Hua Hsu, Bethann Hardison, Frédéric Tcheng, and Kemp Powers on The Treat
The Treatment · KCRW
September 30, 202352m 34s
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Show Notes
<p>This week on The Treatment, Elvis welcomes Pulitzer Prize-winning writer <a href="https://www.bard.edu/faculty/details/?id=4866" target="_blank" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.bard.edu/faculty/details/?id%3D4866&source=gmail&ust=1696107462149000&usg=AOvVaw3lCukiTYY_HnINEHpz410C" rel="noopener noreferrer">Hua Hsu</a>, whose memoir <em><a href="https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/688054/stay-true-by-hua-hsu/" target="_blank" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/688054/stay-true-by-hua-hsu/&source=gmail&ust=1696107462149000&usg=AOvVaw0ICwUSJpEz8b6xfH9cxUeB" rel="noopener noreferrer">Stay True</a></em> — about grief, friendship, and identity — is now out in paperback. Then, co-directors <a href="https://www.thehistorymakers.org/biography/bethann-hardison" target="_blank" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.thehistorymakers.org/biography/bethann-hardison&source=gmail&ust=1696107462149000&usg=AOvVaw1E7jvSIxsr9dudcorGL_qO" rel="noopener noreferrer">Bethann Hardison</a> and <a href="https://showstudio.com/contributors/frederic_tcheng" target="_blank" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://showstudio.com/contributors/frederic_tcheng&source=gmail&ust=1696107462149000&usg=AOvVaw2CTYHaj0hiKp9OXatT1uV6" rel="noopener noreferrer">Fédéric Tcheng</a> discuss their film about Hardison’s groundbreaking activism for people of color in the modeling industry. And for the Treat, <em>Spider-Man: Across The Spider-Verse</em> co-director Kemp Powers talks about a novel whose precise details inspired him in his own storytelling.</p>