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André Aciman & Yuka Igarashi

André Aciman reads from the work and speaks to Granta’s Yuka Igarashi about the story, the problem with unreliable narrators and modern poetry, and why self-deception and betrayal are good subjects for fiction.

In this podcast, André Aciman speaks to Granta’s Yuka Igarashi. Aciman is the author of the memoir Out of Egypt, the novels Call Me by Your Name and Eight White Nights and numerous essay collections, and his story ‘Abingdon Square’ appears in Granta 122: Betrayal. Here, he reads from the work and discusses the story, the problem with unreliable narrators and modern poetry, and why self-deception and betrayal are good subjects for fiction.

Image: detail from illustration by Tomer Hanuka in Granta 122: Betrayal

Podcasts
Granta 122
21st January 2013
Podcasts
Granta 122
21st January 2013

André Aciman

André Aciman is Distinguished Professor of Comparative Literature at the Graduate Center, CUNY. He is the author of the memoir Out of Egypt and four novels: Call Me by Your Name, Eight White Nights, Harvard Square and Enigma Variations. He is currently working on a novel tentatively titled Youth and a collection of essays, Homo Irrealis.

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Yuka Igarashi

Yuka Igarashi is the former managing editor at Granta and was issue editor of Granta 127: Japan. She has taught fiction writing at various universities including Columbia and Parsons The New School for Design in New York.

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