Presentations/Readings by Edwidge Danticat
- Edwidge Danticat LIVE from the NYPLEdwidge Danticat reads from her works then is joined in conversation by Paul Holdengräber, Director of LIVE from the NYPL, to discuss her book of essays Create Dangerously: The Immigrant Artist at Work.
- Edwidge Danticat@UCSBUniversity of California Santa Barbara (UCSB) & the Department of Black Studies, presents Edwidge Danticat. Danticat reads from selected works like The Dew Breaker and provides an historical overview of Haiti.
- Edwidge Danticat Speaks at York CollegeEdwidge Danticat reads and provides analysis from some of her writings.
Interviews with Edwidge Danticat
- Author Edwidge Danticat in a 1994 interview - - NJN/State of the ArtsDanticat appeared on State of the Arts to talk about her works and reads a passage from her book Breath, Eyes, Memory and the series of documentaries about Haiti that she was making with Jonathan Demme. She was 25 at the time, and just finding her public role as an artist and a representative of the country and culture of Haiti. Here she is in that interview with Amber Edwards, then host of State of the Arts.
- An Interview with Edwidge DanticatEdwidge Danticat is joined Marlene Racine-Toussaint, the founder of the Multicultural Women's Press, as they discuss Dandicat's early years in Haiti and the major influences on her writing.
- One to One: Edwige Danticat, author, Brother, I'm DyingJournalist Sheryl McCarthy welcomes writer Edwidge Danticat to the show. Novelist, teacher, frequent contributor to The New Yorker, she's turned to her extraordinary family for her work, Brother, I'm Dying. The memoir tells the affecting story of her father struggling as a Haitian immigrant in New York City, and her uncle, struggling to remain in his socio-politically tumultuous homeland.