Edwidge Danticat Reads Zadie Smith

Jun 1, 2025, 10:00 AM46 min

Edwidge Danticat joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss “<a href="https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/06/06/two-men-arrive-in-a-village-by-zadie-smith">Two Men Arrive in a Village</a>,” by Zadie Smith, which was published in The New Yorker in 2016. Danticat, a MacArthur Fellow and a winner of the Vilcek Prize in Literature, has published six books of fiction, including “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Breath-Eyes-Memory-Edwidge-Danticat/dp/1616955023">Breath, Eyes, Memory</a>,” “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Farming-Bones-Edwidge-Danticat/dp/0140280499">The Farming of Bones</a>,” “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Claire-Sea-Light-Vintage-Contemporaries/dp/0307472272/">Claire of the Sea Light</a>,” and “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Everything-Inside-Stories-Edwidge-Danticat-ebook/dp/B07L2JL4RT/">Everything Inside</a>.” Her memoir “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Brother-Im-Dying-Vintage-Contemporaries/dp/1400034302">Brother, I’m Dying</a>” won the National Book Award and the Dayton Literary Peace Prize, among others. She has been publishing fiction and nonfiction in The New Yorker since 1999.

Edwidge Danticat joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss “Two Men Arrive in a Village,” by Zadie Smith, which was published in The New Yorker in 2016. Danticat, a MacArthur Fellow and a winner of the Vilcek Prize in Literature, has published six books of fiction, including “Breath, Eyes, Memory,” “The Farming of Bones,” “Claire of the Sea Light,” and “Everything Inside.” Her memoir “Brother, I’m Dying” won the National Book Award and the Dayton Literary Peace Prize, among others. She has been publishing fiction and nonfiction in The New Yorker since 1999.

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