Edwidge Danticat on Haiti and Trump, Past and Present (LitHub)

Professor Edwidge Danticat was interviewed on a podcast by the Literary Hub magazine, which published an excerpt online as well as a link to hear the full podcast.

An acclaimed fiction writer and essayist, Danticat is the Wun Tsun Tam Mellon Professor of the Humanities and a professor of African American and African Diaspora Studies. She has been a contributor to The New Yorker since 1999.

She joined podcast hosts Whitney Terrell and V.V. Ganeshananthan to discuss her new essay collection “We’re Alone.” She also discussed “misinformation and xenophobic rhetoric, such as Trump’s false 2024 debate claim about Haitian immigrants eating pets in Springfield, Ohio, and how that type of language and propaganda has broadened during Trump’s second term to include even more immigrant communities.”

Danticat is the author of 18 books, including "Breath, Eyes, Memory," an Oprah Book Club selection, "Krik? Krak!," a National Book Award finalist, "The Farming of Bones," an American Book Award winner; the novels-in-stories, "The Dew Breaker," "Claire of the Sea Light," and "The Art of Death," a National Book Critics Circle finalist for Criticism. She has written seven books for children and young adults, a travel narrative, "After the Dance," and two essay collections, "Create Dangerously" and "We're Alone.”

“We’re Alone” was recently named a finalist in the non-fiction category of the National Book Critics Circle awards, as well as in the creative nonfiction category of the Firecracker Awards, given annually by the Community of Literary Magazines & Presses.