Episode Summary
In his first book, Le writes stunningly inventive stories that take us from the slums of Columbia to the streets of Tehran; from a tiny fishing village in Australia to a foundering vessel in the South China Sea.
Participant(s) Bio
Nam Le was born in Vietnam and raised in Australia. He is the recipient of many awards including the Dylan Thomas Prize, the Pushcart Prize, the Michener-Copernicus Society of America Award, and a U.S. National Book Foundation "5 Under 35" Fiction Selection. His fiction has appeared in venues including Zoetrope, NPR's Selected Shorts, Prospect Magazine, and has been widely anthologized. He is the fiction editor of the Harvard Review.
Credits
ALOUD audio is presented by the Library Foundation of Los Angeles and made possible through support provided by The Ralph M. Parsons Foundation, National Endowment for the Arts, the Righteous Persons Foundation, City National Bank, K&L Gates, KPMG, Sue and David Rosenblum, Wallis Foundation, Donna and Martin J. Wolff and The Boudjakdji Foundation. Additional support provided by The Council of the Library Foundation, Library Foundation members, and the Los Angeles Public Library. Media support provided by KPPC 83.9 FM and KUSC 91.5 FM. ALOUD theme composed by Larry Karush.