Jamaica Kincaid on writing, her life, and The New Yorker

Born in Antigua, Jamaica Kincaid arrived in the United States as a seventeen-year-old au pair. Working her way through college, she eventually became a staff writer at the New Yorker and one of our most renowned novelists. Her Caribbean birthplace continues to inspire her fiction, from "Annie John" and "Lucy" to "Mr. Potter" and "See Now Then." Join her for a wide-ranging conversation with CHF Emeritus Artistic Director Lawrence Weschler.
This program is generously underwritten by Lynn Hauser and Neil Ross.
This program was recorded on October 25, 2014 as part of the 25th Anniversary Chicago Humanities Festival, Journeys: chf.to/2014Journeys
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[@lorenzowarfel1587]

What an INCREDIBLE and ELOQUENT writer! She's such a beautiful human being and her voice is so soothing! I want to take a class of her's at Harvard!

[@BubbyNikko]

I've started reading her books last summer and fell in love with each of them. Her writing is so vivid, so powerful and in my case, as a person who hasn't read much of post-colonial literature, a real punch in the stomach sometimes but a necessary one, to open my eyes to a new culture.

[@londongirl6969]

I love her writing so much!

[@Never_give_up484]

I learnt her book at Metropolitan State University in here MN I really love her writing book 📖 I admire what she wrote on the book like “this is how to do this”

[@sibengerard1856]

ONE OF THE MOST GIFTED WRITERS, LIVING TODAY IN AMERICA.

[@41yearoldnewdriver]

I just love Jamaica Kincaid. Her prose is beautiful. She is one of my she-roes. I have read three of her novels. The Caribbean novelist she is.

[@mymykisses5980]

The book was amazing

[@LuahFontana]

Who would unlike this?! Roseanne Barr? What the hell...Jamaica is such a nice woman...

[@brookegarrett7742]

It was probably Barbara Walters.

[@mardelizrivera4636]

“Webster’s Dictionary defines ‘boring’ as a sentence that begins: ‘Webster’s Dictionary defines...’” 😂

[@Freiya2011]

Amazing woman! Witty, clever, with a very subtle respectless humor! "Being a slut might be a very agreeable way of life - You can't have too much slutness" :D

[@amandaallen5915]

Why does she change her name?

[@starbuck26]

how dare that man lean back in his chair

[@Freiya2011]

He is VERY selfconfident....

[@jayshrik]

I think he makes the atmosphere v relaxed .

[@manuag3886]

note to self: 22:00

[@amandaallen5915]

I don’t know that a person who says the point. Of education is to, “not be” should be teaching.

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But that so very true

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