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Edge of ReasonFirelei Báez and Edwidge Danticat on "Resistance"Firelei Báez and novelist Danticat discuss resistance as care and creativity, reflecting on how art reshapes struggle into resilience, reframes scarcity as abundance, and reclaims erased histories. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
2025-11-1130 min
The League of Extraordinary ReadersThe Farming of Bones by Edwidge Danticat | Anti-Intellectualism, Literacy & the State of Book ClubsDive into The Farming of Bones by Edwidge Danticat with The League of Extraordinary Readers. We unpack themes of anti-intellectualism, literacy, and book culture through the lens of Black literature and community.In this week’s episode of The League of Extraordinary Readers, we dive into The Farming of Bonesby Edwidge Danticat. What starts as a literary discussion unfolds into a conversation about anti-intellectualism, literacy, and the modern state of book clubs.We explore how Danticat’s storytelling captures history, identity, and the complexities of the Black diaspora. If you love...
2025-11-041h 22
This is How We Create178. How to Dance with Fear in Your Creative Life - Edwidge DanticatWhat does it take to keep creating, even after dozens of false starts? In this deeply insightful encore episode, I'm sharing my conversation with the legendary author Edwidge Danticat. Edwidge shares how she found her own voice as a writer and offers a candid look into her artistic practice today. We talk about the "dance with fear", and the "20 notebooks of false starts" for her current novel, and the practical mindset it takes to push through creative blocks. This is a powerful and reassuring conversation for any creator who has ever felt stalled by perfectionism or...
2025-10-1024 min
fiction/non/fictionS9 Ep. 2: Edwidge Danticat on Haiti and Trump, Past and PresentAcclaimed fiction writer and essayist Edwidge Danticat joins co-hosts Whitney Terrell and V.V. Ganeshananthan to discuss her new essay collection We’re Alone. Danticat reflects on misinformation and xenophobic rhetoric, such as Trump’s false 2024 debate claim about Haitian immigrants eating pets in Springfield, Ohio, and how that type of language and propaganda has broadened during Trump’s second term to include even more immigrant communities. She recounts what she has learned about conditions in prisons and detention centers during her visits there and also considers today’s immigration policies, including the Trump administration’s attempts to end Temporary...
2025-10-0944 min
fiction/non/fictionEdwidge Danticat on Haiti and Trump, Past and PresentAcclaimed fiction writer and essayist Edwidge Danticat joins co-hosts Whitney Terrell and V.V. Ganeshananthan to discuss her new essay collection We’re Alone. Danticat reflects on misinformation and xenophobic rhetoric, such as Trump’s false 2024 debate claim about Haitian immigrants eating pets in Springfield, Ohio, and how that type of language and propaganda has broadened during Trump’s second term to include even more immigrant communities. She recounts what she has learned about conditions in prisons and detention centers during her visits there and also considers today’s immigration policies, including the Trump administration’s attempts to end Temporary...
2025-10-0948 min
The New Yorker: FictionEdwidge Danticat Reads Zadie SmithEdwidge Danticat joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss “Two Men Arrive in a Village,” by Zadie Smith, which was published in The New Yorker in 2016. Danticat, a MacArthur Fellow and a winner of the Vilcek Prize in Literature, has published six books of fiction, including “Breath, Eyes, Memory,” “The Farming of Bones,” “Claire of the Sea Light,” and “Everything Inside.” Her memoir “Brother, I’m Dying” won the National Book Award and the Dayton Literary Peace Prize, among others. She has been publishing fiction and nonfiction in The New Yorker since 1999.
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2025-06-0144 min
Poured OverLaura Pegram, Edwidge Danticat and Princess Joy L. Perry on SING THE TRUTHLaura Pegram, Edwidge Danticat and Princess Joy L. Perry joined us live at B&N Upper West Side to celebrate 15 Years of The Kweli Journal. Listen in as they chat about using language to build community, short stories vs novels, witnessing emerging talent and more with host Miwa Messer. This episode of Poured Over was hosted by Miwa Messer and mixed by Harry Liang. New episodes land Tuesdays and Thursdays (with occasional Saturdays) here and on your favorite podcast app. Featured Books (Episode): Sing the Truth: The Kweli Journal Short Story Collectio...
2025-05-2946 min
Carolina ReadsNight Women by Edwidge DanticatWelcome back to a new season of Carolina Reads! In this episode I share Night Women by Edwidge Danticat. Theme: Motherhood, Sacrifice, SurvivalHappy Mother’s Day!
2025-05-1109 min
Book PublicBook Public: 'We're Alone' by Edwidge DanticatEdwidge Danticat discusses her essay collection, We're Alone. The essays cover subjects like environmental catastrophe, the traumas of colonialism, motherhood, and the complexities of resilience.
2025-03-0723 min
The Book ShowThe Book Show | Edwidge Danticat – We’re Alone: EssaysEdwidge Danticat has enriched and enlarged American literature with her novels and short stories about Haiti. Her latest, “We’re Alone,” is an essay collection that explores her profound and enduring connection to Haiti, as well as a deep concern for her family, her beloved island and the world.
2024-11-0527 minThe Book ShowThe Book Show | Edwidge Danticat – We’re Alone: EssaysEdwidge Danticat has enriched and enlarged American literature with her novels and short stories about Haiti. Her latest, “We’re Alone,” is an essay collection that explores her profound and enduring connection to Haiti, as well as a deep concern for her family, her beloved island and the world.
2024-11-0527 min
Memoir NationHow Being Fascinated and Daunted Can Drive Your Writing, featuring Edwidge DanticatIt could be said of this week’s guest that she, like the title of this week’s show, is fascinating and daunting. And that this is a pull toward the things we’re interested in, that we want to dive more deeply into, is the subject of this week’s show. Edwidge Danticat is a powerhouse in the literary world who’s written about immigration and poverty, exile and political upheaval, and so much more. There’s much to learn from the wisdom of a writer like Danticat who has been well and widely published for three decades, and who offe...
2024-10-2832 minMemoir NationHow Being Fascinated and Daunted Can Drive Your Writing, featuring Edwidge DanticatIt could be said of this week’s guest that she, like the title of this week’s show, is fascinating and daunting. And that this is a pull toward the things we’re interested in, that we want to dive more deeply into, is the subject of this week’s show. Edwidge Danticat is a powerhouse in the literary world who’s written about immigration and poverty, exile and political upheaval, and so much more. There’s much to learn from the wisdom of a writer like Danticat who has been well and widely published for three decades, and who offe...
2024-10-2836 min
First Draft: A Dialogue on WritingEdwidge Danticat (Returns)Edwidge Danticat is the author of several books, including Breath, Eyes, Memory, an Oprah Book Club selection, Krik? Krak!, a National Book Award finalist, The Farming of Bones, The Dew Breaker, Brother, I’m Dying, Create Dangerously, Claire of the Sea Light, The Art of Death, Everything Inside, a Reese’s Book Club selection and National Book Critics Circle Awards winner. She is also the editor of The Butterfly's Way: Voices from the Haitian Dyaspora in the United States, Best American Essays 2011, Haiti Noir, and Haiti Noir 2. She has written seven books for children and young adults. Her new essay collect...
2024-10-211h 02
Behind the Mic With Kirkus ReviewsWE'RE ALONE by Edwidge Danticat, read by Edwidge DanticatEdwidge Danticat’s audiobook of essays testifies to a close reader and observer of human affairs. Host Jo Reed and AudioFile’s Alan Minskoff discuss how the famed Haitian American novelist, memoirist, and children’s author is clearly a practiced narrator. Her essays range from the horrors of racism, the toll of hurricanes, and the inequity of climate change to the appreciation of writers she admires. A fine collection that creates an indelible portrait of a keen and remarkable mind. Read our review of the audiobook at our website. Published by Recorded Books.
2024-10-0406 min
Big Books & Bold Ideas with Kerri MillerTalking Volumes: Edwidge Danticat on ‘We’re Alone’It was a celebration at St. Paul’s Fitzgerald Theater Tuesday night, as the 25th season of Talking Volumes launched with Haitian-born writer Edwidge Danticat.She joined host Kerri Miller on stage to talk about the vulnerability inherent in her new book of essays, “We’re Alone.” They also talked about the challenges facing the Haitian-American community at this moment and how Danticat’s own family — who moved to American when she was 12 — faced the immigrant journey. Speaking of the violent threats facing the Haitian commun...
2024-09-191h 30
NPR's Book of the DayIn 'We're Alone,' Edwidge Danticat's essays extend an invitation to be togetherEdwidge Danticat is known for her novels and short stories. But her new book, We're Alone, is a collection of eight wide-ranging essays. These essays touch on intimate and historical topics: Danticat's past and present, the history of Haiti, parenting, migration and the author's connection to her literary heroes. In today's episode, Danticat speaks with NPR's Ari Shapiro about the complexity of nostalgia and the Haiti she remembers.To listen to Book of the Day sponsor-free and support NPR's book coverage, sign up for Book of the Day+ at plus.npr.org/bookofthedayLearn more about...
2024-09-1008 min
Are We There Yet?Edwidge DanticatIt was an honor to interview Edwidge Danticat, one of my favorite writers on death, dying, and grief about her early losses and what she is trying to achieve in her work. We spoke about her new book "We're Alone," a collection of essays about her life as a writer straddling her life as a Haitian immigrant with strong ties to her home country. I also asked about some of her earliest books ("Breath, Eyes, Memory," "Brother, I'm Dying," and "Krik? Krak!") because she has written so beautifully about death and loss, both through the eyes of a child...
2024-09-0544 min
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Title: We're Alone
Author: Edwidge Danticat
Narrator: Edwidge Danticat
Format: mp3
Length: 4 hrs and 35 mins
Release date: 09-03-24
Ratings: 5 out of 5 stars, 10 ratings
Genres: Essays
Publisher's Summary:
Tracing a loose arc from Edwidge Danticat’s childhood to the COVID-19 pandemic and recent events in Haiti, the essays gathered in We’re Alone include personal narrative, reportage, and tributes to mentors and heroes such as Toni Morrison, Paule Marshall, Gabriel García Márquez, and James Baldwin that explore several abiding themes: environmental catastrophe, the traumas of colonialism, motherhood, and the co...
2024-09-034h 35Poured OverEdwidge Danticat on WE'RE ALONEWe're Alone by Edwidge Danticat is a collection of essays that combines personal stories with global themes. Danticat joins us to talk about evolution in storytelling, the role of community in writing, the joy of connection and more with Miwa Messer, host of Poured Over. This episode of Poured Over was hosted by Miwa Messer and mixed by Harry Liang. New episodes land Tuesdays and Thursdays (with occasional Saturdays) here and on your favorite podcast app. Featured Books (Episode): We're Alone by Edwidge Danticat Krik? Krak! by Edwidge Danticat The Farming of Bones by Edwidge Danticat Ev...
2024-08-2750 min
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2024-08-2000 min
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2024-08-0800 min
Get Hooked On Your Day With A Breakthrough Full Audiobook.After the Dance: A Walk Through Carnival in Jacmel, Haiti (Updated) by Edwidge DanticatPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/670459to listen full audiobooks.
Title: After the Dance: A Walk Through Carnival in Jacmel, Haiti (Updated)
Author: Edwidge Danticat
Narrator: Edwidge Danticat
Format: Unabridged Audiobook
Length: 3 hours 41 minutes
Release date: November 21, 2023
Genres: Memoirs
Publisher's Summary:
In After the Dance, one of Haiti’s most renowned daughters returns to her homeland, taking readers on a stunning, exquisitely rendered journey beyond the hedonistic surface of Carnival and into its deep heart. Edwidge Danticat had long been scared off from Carnival by a loved one, who spun tales of people dislocating hips from gyrating with too much ab...
2023-11-213h 41
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Title: After the Dance (Updated)
Author: Edwidge Danticat
Narrator: Edwidge Danticat
Format: mp3
Length: 3 hrs and 41 mins
Release date: 11-21-23
Ratings: 5 out of 5 stars, 1 rating
Genres: Caribbean
Publisher's Summary:
One of Haiti’s most renowned daughters returns to her homeland, taking listeners on a stunning, exquisitely rendered journey beyond the hedonistic surface of Carnival and into its deep heart. Edwidge Danticat had long been scared off from Carnival by a loved one, who spun tales of people dislocating hips from gyrating with too much abandon, losing their voices from si...
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Title: After the Dance: A Walk Through Carnival in Jacmel, Haiti (Updated)
Author: Edwidge Danticat
Narrator: Edwidge Danticat
Format: Unabridged Audiobook
Length: 3 hours 41 minutes
Release date: November 21, 2023
Genres: Essays & Anthologies
Publisher's Summary:
In After the Dance, one of Haiti’s most renowned daughters returns to her homeland, taking readers on a stunning, exquisitely rendered journey beyond the hedonistic surface of Carnival and into its deep heart. Edwidge Danticat had long been scared off from Carnival by a loved one, who spun tales of people dislocating hips from gyrating with too mu...
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Title: After the Dance (Updated)
Author: Edwidge Danticat
Narrator: Edwidge Danticat
Format: mp3
Length: 3 hrs and 41 mins
Release date: 11-21-23
Ratings: 5 out of 5 stars, 1 rating
Genres: Caribbean
Publisher's Summary:
One of Haiti’s most renowned daughters returns to her homeland, taking listeners on a stunning, exquisitely rendered journey beyond the hedonistic surface of Carnival and into its deep heart. Edwidge Danticat had long been scared off from Carnival by a loved one, who spun tales of people dislocating hips from gyrating with too much abandon, losing their voices from si...
2023-11-213h 41Listen to New Full Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, MemoirsAfter the Dance: A Walk Through Carnival in Jacmel, Haiti (Updated) by Edwidge DanticatPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/670459to listen full audiobooks.
Title: After the Dance: A Walk Through Carnival in Jacmel, Haiti (Updated)
Author: Edwidge Danticat
Narrator: Edwidge Danticat
Format: Unabridged Audiobook
Length: 3 hours 41 minutes
Release date: November 21, 2023
Genres: Memoirs
Publisher's Summary:
In After the Dance, one of Haiti’s most renowned daughters returns to her homeland, taking readers on a stunning, exquisitely rendered journey beyond the hedonistic surface of Carnival and into its deep heart. Edwidge Danticat had long been scared off from Carnival by a loved one, who spun tales of people dislocating hips from gyrating with too much ab...
2023-11-213h 41
SundialAward-winning author Edwidge Danticat on life in Haiti, Miami and the stories that made herEdwidge Danticat is the author of several books including Krik Krak and Brother, I’m Dying, which were finalists for the National Book Awards. She was born in Haiti and calls Miami home. She’s being honored at the Miami Book Fair’s 40th anniversary celebration.
2023-11-1348 min
La Palabra en RadioPatricia Cabarcas habla de tres novelistas afrolatinoamericanas: Mayra Santos, Adelaida Fernández y Edwidge DanticatPatricia Cabarcas habla de tres novelistas afrolatinoamericanas: Mayra Santos, Adelaida Fernández y Edwidge Danticat.
#PodcastLaPalabraEnRadio Conversamos con Patricia Cabarcas, una destacada estudiante del Doctorado en Literatura de la Universidad Tecnológica de Pereira y docente activa de la Secretaría de Educación del Distrito de Bogotá. También, pertenece al Colectivo Red Eleggua y al Grupo de Investigación en Estudios Regionales sobre Literatura y Cultura, específicamente en la línea de Literatura y contexto social
Su investigación se centra en el profundo estudio de la reescritura de la memoria como legado y r...
2023-10-1533 min
The Archive ProjectEdwidge Danticat, 2022 (Rebroadcast)In this episode of The Archive Project, we feature a talk from Edwidge Danticat from Portland Arts & Lectures on May 12, 2022.
Danticat became nationally recognized with her debut novel published in 1994 Breath, Eyes, Memory which was an Oprah Book Club selection and national bestseller. Since then, she has gone on to publish more than a dozen books in multiple genres—novels, short fiction, memoir, literary criticism, young adult, and children’s books—many which were bestsellers including the Farming of Bones, The Dew Breaker, and Claire of the Sea of Light.
In her talk, Danticat gives an int...
2023-09-1855 min
Latino USAResistance And Loss In The Age Of COVID-19 With Edwidge DanticatAccording to Haitian-American author Edwidge Danticat, stories are a way of finding inspiration and comfort during the times we’re living through. Her award-winning writing portrays the immigrant experience, Haitian-American identity and loss. In conversation with Maria Hinojosa, Danticat dives into the history of resistance to the police violence that was all around her as a young adult in New York City, the loss of her own uncle who died at the hands of immigration authorities, and how she's making sense of the current moment. The episode originally aired in 2020.See omnystudio.com/listener for pr...
2023-07-0429 min
Story Time with Avant-garde Books, LLCUntwine: A Novel (Excerpt) by Edwidge Danticat
A haunting and mesmerizing story about sisterhood, family, love, and loss by literary luminary Edwidge Danticat.
Excerpt taken from Read 180: Real Book (2017)by Houghton, Mifflin, Harcourt
Giselle Boyer and her identical twin, Isabelle, are as close as sisters can be, even as their family seems to be unraveling. Then the Boyers have a tragic encounter that will shatter everyone's world forever. Giselle wakes up in the hospital, injured and unable to speak or move. Trapped in the prison of her own body, Giselle must revisit her past in order to understand how...
2023-07-0113 minThe Archive ProjectEdwidge Danticat, 2022In this episode of The Archive Project, we feature a talk from Edwidge Danticat from Portland Arts & Lectures on May 12, 2022.
Danticat became nationally recognized with her debut novel published in 1994 Breath, Eyes, Memory which was an Oprah Book Club selection and national bestseller. Since then, she has gone on to publish more than a dozen books in multiple genres—novels, short fiction, memoir, literary criticism, young adult, and children’s books—many which were bestsellers including the Farming of Bones, The Dew Breaker, and Claire of the Sea of Light.
In her talk, Danticat gives an int...
2023-05-1555 min
This is How We Create39. How to Identify Your Artistic Process - Edwidge DanticatHow do you keep yourself motivated with each project you're taking on? What patterns or processes do you have to launch you into creating new work? How do you motivate yourself past by one, five, 10, 15 and even 20 false starts? How do you motivate yourself to get it done after those failed beginnings? Today, one of my favorite writer, Edwidge Danticat joins on the show to talk about how she became a writer. As an aside as a young Haitian girl, reading Edwidge's book inspired me to start thinking that I could be a creator. Edwidge...
2022-08-0924 min
FormativeEdwidge and Alyson: Let the Soul RestMost of us will spend our whole lives in pursuit of ourselves: our passions, our identities, our voices. How is that experience changed by economic hardship, by physical displacement, by the languages we hear and speak? In this episode of Formative, celebrated Haitian-American novelist Edwidge Danticat talks with young artist Alyson about resilience through community, story, and documenting our inner worlds.
2022-06-0733 min
Book SocietyEdwidge Danticat and I talk about A Small Place by Jamaica KincaidEdwidge is an amazing writer and brilliant thinker. In this episode, I just try to keep up with limited success. Buy A Small Place:https://www.amazon.com/Small-Place-Jamaica-Kincaid/dp/0374527075/ref=sr_1_1?crid=3GERRCMMYZ7YJ&keywords=a+small+place&qid=1651179527&sprefix=a+small+place%2Caps%2C283&sr=8-1Learn More About Edwidge Danticat:https://edwidgedanticat.com
2022-04-2942 min
LMN Podcast - Palavra de Mulher PretaPALAVRA DE MULHER PRETA | EP 22 EDWIDGE DANTICATOUÇA, PALAVRA DE MULHER PRETA NO EPISÓDIO DE HOJE EDWIDGE DANTICAT LIVRO: CLARA DA LUZ DO MAR TÍTULO: DI MWEN, CONTA PRA MIM | PÁGINAS 194 E 195 TODAVIA EDITORA | TAG LIVROS - EXPERIÊNCIAS LITERÁRIAS, 2021 📌A primeira temporada do podcast Palavra de Mulher Preta, desenvolvido pelo Projeto e Editora Lendo Mulheres Negras foi contemplado pelo Prêmio Riachão – Projetos de Pequeno Porte, da Fundação Gregório de Mattos, Prefeitura Municipal de Salvador, por meio da Lei de Emergência Cultural Aldir Blanc, destinado pela Secretaria Especial da Cu...
2022-04-0306 min
Another Life with Joy Marie ClarksonThe PloughRead: The Lion’s Mouth by Edwidge DanticatEdwidge Danticat on the way mass shootings have made violent death seem normal, and how to resist it.Read the article.
2022-03-2918 min
QuotomaniaQuotomania 146: Edwidge DanticatToday’s Quotation is care of Edwidge Danticat.
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2022-02-2401 min
The Fabrice Guerrier Show#19 Edwidge Danticat: The artist and his time, haitian futurism and the shifting of the worldEdwidge Danticat is a Haitian American novelist, short story writer and essayist. She is the author of several books, including Breath, Eyes, Memory, an Oprah Book Club selection, Krik? Krak!, a National Book Award finalist, The Farming of Bones, The Dew Breaker, Create Dangerously, Claire of the Sea Light, and Everything Inside. She is also the editor of The Butterfly's Way: Voices from the Haitian Dyaspora in the United States, Best American Essays 2011, Haiti Noir and Haiti Noir 2. She has written seven books for children and young adults, Anacaona, Behind the Mountains, Eight Days, The Last Mapou, Mama's Nightingale, Unt...
2022-01-211h 03
Another Life with Joy Marie ClarksonThe PloughRead: Home Is Not Just a Place by Edwidge DanticatEdwidge Danticat on the stories that anchor us, the homes we build with words that no separation can take away.Read it here: http://www.plough.com/en/topics/justice/social-justice/immigration/home-is-not-just-a-place
2021-11-0910 min
Fiordo EditorialFragmento de Todo lo que hay dentro, de Edwidge DanticatEdwidge Danticat es una de las voces más punzantes de la literatura contemporánea norteamericana. Todo lo que hay dentro reúne ocho de sus relatos publicados en las revistas literarias más prestigiosas del mundo angloparlante, entre ellas Granta, The New Yorker y The Washington Post Magazine. En 2020 el volumen obtuvo el premio del National Book Critics Circle de Estados Unidos y el Story Prize, lo que convirtió a la autora en la primera persona en recibir ese reconocimiento por segunda vez.
Sensibles y a la vez feroces, estos cuentos agitan la mirada progresista y bieni...
2021-08-3103 min
WRITING HOMEs2, e2 "more joy" | Edwidge Danticat“What would goodness be like? What would more joy be like?” – Edwidge Danticat
Tami and Kaiama connect with the illustrious Haitian-African-American author Edwidge Danticat. In this conversation, the three grapple with how they are emotionally processing the pandemic through writing and reading literature. Edwidge speaks on whether literature survives on suffering, her newfound quest to find goodness within her work, and whether she’s guilty of being a "serial killer of her characters." As Edwidge discusses the precarity of writing at home during the pandemic, she reveals how she navigates her toughest critics: her daughters.
Edwidge...
2021-07-1542 min
For PosterityS4/ Ep1: Everything Inside with Edwidge DanticatJune is #ReadCaribbean month and I'm here for the literary celebration! With novelist, writer, activist Edwidge Danticat as my guest for this Season 4 opener, we share stories of the past even as we discuss the now. We talk about storytelling alongside Black-girl-motherhood in 2021. We discuss memory and migration stories. We discuss the arc of her writing, hope, Haiti, Jamaica, Jamaica Kincaid’s “Girl” (1978), Charles Mingus’ “Haitian Fight Song” (1957), a little Shabba Ranks, and Everything Inside (2019) right back to Breath, Eyes, Memory (1994). Tune in. This is For Posterity.
2021-06-141h 16
First Comes Love Then Comes MarriageS2 Ep. 5 Reading Rainbow (with author Edwidge Danticat)If you have ever seen a butterfly in the sky today Lindsey and Aaron Jackson will go twice as high. It’s book club day with prestigious guest author Edwidge Danticat. They will be having a conversation about her book “Everything Inside”. Edwidge Danticat is an award winning Haitian-American writer who’s books have been featured on Oprah’s book club and Reese’s book club. The book “Everything Inside” has won the National Book Critics Circle Award, The Story Prize, and Vilcek Foundation Prize in Literature. So join the conversation let us know what you think on the voicemail (347) TRU-LOVE
2021-04-161h 05
How To ProceedEdwidge DanticatIn this episode, the Haitian-American writer Edwidge Danticat talks to our guest interviewer, writer and editor John Freeman, about mourning and death, about birds and migration, about literary ancestors - and Toni Morrison.Read more about Danticat, Freeman and everything they talked about in our show notes. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
2021-03-301h 10
Ubud Writers & Readers FestivalKEMBALI20 Podcast | Edwidge Danticat: Everything InsideEdwidge Danticat’s latest book of short stories, Everything Inside, is set in Port-au-Prince, Miami, and beyond. It reflects on community, family, and love, and how people come to terms with death, …
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2021-03-161h 03
Ubud Writers & Readers Festival PodcastKEMBALI20 Podcast | Edwidge Danticat: Everything InsideEdwidge Danticat’s latest book of short stories, Everything Inside, is set in Port-au-Prince, Miami, and beyond. It reflects on community, family, and love, and how people come to terms with death, of both their loved ones and their own. Edwidge will discuss her work, her life, Haiti, America, and immigrant stories.
Featuring Edwidge Danticat and Cynthia Dewi Oka.
2021-03-151h 03
GO Between the Covers4. Edwidge Danticat on the Importance of Being SeenAward-winning author Edwidge Danticat shares her latest novel Everything Inside, a collection of vividly imagined stories about community, family, love and her Haitian roots. Known as one of the greatest writers of all time, Edwidge was only 25 years old when her first novel was selected for Oprah’s Book Club.
Our host Ann Bocock sits down with Edwidge Danticat to discuss her numerous works of fiction and non-fiction. Danticat shares how the massive 2010 earthquake in Haiti has influenced her writing and what she’s learned about death through her books, The Art of Death and Brother, I’m Dyin...
2021-03-0124 min
Another Life with Joy Marie ClarksonNot Just Nuclear by Edwidge DanticatEdwidge Danticat: Families are elders long buried and generations yet unborn.
2021-02-2013 min
A Mighty Blaze PodcastSeason 1, Episode 3: EDWIDGE DANTICATHer writing has been called "powerful," "heartbreaking," "profound," and "masterful." In this episode, we'll hear insights from beloved Haitian-American novelist Edwidge Danticat, author of THE DEW BREAKER, BROTHER I'M DYING, BREATH, EYES, MEMORY, and so many more. Ms. Danitcat talks to fellow writer Nancy Johnson, author of THE KINDEST LIE, about their writing processes and the special joys and challenges faced by American writers of color. Hosted by Trisha Blanchet
2021-02-0153 min
Spedup Conversation With TylerEdwidge Danticat on Haitian Art and LiteratureEdwidge Danticat left Haiti when she was 12, she says, but Haiti never left her. At 14 she began writing stories about the people and culture she loved, and now is an internationally acclaimed novelist and short story writer as well a MacArthur Genius Fellow. Rather than holding herself out as an expert or sociologist on Haiti, she seeks to treat her characters and culture with nuance and show the beauty and complexity of the place she calls home. She joined Tyler to discuss the reasons Haitian identity and culture will likely persist in America, the vibrant Haitian...
2020-12-1147 min
Get Hooked On Into A Binge-Worthy Full Audiobook Right Now.The Decameron Project: 29 New Stories from the Pandemic by The New York TimesPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/451315to listen full audiobooks.
Title: The Decameron Project: 29 New Stories from the Pandemic
Author: The New York Times
Narrator: Alex Allwine, Tommy Orange, Deepti Gupta, Matthew Lloyd Davies, Lameece Issaq, Uzodinma Iweala, Kevin R. Free, Rachel Kushner, Rebecca Lowman, David Mitchell, Edwidge Danticat, Robin Miles, Dennis Boutsikaris
Format: Unabridged Audiobook
Length: 6 hours 14 minutes
Release date: November 10, 2020
Genres: Essays & Anthologies
Publisher's Summary:
A stunning collection of short stories originally commissioned by The New York Times Magazine as the COVID-19 pandemic swept the world, from twenty-nine authors including Margaret Atwood, Tommy Orange, Edwidge Danticat, this year's...
2020-11-106h 14Download Top Full Audiobooks in Literature, Essays & AnthologiesThe Decameron Project: 29 New Stories from the Pandemic by The New York TimesPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/451315to listen full audiobooks.
Title: The Decameron Project: 29 New Stories from the Pandemic
Author: The New York Times
Narrator: Alex Allwine, Tommy Orange, Deepti Gupta, Matthew Lloyd Davies, Lameece Issaq, Uzodinma Iweala, Kevin R. Free, Rachel Kushner, Rebecca Lowman, David Mitchell, Edwidge Danticat, Robin Miles, Dennis Boutsikaris
Format: Unabridged Audiobook
Length: 6 hours 14 minutes
Release date: November 10, 2020
Genres: Essays & Anthologies
Publisher's Summary:
A stunning collection of short stories originally commissioned by The New York Times Magazine as the COVID-19 pandemic swept the world, from twenty-nine authors including Margaret Atwood, Tommy Orange, Edwidge Danticat, this year's...
2020-11-106h 14
The Literary Life with Mitchell KaplanWhat Must Happen Next? Russell Banks, Edwidge Danticat, Richard Blanco, and Fernand Amandi on the Current ElectionPost-election, there are still urgent questions of the political and legal moment that must be addressed. Mitchell Kaplan is joined by Russell Banks, Edwidge Danticat, Richard Blanco, and Fernand R. Amandi to discuss what just happened and what must happen next, especially on how the Democratic party can connect with Trump voters across America.RUSSELL BANKS, twice a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, is one of America’s most prestigious fiction writers, a past president of the International Parliament of Writers, and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. His work has been translated into twe...
2020-11-0955 min
Conversations with TylerEdwidge Danticat on Haitian Art and LiteratureEdwidge Danticat left Haiti when she was 12, she says, but Haiti never left her. At 14 she began writing stories about the people and culture she loved, and now is an internationally acclaimed novelist and short story writer as well a MacArthur Genius Fellow. Rather than holding herself out as an expert or sociologist on Haiti, she seeks to treat her characters and culture with nuance and show the beauty and complexity of the place she calls home. She joined Tyler to discuss the reasons Haitian identity and culture will likely persist in America, the vibrant Haitian art...
2020-11-0451 minThe Literary Life with Mitchell KaplanEdwidge Danticat, on “Everything Inside,” Her Award-Winning Short-Fiction Collection, an Encore EpisodeEdwidge Danticat, the first two-time winner of The Story Prize, sat with her long-time friend Mitchell Kaplan, for a moving conversation last year. “Everything Inside” now out in paperback, has been selected by Reese Witherspoon as her Hello Sunshine book club pick for August. Host: Mitchell KaplanProducer: Carmen LucasEditor: Justin Alvarez, Lit Hub Radiohttps://booksandbooks.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
2020-08-0753 min
shasmertaThe Farming of Bones, Edwidge Danticat-Mengarungi Memori, Menguak Trauma KolektifEdwidge Danticat sering dikenal sebagai penulis pascakolonial. Sebagai penulis keturunan Haiti yang tinggal di Amerika, isu tersebut tentu saja sangat dekat dengannya. Haiti sebagai kampung halaman juga tidak lepas dari pengamatannya. Sejarah bangsa nenek moyangnya tersebut kemudian diangkat dalam novelnya yang berjudul The Farming of Bones yang berhasil meraih American Book Award. Sejarah yang memuat sisi traumatis, hingga masyarakat pun enggan untuk membicarakannya lagi. Namun Danticat melalui novel historical fiction yang diterbitkan pada tahun 1998 ini dengan detail mencoba untuk kembali mengarungi memori akan sejarah yang kelam.
Nah, dalam episode kali ini, Shasmerta bersama @zietha_aa mencoba mengeksplor l...
2020-08-0134 min
Medam yo ranse!#18 | Edwidge Danticat et La mesure des existencesA la lumière des mobilisations contre les violences policières qui remettent au centre la questions Noire que ce soit en Amerique du Nord ou en France, l’Histoire et le destin d’Haïti éclaire plus que jamais la condition Noire, et l’antagonisme historique, persistant et indispensable entre la suprématie blanche et la liberation Noire .
Pour reprendre les mots de Toni Morrison, “We die. That may be the meaning of life. But we do language. That may be the measure of our lives"
« Nous mourrons. C’est sans doute le sens de la vie. Mais...
2020-07-1452 minThe Archive ProjectEdwidge Danticat, 2010 (Rebroadcast)Three months after the catastrophic earthquake in Port-au-Prince, Haitian American writer Edwidge Danticat begins her lecture with a proverb from the country she grew up in: “We remember, but we move forward.” She mentions Haiti’s nickname, terre glissée or “slippery ground,” and expounds on the metaphoric and literal connotations of that phrase. With the devastation still on everyone’s mind, Danticat tells of both her own and her family’s experiences during and after the earthquake, mentioning that her cousin Maxo was killed. She witnessed bodies in the rubble and an “altered human landscape” of so many people with injurie...
2020-07-0154 min
Latino USAResistance And Loss In The Age Of COVID-19 With Edwidge DanticatAccording to Haitian American author Edwidge Danticat, stories are a way of finding inspiration and comfort during the times we're living through. Her award-winning writing portrays the immigrant experience, Haitian American identity, and loss. In conversation with Maria Hinojosa, Danticat dives into the history of resistance to the police violence that was all around her as a young adult in New York City, the loss of her own uncle who died at the hands of immigration authorities, and how she's making sense of the current moment.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
2020-06-1929 min
Latino USA TEST (do not use)Resistance And Loss In The Age Of COVID-19 With Edwidge DanticatAccording to Haitian American author Edwidge Danticat, stories are a way of finding inspiration and comfort during the times we're living through. Her award-winning writing portrays the immigrant experience, Haitian American identity, and loss. In conversation with Maria Hinojosa, Danticat dives into the history of resistance to the police violence that was all around her as a young adult in New York City, the loss of her own uncle who died at the hands of immigration authorities, and how she's making sense of the current moment.
2020-06-1930 min
ReadMore PodcastEpisode 043 - Edwidge DanticatWriter Edwidge Danticat discusses living and writing during quarantine, her latest short story collection, Everything Inside, and what legendary authors Toni Morrison and Paule Marshall meant to her.
2020-04-2426 min
The Quarantine TapesThe Quarantine Tapes 018: Edwidge DanticatEdwidge Danticat, author of “Breath, Eyes, Memory” and “Everything Inside” converses with Paul about the fragility of life and proximity of death in episode 018 of The Quarantine Tapes.
2020-04-1529 min
Toure ShowEdwidge Danticat—I Love To WriteEdwidge Danticat is one of the great novelists of our time and an immigrant from Haiti who looks at America in a really unique way. She’s a master of the craft with lots to teach anyone who wants to understand how to be a better writer or anyone who wants to know what great writing is all about. Patreon.com/toureshow Instagram @toureshow Twitter: @toure Toure Show Ep 119 Host & Writer: Toure Senior Producer: Jackie Garofano Assistant Producer: Adell Coleman Editor: Ryan Woodhall Photographers: Chuck Marcus and Shanta Covington Booker: Claudia Jean The House: DCP Entertainment See aca...
2020-03-0438 min
Beyond the Page: The Best of the Sun Valley Writers’ Conference2018: Literary Immigration: A Conversation with Edwidge DanticatIn one way or another, from the moment she left Haiti to settle in Brooklyn, New York, at age 12, Edwidge Danticat has been writing stories (prize-winning novels, memoirs, and essays) about the experience and effects of immigration. In conversation with Jeffrey Brown of the PBS NewsHour, she will talk about the ways that first seismic journey in her life has shaped all the journeys she has lived and written since. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
2020-02-1628 min
The Avid Reader ShowEverything Inside Edwidge DanticatGood afternoon everyone and welcome to another edition of The Avid Reader. Today our guest is Edwidge Danticat. Her collection of short stories, Everything Inside was released last month by Knopf. Edwidge has won the Pushcart Prize, the Pen/Faulkner award the American Book Award.Her novels include The Art of Death, Claire of the Sea Light, Brother, I’m Dying, Breath, Eyes, Memory. The Farming of Bones, Behind the Mountain and the short story collection The Dew Breaker.
Her work has also appeared in the NYT, Time, the New Yorker Harpers and many others.Ever...
2019-09-091h 00
The Literary Life with Mitchell KaplanEdwidge Danticat on “Everything Inside,” her anticipated collection of vividly imagined stories about community, family, and love“I have been working on these stories for a long time, some of them are more recent. I really love that in a short story you can have sort of a limited universe, there’s so much economy and so much layering. I keep working on them no matter what else I’m doing,” Edwidge Danticat. “Everything Inside” is an eight-story collection with the common themes of diaspora, love and Danticat’s birthplace, Haiti. She‘ll share how it all came together with her long-time friend, Mitchell Kaplan, on this episode of The Literary Life. Recorded at Books & Books in Coral Gables...
2019-09-0653 min
Audio – Lannan PodcastsEdwidge Danticat with Aja Monet, 27 March 2019 – AudioRecorded at the Lensic Theater in Santa Fe, New Mexico on March 27, 2019.
Edwidge Danticat is the author of several books, including Krik? Krak!, a collection of short stories that encompass both the cruelties and the high ideals of Haitian life. Danticat’s 2004 novel The Dew Breaker spins a series of related stories around a shadowy central figure, a Haitian immigrant to the United States who reveals to his artist daughter that he is not, as she believes, a prison escapee but a former prison guard and skilled torturer.
When asked about being a ro...
2019-03-291h 18ReadMore PodcastEpisode 028 - Edwidge DanticatAuthor Edwidge Danticat discusses her latest book, The Art of Death: Writing the Final Story, the impact of the current political climate on artists, and the writers who helped her make sense of her grief following the loss of her mother.
2018-03-1633 minThe New Yorker: FictionJunot Díaz Reads Edwidge DanticatJunot Díaz reads and discusses "Seven," by Edwidge Danticat.
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2017-02-0155 min
Library TalksEdwidge Danticat on Silence, Bridging Audiences, and Participating in StoriesThis week, we're going back into the archives to bring you a conversation with Hatian-American novelist and short story writer Edwidge Danticat. When she came the Library in 2010, she discussed her book CREATE DANGEROUSLY: The Immigrant Artist at Work with NYPL's Paul Holdengraber. Their conversation covered central questions of her book including what it means to be an immigrant and an artist, and to bo be working out of one's homeland.
2016-09-131h 07
A Phone Call From PaulEdwidge Danticat, part two.In part two of Paul Holdengraber's conversation with Edwidge Danticat, the two discuss death, Haiti, and Anne Sexton. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
2015-12-0219 minReadMore PodcastEpisode 001A - Edwidge Danticat - Extended InterviewIn this extended version of the first ReadMore podcast, Edwidge Danticat discusses going to Congress with fellow writer Junot Diaz and being more selective in what she reads as she gets older.
2015-11-2442 min
A Phone Call From PaulEdwidge Danticat, part oneIn part one of this conversation between Paul Holdengraber and Edwidge Danticat, death is discussed in fulsome detail. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
2015-11-2021 minReadMore PodcastEpisode 001 - Edwidge DanticatIn this first episode of the ReadMore podcast, author Edwidge Danticat discusses her latest books, UNTWINE and MAMA'S NIGHTINGALE. She also talks immigration, activism, writing though grief and the one novel she's struggled to read for years.
2015-11-1837 min
First Draft: A Dialogue on WritingFirst Draft: Edwidge DanticatEdwidge Danticat was born in Haiti and moved to Brooklyn when she was 12 years old. She now lives in Miami. She has taught creative writing at the New York University and the University of Miami.She has also worked with filmmakers Patricia Benoit and Jonathan Demme, on projects on Haitian art and documentaries about Haiti Her short stories have appeared in over 25 periodicals and have been anthologized several times. Her work has been translated into numerous other languages, including Japanese, French, Korean, German, Italian, Spanish, and Swedish. Her books include Brother, I'm Dying, Claire of the Sea Light, The Dew...
2015-11-1531 min
Absorb A Binge-Worthy Full Audiobook On Your Commute.Breath, Eyes, Memory by Edwidge DanticatPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/252991to listen full audiobooks.
Title: Breath, Eyes, Memory
Author: Edwidge Danticat
Narrator: Robin Miles
Format: Unabridged Audiobook
Length: 6 hours 8 minutes
Release date: July 24, 2015
Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.27 of Total 22
Ratings of Narrator: 4.7 of Total 10
Genres: LGBTQ+
Publisher's Summary:
At the age of twelve, Sophie Caco is sent from her impoverished Haitian village to New York to be reunited with a mother she barely remembers. There she discovers secrets that no child should ever know, and a legacy of shame that can be healed only when she returns to Haiti—to the women who first re...
2015-07-246h 08Listen To A Uplifting Full Audiobook On Your Commute.Breath, Eyes, Memory by Edwidge DanticatPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/252991to listen full audiobooks.
Title: Breath, Eyes, Memory
Author: Edwidge Danticat
Narrator: Robin Miles
Format: Unabridged Audiobook
Length: 6 hours 8 minutes
Release date: July 24, 2015
Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.27 of Total 22
Ratings of Narrator: 4.7 of Total 10
Genres: Drama
Publisher's Summary:
At the age of twelve, Sophie Caco is sent from her impoverished Haitian village to New York to be reunited with a mother she barely remembers. There she discovers secrets that no child should ever know, and a legacy of shame that can be healed only when she returns to Haiti—to the women who first re...
2015-07-246h 08Feel Your Ears To A Eye-Opening Full Audiobook.Breath, Eyes, Memory by Edwidge DanticatPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/252991to listen full audiobooks.
Title: Breath, Eyes, Memory
Author: Edwidge Danticat
Narrator: Robin Miles
Format: Unabridged Audiobook
Length: 6 hours 8 minutes
Release date: July 24, 2015
Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.27 of Total 22
Ratings of Narrator: 4.7 of Total 10
Genres: Literary Fiction
Publisher's Summary:
At the age of twelve, Sophie Caco is sent from her impoverished Haitian village to New York to be reunited with a mother she barely remembers. There she discovers secrets that no child should ever know, and a legacy of shame that can be healed only when she returns to Haiti—to the women who fi...
2015-07-246h 08Enjoy Amazing Full Audiobooks in Literature, Literary FictionBreath, Eyes, Memory by Edwidge DanticatPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/252991to listen full audiobooks.
Title: Breath, Eyes, Memory
Author: Edwidge Danticat
Narrator: Robin Miles
Format: Unabridged Audiobook
Length: 6 hours 8 minutes
Release date: July 24, 2015
Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.27 of Total 22
Ratings of Narrator: 4.7 of Total 10
Genres: Literary Fiction
Publisher's Summary:
At the age of twelve, Sophie Caco is sent from her impoverished Haitian village to New York to be reunited with a mother she barely remembers. There she discovers secrets that no child should ever know, and a legacy of shame that can be healed only when she returns to Haiti—to the women who fi...
2015-07-246h 08Access Unmissable Full Audiobooks in Fiction, LGBTQ+Breath, Eyes, Memory by Edwidge DanticatPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/252991to listen full audiobooks.
Title: Breath, Eyes, Memory
Author: Edwidge Danticat
Narrator: Robin Miles
Format: Unabridged Audiobook
Length: 6 hours 8 minutes
Release date: July 24, 2015
Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.27 of Total 22
Ratings of Narrator: 4.7 of Total 10
Genres: LGBTQ+
Publisher's Summary:
At the age of twelve, Sophie Caco is sent from her impoverished Haitian village to New York to be reunited with a mother she barely remembers. There she discovers secrets that no child should ever know, and a legacy of shame that can be healed only when she returns to Haiti—to the women who first re...
2015-07-246h 08
Access Top-Rated Full Audiobooks in Fiction, DramaBreath, Eyes, Memory by Edwidge DanticatPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/252991 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Breath, Eyes, Memory Author: Edwidge Danticat Narrator: Robin Miles Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 8 minutes Release date: July 24, 2015 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.27 of Total 22 Ratings of Narrator: 4.7 of Total 10 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: At the age of twelve, Sophie Caco is sent from her impoverished Haitian village to New York to be reunited with a mother she barely remembers. There she discovers secrets that no child should ever know, and a legacy of shame that can be healed only when she returns to Haiti—to the women who fi...
2015-07-2405 minDiscover Top Full Audiobooks in Fiction, HistoricalBreath, Eyes, Memory by Edwidge DanticatPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/252991to listen full audiobooks.
Title: Breath, Eyes, Memory
Author: Edwidge Danticat
Narrator: Robin Miles
Format: Unabridged Audiobook
Length: 6 hours 8 minutes
Release date: July 24, 2015
Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.27 of Total 22
Ratings of Narrator: 4.7 of Total 10
Genres: Historical
Publisher's Summary:
At the age of twelve, Sophie Caco is sent from her impoverished Haitian village to New York to be reunited with a mother she barely remembers. There she discovers secrets that no child should ever know, and a legacy of shame that can be healed only when she returns to Haiti—to the women who first re...
2015-07-246h 08The Archive ProjectEdwidge Danticat, 2010Three months after the catastrophic earthquake in Port-au-Prince, Haitian American writer Edwidge Danticat begins her lecture with a proverb from the country she grew up in: “We remember, but we move forward.” She mentions Haiti’s nickname, terre glissée or “slippery ground,” and expounds on the metaphoric and literal connotations of that phrase. With the devastation still on everyone’s mind, Danticat tells of both her own and her family’s experiences during and after the earthquake, mentioning that her cousin Maxo was killed. She witnessed bodies in the rubble and an “altered human landscape” of so many people with injurie...
2015-02-2651 min
Podcasts de Letras LibresEn palabras de otros: Ana Clavel lee a Edwidge Danticat"En palabras de otros" es un podcast mensual en el que invitamos a escritores a leer en voz alta y comentar cuentos escritos por otros autores y publicados en las páginas de Letras Libres.
En este episodio, Ana Clavel lee el cuento "Entre la piscina y las gardenias", de Edwidge Danticat, que fue publicado en Letras Libres en mayo de 2010 y puede leerse aquí: http://www.letraslibres.com/revista/convivio/entre-la-piscina-y-las-gardenias
Música: "Episode 17: Fishing", de King Imagine and Pankifared, y "Kirchner: Sonata No.2 for piano", int. Russell Sherman.
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2014-12-1527 min
The Drunken Odyssey with John King: A Podcast About the Writing LifeEpisode 78: Edwidge Danticat and Koren Zailckas!On this week’s show, I present my interview with Edwidge Danticat,
and my interview with Koren Zailckas,
plus Samantha Stemler writes about Neil McKenna's The Secret Life of Oscar Wilde.
TEXTS DISCUSSED
2013-12-281h 02
First DraftFirst Cuts from First Draft - Edwidge DanticatEdwidge Danticat was born in Haiti in 1969 and came to the United States when she was twelve years old. She graduated from Barnard College and received an M.F.A. from Brown University. She writes fiction, memoir, non-fiction and essays. Her books include Breath, Eyes Memory, Krik? Krak!, The Farming of Bones, Brother, I’m Dying, The Dew Breaker, Create Dangerously: The Immigrant Artist at Work and her latest novel Claire of the Sea Light. She is the recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship, was awarded the American Book Award for The Farming of Bones. Both Krik? Krak! and Brother, I’m Dy...
2013-07-2207 min
First DraftFirst Draft - Edwidge DanticatEdwidge Danticat was born in Haiti in 1969 and came to the United States when she was twelve years old. She graduated from Barnard College and received an M.F.A. from Brown University. She writes fiction, memoir, non-fiction and essays. Her books include Breath, Eyes Memory, Krik? Krak!, The Farming of Bones, Brother, I’m Dying, The Dew Breaker, Create Dangerously: The Immigrant Artist at Work and her latest novel Claire of the Sea Light. She is the recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship, was awarded the American Book Award for The Farming of Bones. Both Krik? Krak! and Brother, I’m Dy...
2013-07-2229 minThe New Yorker: FictionEdwidge Danticat Reads Jamaica KincaidEdwidge Danticat reads "Girl" and "Wingless," by Jamaica Kincaid.
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2013-03-0736 minThe New Yorker: FictionJunot Diaz Reads Edwidge DanticatJunot Diaz reads Edwidge Danticat's "Water Child."
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2009-12-1637 min
Princeton University PodcastsEdwidge Danticat: "Create Dangerously - The Immigrant Artist at Work" – March 25, 2008Born in Haiti during the brutal Duvalier dictatorship, Edwidge Danticat - whose parents moved to the United States when she was a child, leaving her in the care of relatives - discovered The Word at the foot of family storytellers and in the books of French language writers. As a child, she watched that mixed literary heritage upset as well as comfort her neighbors and countrymen. The staging of an Albert Camus play following a political murder was one of its most striking examples. Inspired by Camus’ landmark essay “Create Dangerously” and his definition of art as “a revolt against everythi...
2008-03-2655 minPrinceton University PodcastsEdwidge Danticat: "Create Dangerously - The Immigrant Artist at Work" – March 25, 2008Born in Haiti during the brutal Duvalier dictatorship, Edwidge Danticat - whose parents moved to the United States when she was a child, leaving her in the care of relatives - discovered The Word at the foot of family storytellers and in the books of French language writers. As a child, she watched that mixed literary heritage upset as well as comfort her neighbors and countrymen. The staging of an Albert Camus play following a political murder was one of its most striking examples. Inspired by Camus’ landmark essay “Create Dangerously” and his definition of art as “a revolt against everythi...
2008-03-2655 min
Discover The Full Audiobook That Keeps Curious Minds Hooked.Krik? Krak! by Edwidge DanticatPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/283458to listen full audiobooks.
Title: Krik? Krak!
Author: Edwidge Danticat
Narrator: Dion Graham, Robin Miles
Format: Unabridged Audiobook
Length: 4 hours 53 minutes
Release date: March 4, 2008
Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 3
Genres: Literary Fiction
Publisher's Summary:
American Book Award-winning author Edwidge Danticat earned a National Book Award nomination for this brilliant collection of stories, which includes Pushcart Prize winner 'Between the Pool and the Gardenias.' A 'remarkably gifted writer' (Publishers Weekly), Danticat examines the brutality of her native Haiti, particularly as it affects women, in tales that soar with raw emotion. 'Spare, elegant and...
2008-03-044h 53Journey Through The Most Transformative Full Audiobook Today!Krik? Krak! by Edwidge DanticatPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/283458to listen full audiobooks.
Title: Krik? Krak!
Author: Edwidge Danticat
Narrator: Dion Graham, Robin Miles
Format: Unabridged Audiobook
Length: 4 hours 53 minutes
Release date: March 4, 2008
Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 3
Genres: Short Stories
Publisher's Summary:
American Book Award-winning author Edwidge Danticat earned a National Book Award nomination for this brilliant collection of stories, which includes Pushcart Prize winner 'Between the Pool and the Gardenias.' A 'remarkably gifted writer' (Publishers Weekly), Danticat examines the brutality of her native Haiti, particularly as it affects women, in tales that soar with raw emotion. 'Spare, elegant and...
2008-03-044h 53Access Top-Rated Full Audiobooks in Literature, Literary FictionKrik? Krak! by Edwidge DanticatPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/283458to listen full audiobooks.
Title: Krik? Krak!
Author: Edwidge Danticat
Narrator: Dion Graham, Robin Miles
Format: Unabridged Audiobook
Length: 4 hours 53 minutes
Release date: March 4, 2008
Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 3
Genres: Literary Fiction
Publisher's Summary:
American Book Award-winning author Edwidge Danticat earned a National Book Award nomination for this brilliant collection of stories, which includes Pushcart Prize winner 'Between the Pool and the Gardenias.' A 'remarkably gifted writer' (Publishers Weekly), Danticat examines the brutality of her native Haiti, particularly as it affects women, in tales that soar with raw emotion. 'Spare, elegant and...
2008-03-044h 53