Hanya Yanagihara, “A Little Life,” 2016

A conversation with Hanya Yanagihara, author of the best-selling novel, A Little Life, hosted by Richard Wolinsky. This encore podcast was originally posted on March 17, 2016 and was recorded on February 22, 2016. Hanya Yanagihara’s 2015 novel, A Little Life, made a huge splash in the literary world. This story of a group of friends in New York , this long narrative received terrific reviews and was one of six finalists for the prestigious Man Booker Prize. A former editor for Conde Nast Traveler, Hanya Yanagihara is currently the Editor in Chief (since 2017) for T, the style magazine of the New York Times. She’s lived in Los Angeles, New York and Honolulu, and spent far too much time eating granola bars in overpriced hotels. Her first novel, The People in the Trees, was published in 2013. Her third novel, To Paradise, was published in January 2022. The post Hanya Yanagihara, “A Little Life,” 2016 appeared first on KPFA.