Introduction

This month we're going to hear Katanya by Lara Vapnyar, which was published in The New Yorker in October of 2013. Waikie Wang, whose first novel Chemistry won the Penn Hemingway Award in 2018, joins Deborah Treisman on Notes from America. During his concert tour, Billy Porter said he doesn't need a month to celebrate LGBTQ Pride because he has it all year long.