WATCH: John Freeman and Tahmima Anam on Public Space and Global Inequality
In Conversation with V.V. Ganeshananthan and Whitney Terrell on Fiction/Non/Fiction Live
In this episode, poet and editor John Freeman talks to Fiction/Non/Fiction podcast co-hosts V.V. Ganeshananthan and Whitney Terrell about his second collection of poetry, The Park. Freeman discusses who finds public space a source of connection, relaxation, and recreation, and who is excluded. Then Ganeshananthan, Terrell, and Freeman are joined by acclaimed Bangladeshi writer Tahmima Anam, who has written extensively about climate change and whose fable appears in Freeman’s new anthology, Tales of Two Planets: Stories of Climate Change and Inequality in a Divided World. The four discuss global inequality, the climate crisis, and resilience.
Head here to listen to the full interview on the Fiction/Non/Fiction podcast.