Listen "Episode #12 - Francesca Leader: "The Flaw" and "Waves""
Episode Synopsis
Virginia author Francesca Leader reveals some of the methodology behind her award-winning translation of the Japanese Iroha poem. She tells us how, when writing stories, she works from a snippet of dialogue, an image or a remembered moment, and then slowly builds the story around it. We read two of her shorter works, The Flaw and Waves.Support the show
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