
137. Celeste Ng: Why You Feel Stuck
We Can Do Hard Things
What Is the Role of Art in Making the World a Better Place?
As a writer, especially when the pandemic first hit and everything was closed down, I was thinking like, I feel really useless. Is there any role that art can play in trying to make the world into a better place? And how do you reconcile that? That's very much one of the questions that Margaret Bird's mother in the book is trying to figure out. She's so far out of the sandbox. Maybe if we reject all the sandboxes of white supremacy and patriarchy, we find those three things that you just said. Maybe that's what's next is changing the world.
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