Description
Cathy Park Hong talks with Sam about her book Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning. She discusses how watching comedian Richard Pryor influenced her to write honestly about Asian American identity, and how her Korean parents' experience of immigration has made their understanding of race different from her own. Hong is known globally for her award-winning poetry. She also serves as poetry editor for The New Republic and is a professor at Rutgers University–Newark.Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoicesNPR Privacy Policy
Audio
Featured in this Episode
No persons identified in this episode.
Transcription
No transcription available yet
Help us prioritize this episode for transcription by upvoting it.
0
upvotes
Popular episodes get transcribed faster