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    Press Play with Madeleine Brand

    Conversations with Jesmyn Ward, Teju Cole, and other authors we love

    With the holidays comes time to read, so we’re revisiting some of our favorite conversations with authors about race, photography, food and more!

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    By Madeleine Brand • Nov 23, 2017 • 47m Listen

    Photo of Teju Cole by Vassar College

    In this episode

    4 stories
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      Kris Yenbamroong: Cooking Night+Market dishes in your own home

      Chef Kris Yenbamroong’s two Thai restaurants, Night+Market in West Hollywood and Night+Market Song in Silver Lake, are major hits. He has another restaurant on the way in Venice with Night+Market Sahm.

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      5 min
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      Jesmyn Ward: How racism haunts the present

      Jesmyn Ward sets her novels in small-town Mississippi, and uses that setting to explore how America’s racist past continues to burden its present.

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      5 min
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      Zoë Quinn: Fighting hate after Gamergate

      After video game developer Zoë Quinn broke up with her boyfriend, he posted an angry online diatribe against her that caused an internet firestorm that still hasn’t ended.

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      5 min
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      Teju Cole: What's missing when we look at the world?

      Nigerian-American writer Teju Cole’s latest book is called “Blind Spot.” It features hundreds of images -- spanning from Lagos to Berlin to Brooklyn -- with essays on what’s visible and invisible in the photos.

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      5 min
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      Madeleine Brand

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    In this episode

    4 stories
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      Kris Yenbamroong: Cooking Night+Market dishes in your own home

    2. 0:005 min

      Jesmyn Ward: How racism haunts the present

    3. 0:005 min

      Zoë Quinn: Fighting hate after Gamergate

    4. 0:005 min

      Teju Cole: What's missing when we look at the world?

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