Edwidge Danticat joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss “Two Men Arrive in a Village,” by Zadie Smith, which was published in The New Yorker in 2016. The 44-minute presentation was broadcast June 1 on The New Yorker Fiction Podcast.
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.
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.
