Asian-American author and director of the Iowa Writers Workshop, Lan Samantha Chang
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Lan Samantha Chang, director of the Iowa Writers Workshop, appears on this episode of New Letters on the Air.
In January, 2006, Chang began serving as the first female director of the prestigious University of Iowa Writers Workshop. At age 40, she's also the youngest to hold that position. In this program, Chang discusses how the subject of her Chinese heritage impels her to write, as well as the challenges of directing an acclaimed MFA writing program. She also reads from her highly acclaimed short story collection, Hunger: A Novella and Stories, as well as her most recent novel, Inheritance.
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Lan Samantha Chang, director of the Iowa Writers Workshop, appears on this episode of New Letters on the Air. In January, 2006, Chang began serving as the first female director of the prestigious University of Iowa Writers Workshop. At age 40, she's also the youngest to hold that position. In this program, Chang discusses how the subject of her Chinese heritage impels her to write, as well as the challenges of directing an acclaimed MFA writing program. She also reads from her highly acclaimed short story collection, Hunger: A Novella and Stories, as well as her most recent novel, Inheritance.
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Originally uplinked to the PRSS Content Depot on September 20, 2006 and March 16, 2007
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SHORT DESCRIPTION: Lan Samantha Chang, director of the Iowa Writers Workshop, discusses how her Chinese heritage influences the fiction she creates, and the problems with the short story, and reads from her books HUNGER and INHERITANCE.
PROMO: This week on NEW LETTERS ON THE AIR... This year Lan [rhymes with "on"] Samantha Chang became the director of the prestigious Iowa Writers Workshop, making her the first woman, the first minority, and the youngest to ever hold that position. She talks about the importance of the short story and how her Chinese ancestry has shaped her fiction. Don't miss Lan Samanatha Chang read from her books INHERITANCE and HUNGER: A NOVELLA, next time on the next NEW LETTERS ON THE AIR...
PROGRAM LENGTH: 29 minutes
INCUE: (music) Before she ever learned to read...
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