Hanya Yanagihara

Hear from Hanya Yanagihara – a writer whose fictional worlds hold readers in thrall, long after the final page – in conversation with Jason Steger about art, extremity and the language of friendship. Over the course of two very different novels, Hanya Yanagihara has established herself as a formidable and versatile new literary voice. Her debut, 2013’s The People in the Trees, had Yanagihara leading readers to a fictional Micronesian island nation, and to a turtle with life-giving flesh, weaving a magical