Hanya Yanagihara

[@graceleong2548]

The interviewer has the poise and looks of exactly how I imagined Harold to be lol

[@maykrassabokalista]

right??!! haha

[@taylort6233]

YES

[@salbaby123]

STOPPPPPP

[@bdfwhhsb]

Yep

[@risamondragon1088]

YES

[@alisezone1800]

Not me watching all her interviews because im not over the book and i cant let go of the characters ))

[@last_flower.]

Now we all need those extra 200 pages

[@heyyy7290]

RIGHT

[@luisai858]

YES

[@risamondragon1088]

He is true when he says, Jude never leaves you. Jude (and everything he represents) will forever live in my heart.

[@loversspit]

she's so well spoken, and what a nice interviewer, beyond nice- such interesting questions, so deep and based on much respect to the characters... I wish I could've attended this. Very interesting, thank you to everyone who put this event togetehr and to Hanya for the beauty that is A Little Life

[@TimeIdle]

Yes, it's interesting that she said she wanted to write a "hot"/"feverish" narrative , yet she comes off so measured, intellectual, and cool.

[@callummurphy7170]

41:50 "i really enjoyed creating caleb he’s the sort of person who smells damage on other people and is wolffish.” damn that was a creepily accurate way of putting it

[@tracyspacey6071]

The author is creepy. She has a lot of antisocial personality traits.

[@bilykralik885]

​@@tracyspacey6071what do you mean??

[@BeneathFullMoon]

@@bilykralik885 She has openly said she doesn't believe in therapy and that certain people should be able to off themselves.

[@drts6955]

​@@bilykralik885 They mean they don't like her.

[@drts6955]

​@@BeneathFullMoonthat's such a dishonest representation of what she said. Also having those opinions doesn't mean you have anti-soc traits.

[@bruce1533]

Such a very important book about the loving friendship of a group of guys, and a professor. Jude St. Francis, one of those friends, is the center of this book. He is a boy/man who never, ever gets better. It is so very true to what life holds for so many. Many people never get better----no happy endings. Many of us turn away from the horrific suffering of others and the suffering that is imposed on children and adults. I love this book, because it has increased my ACTIVE empathy, concern for the many who often suffer quite silently. This book is an absolute masterpiece.

[@samramajeed5315]

Yes this book is a masterpiece 😭

[@hungquannguyen6207]

Jesus these people

[@dena92]

Most charming woman. I could listen to her all day every day.

[@katt3]

Her point of view is really beautiful, she truly wrote a masterpiece, people might say it was exaggerated to remark all of jude’s struggles and painful memories but it actually felt, at least for me, vivid. It wasn’t just understanding his thoughts or worries, it actually led you to feel what he felt, as if you were living on you own skin. I’ve never cried so hard for a book. To this day I still don’t forget them and their story, all of them are always with me and I keep in mind people like them exist, it’s given me a more empathetic way of thinking, really loved this book, thank you for interviewing Hanya Yanagihara, can’t wait for her next one.

[@Jjustineelizabeth]

I am obsessed with this woman . I could listen to her talk all day

[@samramajeed5315]

I finished this book today and now sitting with it not knowing what to do I done crying still I am not getting over Jude I miss him 😭😭😭😭😭

[@heyyy7290]

I feel like such an adult I’m listening to interviews for entertainment hehe

[@alisezone1800]

*me*

[@malvikakashyap2608]

lol me

[@sam-v]

This book has been on my TBR shelf since 2015 and having read that recently, I wished I went to this seminar with my mum.

[@jayalbi5245]

Great interview! How smart and talented a lady she is! I liked many things about this book, including the relationship between William and Jude... all of it!

[@normdanesi2617]

really love this interview

[@mariaangelicaberan3028]

Hi lods

[@meborelol]

Okay this kinda confirms my idea that this book reads like a Josei anime. Author just said she would rather have it animated rather than a live action tv series. I get the same vibes of hopelessness and gruesome themes from my time watching anime during this quarantine lol

[@Jpri.]

i would be soooo onboard for an anime adaptation of A Little Life omgggg

[@ellidamunch2389]

nah i think this books reminds me of lolita in the sense that I'm sure there is a way to represent this book onscreen but it's more likely to cause damage. Some books just shouldn't be adapted

[@Jpri.]

@@ellidamunch2389 i see your point, its more of wanting to relive the story again for me and itd be so cool to see an animated jude, willem, harold, and the rest of the gang!, but definitely true it could cause damage

[@elizabeth4689]

I imagine something like banana fish meets cowboy bebop. I’m not sure whether an adaptation would respect the novel’s ending without turning it into something happier.

[@ellidamunch2389]

@@Jpri. it could be amazing but Ganga would have to be the writer or producer or something or it would feel exploitative

[@betsymaher9489]

I loved the book. I enjoyed it immensely.

[@maurienvy]

I appreciate her insight into the Dr. Traylor bits, which I found to be one of the few bits of extra-fat in an otherwise beautiful and complete book.

[@toruwatanabe2095]

2:00 this is so true I was baking some cupcakes today and I thought... mmm how would Jude make them though? 🧐

[@Ieena]

OMG SAME, my friend told me she’s gonna go to ny this summer and I immediately thought of lispenard street🥺

[@samhogg2311]

Loved this book. What a wonderful author so inspirational

[@luisai858]

WE NEED THE FULL VERSION, UNEDITED :(

[@CrazyWatcher670]

It will come after few years.

[@manu_archive]

I LOVED that interview thank u:)

[@eduardodifarnecio2336]

I hated reading the book but love hearing the author talk about it

[@mudpuddles]

Great interviewer

[@wtfiswrongwithmee]

I felt like she has had more compassion for Caleb than she has ever had for Jude

[@bdfwhhsb]

She just understands the characters more than anyone. After all she wrote it

[@bm4114]

You in the demonizing Hanya club?

[@tracyspacey6071]

Because Caleb is her!!!She has a lot of antisocial traits. She makes creepy comments. Also rumors of her running a toxic workplace and no one wanting to cross her. She seems to pleasure in abuse.

[@drts6955]

Omg you ppl are unbelievable. ALL make you said so now the author is a malignant psychopath. How many of these comments are on every video only shows how disturbed you ppl are. It's not just, I didn't like the book, but following her around on KZbin lol

[@rezkysantika1631]

26:21 AS SHE SHOULD

[@rezkysantika1631]

or else it'll be a disaster

[@girlandwolf]

Great interview and LOVE the book, however Hanya is such a Caleb apologist in this interview lmaooo 43:00

[@tracyspacey6071]

Caleb is her!!! She’s a wolf in sheep’s clothing!

[@ze___ki]

harold and julia didnt have a son together (was harolds son to another)... awkward.

[@bruce1533]

Many married people do not have children. They both suffered the death of a boy. It seems you might want to write your own book.

[@Vega4punk1914]

I absolutely love her dress… anyone know where its from 😅

[@ebaamomani1221]

The book I read was 720 pages!! Where are the 940? 😯 I want to read them.

[@damnitsmelol]

Different edition, your edition must be a paper back with smaller text

[@gmeiner6810]

Ebaa Momani in brazil, the edition has 820 pages

[@betinajuchemclemens7119]

@@gmeiner6810 Mine is by Record and has 784 pages.

[@aden.e]

ebook is that long

[@angelheart_]

Jude comes from gilbert cocteau 🙌

[@hojungmoon8839]

me being 200 pages away from finishing the book someone asking a question: "SO WILLEM DIES" me: what

[@yasiraffan7804]

Same. I too was spoiled. 😭

[@CrazyWatcher670]

43:03 Jude knew subconsciously what he was stepping into. Jude like problems.

[@dianecummings1312]

This interview should have had a spoiler alert. When I watched it I was at a place in the book way before the person in the audience mentions Willem’s death!

[@desireejuarez7673]

Diane Cummings well damn. I didn’t even watch the whole vid just scroll thru the comments and you spoiled it for me.

[@flop9562]

bruh... how are you gonna post a comment complaining about spoilers and then spoil it yourself

[@desireejuarez7673]

flop exactly

[@last_flower.]

Isn't it obvious it's gonna have spoilers? How else do you discuss a book?

[@Josh-nv3qs]

disgusting man

[@boarding711]

NYC does fetishizes success!

[@magaDi97]

Jude the obscure was first she just made the struggles new

[@faithobi2469]

This makes a whole lot of sense. I’ve recently read Jude the Obscure, and finding out the protagonist in A Little Life is also Jude made me realise how much of his suffering and agony is a lot like Hardy’s Jude. I was arguing with myself a few days ago that her prose does remind me of Hardy’s. It just might be A Little Life after all.

[@Ieena]

47:10

[@yeankim690]

24:03

[@yeankim690]

33:40

[@Ieena]

56:07

[@lilv1346]

Australians… 😂