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Podcast: The Lede
Episode: Reading Joyce in Kuwait — with Mai Al-Nakib and Lydia Wilson
Description: At age 14, Mai Al-Nakib stole a book off her older sister’s shelf. That book was James Joyce’s “Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man,” a famously challenging modernist novel that her sister had been assigned at college.
“It wasn't an easy read, no doubt,” Al-Nakib tells New Lines’ Lydia Wilson. “But it spoke to me. It really resonated.”
Now an award-winning novelist, she credits Joyce as a major influence on her as a budding writer.
“I was beginning to have a sense that writing was the thing I wanted to...