• Katie Kitamura's 'Audition' is a puzzle, but she says it's not meant to be solved

  • Apr 29 2025
  • Duración: 9 m
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Katie Kitamura's 'Audition' is a puzzle, but she says it's not meant to be solved

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  • In a Manhattan restaurant, the narrator of Audition meets a young man for lunch. Everyone has a different understanding of the pair's relationship, including the narrator herself. Katie Kitamura says she got the idea for the story after coming across a headline that said, "a stranger told me he was my son." That headline turned into the premise for her latest novel, which experiments with the idea of contradictions to destabilizing effect. In today's episode, Kitamura joins NPR's Ari Shapiro for a conversation about her decision to cut the book in half. They also discuss other media that's split into two parts – like the films Vertigo and Shoplifters – and Shapiro shares his interpretation of the novel.

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