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Tiphanie Yanique: The FPP Harlem Interview

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FPP Harlem spoke with the spellbinding fiction writer Tiphanie Yanique (How to Escape from a Leper Colony) about “juicy, fatty” novels, when the POV has to be “we,” and enchantment as a family tradition.

What’s the best thing about reading to a live audience?

I love the immediate reaction you can get.  As a writer, most of my audience is people who I will never see.  It’s nice to see them.  I also love giving readings because I dig community. Reading to an audience feels like a community endeavor. To read the rest of the interview, go here.

Tiphanie Yanique on BOMBLOG

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Tiphanie Yanique was interviewed by Jack Palmer in the summer of 2010 for BOMBLOG.  When asked why her characters are so unsure about their own history, she says: “In real life I think people do obscure their own pasts.  I think we re-imagine our histories as our psyche permits, as our society permits, as our circumstance permits.  What is real seems frighteningly and excitingly subjective. There is a truth that happened and then there are the truths of the experience of what happened.   To appreciate this, all anyone has to do is ask a married couple about the beginning of their relationship.  Often there are glaring conflicts at vital points in their versions of the story.  It seems as though when it comes to our lives’ most important moments, we are bound to see them and re-see them via our particular vision.”  Check out the entire interview here.