Sarah Relyea interview

The 274th episode of the Reading & Writing podcast features an interview with Sarah Relyea, author of the new novel PLAYGROUND ZERO.

A former academic who has taught at universities in New York and Taiwan, she has long addressed questions of identity in her writing, including in her book of literary criticism, “Outsider Citizens: The Remaking of Postwar Identity in Wright, Beauvoir, and Baldwin.” Sarah lives in Brooklyn and spends time on the Left Coast.

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