Recorded: Wed, Apr 9, 2014
at Eat, Drink & Be Literary at BAMcafe
Moderated by Deborah Treisman
Presented by the National Book Foundation and Brooklyn Academy of Music
” …not just a graceful writer but a deft and original thinker about the vagaries of assimilation.”—The New York Times Book Review
Chang-rae Lee is the author of Native Speaker, which won the Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award for first fiction, A Gesture Life, Aloft, and The Surrendered, which was shortlisted for the Pulitzer Prize. Lee teaches writing at Princeton University.