Judy Chicago's The Dinner Party is an installation consisting of a banquet table with places set for 39 mythical and historical women; it honors an additional 999 women by inscribing their names in gold. The work, completed in 1979, addresses the absence of women from dominant historical narratives. Chicago intended The Dinner Party to be so vast and impressive that women could never again be erased from history.

Kevin Kwan is the author of Crazy Rich Asians, the international bestselling novel that has been translated into 40 languages and was adapted into a top-grossing Hollywood film, as well as China Rich Girlfriend, Rich People Problems, and Sex and Vanity. Kwan has been named by Time Magazine as one of the 100 Most Influential People in the World. He talks about modernist author Virginia Woolf and her influence on his work.

This episode is part of The Dinner Party Today, a series by the Brooklyn Museum in which artists, writers, and thinkers reflect on the artwork's legacy and the women it represents.

Read more about The Dinner Party, Virginia Woolf, and the Heritage Floor, where the names of an additional 999 women are inscribed. Visit the Brooklyn Museum to see the installation in person.

This project was produced by Seaplane Armada and the Brooklyn Museum.