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Podcast: Between The Covers : Conversations with Writers in Fiction, Nonfiction & Poetry
Episode: Chang-rae Lee : On Such A Full Sea
Description: “The most striking dystopian novels sound an alarm, focus our attention and even change the language. The Handmaid’s Tale crystallized our fears about reproductive control; Fahrenheit 451 still flames discussions of censorship; and 1984 is the lens through which we watch the Obama administration watching us. Chang-rae Lee’s unsettling new novel, On Such a Full Sea, arrives from that same frightening realm of total oversight and pinched individuality . . . A brilliant, deeply unnerving portrait.”—The Washington Post
Selected by the New Yorker as one of the twenty best writers under forty, Chang-rae Lee is also the author of Native Speak...