Two powerhouse authors from each side of the Atlantic: American Jeffrey Eugenides -- a former Academy fellow -- and German-Austrian Daniel Kehlmann discuss the craft, challenges, and joys of novel writing at a literary salon in Aspen, Colorado, hosted by Academy trustee Leah Zell. On July 1, 2025, Zell hosted this fifth annual summer salon, bringing the work of the American Academy in Berlin to the Rocky Mountains.
Host: Kristen Allen
Producer: Tony Andrews
Music: "Valium," by nothanks
Photo: Hal Williams
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Two powerhouse authors from each side of the Atlantic: American Jeffrey Eugenides -- a former Academy fellow -- and German-Austrian Daniel Kehlmann discuss the craft, challenges, and joys of novel writing at a literary salon in Aspen, Colorado, hosted by Academy trustee Leah Zell. On July 1, 2025, Zell hosted this fifth annual summer salon, bringing the work of the American Academy in Berlin to the Rocky Mountains.
Host: Kristen Allen
Producer: Tony Andrews
Music: "Valium," by nothanks
Photo: Hal Williams
"The Family Chao:" Lan Samantha Chang on How to Narrate a Community
Beyond the Lecture
37 minutes 17 seconds
3 years ago
"The Family Chao:" Lan Samantha Chang on How to Narrate a Community
During her stay at the American Academy as the Mary Ellen von der Heyden Fellow in Fiction in fall 2021, Lan Samantha Chang gave the finishing touch to her much-anticipated new novel "The Family Chao," to be published by W.W. Norton & Company in February 2022.
On today's episode, you can find out how rediscovering Dostoevsky's "The Brothers Karamazov" has shaped Chang's own writing, what it means to be an immigrant, or the child of immigrants, in the Midwest, and why two Chinese-American brothers have to visit an American diner to find some privacy.
Host: Denise Gamon
Producer: Juliane Schallau
Music: Valium by nothanks
Photo: Juliane Schallau
Beyond the Lecture
Two powerhouse authors from each side of the Atlantic: American Jeffrey Eugenides -- a former Academy fellow -- and German-Austrian Daniel Kehlmann discuss the craft, challenges, and joys of novel writing at a literary salon in Aspen, Colorado, hosted by Academy trustee Leah Zell. On July 1, 2025, Zell hosted this fifth annual summer salon, bringing the work of the American Academy in Berlin to the Rocky Mountains.
Host: Kristen Allen
Producer: Tony Andrews
Music: "Valium," by nothanks
Photo: Hal Williams
