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Mar 2022
50m 1s

Hanya Yanagihara

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This week, Dua is At Your Service with the best-selling novelist and T Magazine editor-in-chief Hanya Yanagihara, who wrote the hugely successful A Little Life in 2015, and released her third book, To Paradise, in early 2022. Dua and Hanya discuss everything from the role criticism plays (or doesn’t!) in one’s work, to the responsibility that comes with storytelling in all forms, to finding success in a field “later in life.” Hanya also reveals her favourite writers of all-time.

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