Writers Rumaan Alam and Bryan Washington on Capturing Reality in Their Fiction

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The authors of 'Leave the World Behind' and 'Memorial,' two of this season’s most exciting new books, discuss their work, the paradox of realism and upending commercial publishing

Writers Bryan Washington and Rumaan Alam have never met in person, though they’re intimately familiar with each other’s work.

Alam, 43, who lives in Brooklyn, has been teaching Washington’s 2019 collection of short stories, Lot, to his class at Columbia University, and Washington, 27, who teaches at Rice University and lives in Houston, read Alam’s recent bestseller, Leave the World Behind, before it was published earlier this month. As their novels—both with screen adaptations on the way—are out this month, their worlds are finally coming together.

 

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