Episode 30 - Hanya Yanagihara: A Little Life - Part 3

In the final part of my discussion with Hanya Yanagihara on her (now) Man Booker shortlisted novel A Little Life, we continue our discussion of male repression. From there we take in:

• the 'wolflike' character of Caleb
• money as salvation
  
• why JB and Malcolm recede in the novel
• friendship and imagination 
• Yangihara's own childhood in Hawaii
• 'My parents thought I might be a cartoonist'
• rebellion, careers and lax parents
• New York and restlessness
  
• 'I want to live in Asia'
• Yanagihara on Japan and her Japanese heritage
• Yanagihara on writing A Little Life
  
• readers' response to the novel
• A Little Life on television?
• the importance of work
• Hanya and the future