Azar Nafisi, bestselling author of Reading Lolita in Tehran and The Republic of Imagination: America in Three Books, joins Marrie Stone to talk about the importance of fiction and how it’s a guardian of memory, what is unique about American fiction, and the necessity for a public discourse about literature.
In the second half, Lydia Millet joins to talk about her latest novel, Mermaids in Paradise. She discusses inspiration, landscape, and how connecting two disparate concepts in fiction can lead to intriguing plot lines.
(Broadcast date: November 19, 2014)