This week, Marina catches up with Pyae Moe Thet War, a classmate from her years studying at the University of East Anglia and a fellow writer. They chat about the books they've read and why they like them, and perhaps whether the cultural issues that arise from Asians (like them) who have studied and lived in the West are worth exploring in their writing.

Pyae is now back in Myanmar and is working on her first book, an essay collection titled You’ve Changed to be published by Catapult in 2022.

Mentioned in this episode:

• Joan Didion (Narrated by Vanessa Redgrave) - The Year of Magical Thinking
• Jasmine Guillory - The Wedding Date
• Mia Sosa - The Worst Best Man
• Sajni Patel - The Trouble with Hating You
• Melissa Febos - Girlhood
• Torrey Peters - Detransition, Baby
• Barack Obama - A Promised Land
• Sherry Turkle - Reclaiming Conversation: The Power of Talk in a Digital Age
• L. Frank Baum (Narrated by Anne Hathaway) - The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
• Thirii Myo Kyaw Myint - Names for Light: A Family History
• MiMi Aye - Mandalay: Recipes and Tales from a Burmese Kitchen
• Charmaine Craig - Miss Burma
• Jokha Alharthi - Celestial Bodies

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