Lan Samantha Chang: Iowa Writers' Workshop Director Discusses Her New Novel
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Lan Samantha Chang, first Asian American and first female Director of the famed Iowa Writers’ Workshop, sat down with me to discuss her new book, All is Forgotten, Nothing is Lost (W.W. Norton 2010). The novel charts the lives of three poet-classmates and their professor from an MFA program.
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The WD Interview: Brandon Taylor - Writer's Digest
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Lan Samantha Chang on Marilynne Robinson and the Iowa Writers' Workshop
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Chang wins 2023 Anisfield-Wolf Book Award for latest novel
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Writing, Iowa Now - The University of Iowa
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Lan Samantha Chang: an author and woman for change - The Daily Iowan
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Lan Samantha Chang — The Creative Process
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Lan Samantha Chang — The Creative Process
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Lan Samantha Chang discusses 'The Family Chao' - The Washington Post
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Lan Samantha Chang “The Family Chao” Book Discussion – Book Signing Central
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Lan Samantha Chang on Food, Family, and New Ways of Imagining Asian American Narratives ‹ Literary Hub
University of Iowa - Director of the Iowa Writers' Workshop, Lan Samantha Chang has recently released her new novel, The Family Chao, and was recognized by Oprah as one of eight women
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The Workshop : Seven Decades of the Iowa Writers' Workshop: Forty-Three Stories, Recollections, and Essays on Iowa's Place in Twentieth-Century American Literature: Grimes, Tom: 9780786865031: : Books
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Lan Samantha Chang, Director of the Iowa Writers' Workshop, on New African Writing, MFAs, Literary Genres, and Her Novel The Family Chao
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Lan Samantha Chang - American Academy