Podcast summary

In his first book, Le writes stunningly inventive stories that take us from the slums of Columbia to the streets of Tehran; from a tiny fishing village in Australia to a foundering vessel in the South China Sea.

Participant(s) Bio

Nam Le was born in Vietnam and raised in Australia. He is the recipient of many awards including the Dylan Thomas Prize, the Pushcart Prize, the Michener-Copernicus Society of America Award, and a U.S. National Book Foundation "5 Under 35" Fiction Selection. His fiction has appeared in venues including Zoetrope, NPR's Selected Shorts, Prospect Magazine, and has been widely anthologized. He is the fiction editor of the Harvard Review.

http://www.namleonline.com

After attending Harvard University for two years, Marisa Silver left to co-direct a documentary film for PBS entitled Community of Praise. She then wrote and directed her first feature film called "Old Enough" which won the top prize at the Sundance Festival. She went on to direct three more feature films. Silver left directing to pursue writing and she made her fictional debut in The New Yorker. Her collection of short stories, Babe in Paradise, was published in 2001 and named a New York Times "Notable Book of the Year," She is the author of the novels No Direction Home, and The God of War.

http://www.marisasilver.com

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