Angela Flournoy & Claudia Rankine: How Do You Write About America?
Angela Flournoy, Claudia Rankine, Dina Nayeri
Venue NW
26 Aug
17.00
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Two exquisite writers, Angela Flournoy (The Turner House, The Wilderness) and Claudia Rankine (the American trilogy, Triage), parse the problems and potential of writing about contemporary America. Both unflinching in their interrogation of its culture, politics, and deep inequalities, today they come together for a frank conversation about why their homeland stays at the centre of their work, and what the freedom of fiction, poetry, and narrative essay reveals about America that other forms cannot. Chaired by Dina Nayeri.