Wednesday night at 8 on Bibliocracy Radio, KPFK 90.7
FM: CHIMAMANDA NGOZI ADICHIE. My guest this week is celebrated
worldwide for her literary ambassadorship on behalf of curiosity, candor, keen observation
and urgent storytelling with both ambitious reach and accuracy. Her confident, complex and richly
detailed prose arrives with gravitas and humor, politics and the
interconnectedness of perspectives which seem to demand one another. I have not been so convinced by a
writer of the verity of her portrayals about how we are living, seeing,
thinking since reading Doris Lessing.
Yes, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie is my guest tonight, and what a lucky host
I am. Author of the previous
novels Half of A Yellow Sun and Purple
Hibiscus, Adichie has earned both prizes
and critical acclaim, as well as an international following. She is the recepient of a MacArthur
Fellowship and author of a short story collection, The Thing Around
Your Neck. In her newest, Americanah, the construction of a two principle characters
across time and place accommodates elegantly her keen and provocative analysis
of life on three continents. One
of the best books of the year.
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