No Innocents Abroad: Scott Anderson and Andrew Altschul on the CIA and U.S. Provocateurs in Foreign Politics fiction/non/fiction

In this week’s episode of Fiction/Non/Fiction, co-hosts Whitney Terrell and V.V. Ganeshananthan are joined by veteran war correspondent and bestselling author Scott Anderson and prize-winning novelist Andrew Altschul. Anderson shares what led him to the four spies featured in his new book The Quiet Americans. Then Altschul talks about decentering the narrative of the American abroad in his new novel The Gringa, which takes inspiration from the real-life case of Lori Berenson. 

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This podcast is produced by Andrea Tudhope. 

Selected readings:
Scott Anderson

Triage 

Moonlight Hotel 

The Man Who Tried to Save the World 

War Zones

Lawrence in Arabia 

Fractured Lands

The Quiet Americans

“None Dare Call It a Conspiracy”


Andrew Altschul

The Gringa

Deus Ex Machina

Lady Lazarus 


Others: 

The Godfather Film Series

Graham Greene

Tenet

The James Bond Films


Austin Powers Movies 

John le Carré

The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway

Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert

Mark Twain

The Darling by Russell Banks 

“The Storytellers of Empire” by Kamila Shamsie

Libra by Don DeLillo


"Why I Didn't Sign the Open Letter Against Trump" by Aleksandar Hemon 

American Pastoral by Philip Roth

The Good Lieutenant by Whitney Terrell

 American Dirt by Jeanine Cummins


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