Yanyi is a writer and critic. Yanyi’s debut book The Year of Blue Water is part poetry, part essay, part journal, and entirely itself, a document of self-discovery and human connection. In our conversation, we talked about his book, about its form and his process in creating it, and about creating community. Then in the second segment, we discussed Hannah Arendt’s seminal book The Origins of Totalitarianism.

(Conversation recorded July 11, 2019.)

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Show Notes:

• Yanyi
• Yanyi - The Year of Blue Water: Yale University Press | IndieBound
• Yanyi - Events
• Maggie Nelson - Bluets
• Maggie Nelson - The Argonauts
• Hannah Arendt - The Origins of Totalitarianism
• Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen
• Are You the One?

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