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The Pandemic and Little Haiti, Plus Thomas McGuane and Callan Wink Go Fishing

The Pandemic and Little Haiti, Plus Thomas McGuane and Callan Wink Go Fishing

Released Tuesday, 12th May 2020
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The Pandemic and Little Haiti, Plus Thomas McGuane and Callan Wink Go Fishing

The Pandemic and Little Haiti, Plus Thomas McGuane and Callan Wink Go Fishing

The Pandemic and Little Haiti, Plus Thomas McGuane and Callan Wink Go Fishing

The Pandemic and Little Haiti, Plus Thomas McGuane and Callan Wink Go Fishing

Tuesday, 12th May 2020
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For more than fifteen years, the fiction writer Edwidge Danticat has called Miami’s Little Haiti home. The neighborhood is full of Haitian émigrés like herself, many of whom support families back home. Though the virus has barely touched Haiti, the economic devastation it has wreaked on the U.S. will have dire consequences on the island. Over the years, Danticat has watched as Haiti’s struggles—political, economic, and environmental—have affected her friends and neighbors in Florida. “People would often say, ‘Whenever Haiti sneezes, Miami catches a cold,’ ” says Danticat. “But the reverse is also true.” Plus, two Western writers—Thomas McGuane and Callan Wink, separated by more than forty years in age—go fishing on Montana’s Yellowstone River, and share a pointed critique of “Western writing.”

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