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An Interview | John Keene on the Power of Narrative From 1613 to Today – The Brooklyn Review
Publish Date
March 2, 2021
Interviewees
John Keene
Interviewers
Elizabeth Hickson
,
Monique Ngozi Nri
,
Peter Soucy
Publisher
The Brooklyn Review
Topics
Amanda Gorman's poem at the inauguration
Community in writing
Impact of the pandemic on writing
John Keene's book "Counternarratives"
Relation to Walt Whitman's narrative
Story of Juan Rodríguez
Translation work and its influence
People Mentioned
Alexander Kluge
Anelise Chen
Charles Lilly
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Chris Kraus
Clarence Major
Eula Biss
Kathy Acker
Kevin Young
Kiese Laymon
Kwame Dawes
Lyn Hejinian
Lyra Monteiro
Ntozake Shange
Samuel Delaney
Sheila Heti
Works Mentioned
African American Poetry: 250 Years of Struggle and Song
Aliens and Anorexia
Americanah
Annotations
Counternarratives
GRIND
How Should a Person Be?
Letters from a Seducer
Playland
Seismosis
So Many Olympic Exertions
The Kingdom of This World
Places Mentioned
Brooklyn
CUNY
Harvard University
Long Island
Manhattan Island
Massachusetts
New Jersey
New York City
New York metro area
New Yorkers
Rutgers-Newark
Santo Domingo
University of Nebraska
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