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	Podcast:		RIJ Podcast - Really Interesting Jews
	Episode:		Season 01, Episode 05: Molly Antopol – Telling the Stories of The UnAmericans
	Category:		Religion & Spirituality
	Duration:		00:30:31
	Publish Date:		2016-02-12 09:21:16
	Description:		This week I meet up with author Molly Antopol. Molly Antopol’s debut story collection, The UnAmericans, won the New York Public Library’s Young Lions Fiction Award, a “5 Under 35” Award from the National Book Foundation and the Ribalow Prize. The book was longlisted for the National Book Award; was a finalist for the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize for Debut Fiction, the Barnes & Noble Discover Award, the National Jewish Book Award, the California Book Award, and others; and will be published in seven countries. Her writing has appeared widely and won a 2015 O. Henry Prize. She is the recipient of a Radcliffe Institute Fellowship at Harvard and a Stegner Fellowship at Stanford, where she currently teaches. We chat about her book, The UnAmericans, her favorite authors, Israel, and the complexities of the immigrant experience. Episode notes: Intro Music: Im Ein Ani Li, Ross M. Levy Outro Music: When I Get to the Border, Richard Thompson and Linda Thompson Tweet
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