INTERACTIVE
Chats Ep. 12: On Ambition, Immigration, Class in "Gold Diggers"
VOL. 1
LIVE
A live conversation with debut novelist Sanjena Sathian.
SANJENA SATHIAN
Writer and journalist Sanjena Sathian in conversation with then-Creative Director & Advisory Editor Vishakha Darbha about rule-breaking, questions from her publishing team and whether explaining world-building came easily to the writing of her debut novel, Gold Diggers (Random House, 2021), what makes a "good" immigrant novel, and writing about the Indian-American diaspora.
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SHEBANI RAO
A Freelancer's Guide to Decision-Making
JAMIL JAN KOCHAI
A Premonition; Recollected
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Ambition
Class Struggle
Class
World-building
Fiction
Debut Novel
Debut Authors
Upper-caste
Rules
Rule-breaking
Immigration
Cultural Narratives of Immigration
Good Immigrant Novels
BIPOC Audiences
Explanation
Immigrant Pressure
Identity
Heteronormativity
Magical Realism
Kelly Link
George Saunders
Miranda July
Ruth Ozeki
Latin American Literature
Japanese Literature
Alchemy
Satire
Fantasy
Science Fiction
Genre Tropes
Jhumpa Lahiri
Zadie Smith
Philip Roth
Irreverence
SANJENA SATHIAN is the author of the critically acclaimed novel Gold Diggers, currently being adapted for TV with Mindy Kaling. Her writing has appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times, The Atlantic, The Southern Humanities Review, The Best American Short Stories 2022, and more. She’s a graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop and a former Paul and Daisy Soros Fellow. She lives in Atlanta and is currently a Fiction Fellow at Emory University.
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