Merve Emre: Why Going Viral on Twitter Makes You Non Human in the Public Sphere
Merve Emre reads and discusses her tweet that went so viral it ended up on The View
About this episode of Twitter Verse with guest Merve Emre
Merve Emre is a contributing writer to The New Yorker, the author of many award-winning books, and a professor at the University of Oxford. She recently served as a judge for the International Booker Prize. By any metric, Merve is some kind of genius, a wunderkind. Merve and Gabe chop it up about Merve’s journey from Turkey to Brooklyn as a young child. What was it like for her family to live in Park Slope in the early 90’s? How did she break her arm that one time as a kid, and how does that event inform who she is today?
About Twitter Verse with Gabe Hudson podcast
Each week, Gabe Hudson interviews one of his favorite writers about their Tweets to find out what makes them tick. These intimate conversations are full of joy and laughter and hard-won truth about the creative life. Authors and journalists sit down with Gabe and reveal their private obsessions and tell powerful personal stories.
About host Gabe Hudson
Gabe Hudson is the award-winning author of 2 books published from Knopf. His honors include being named one of Granta’s “Best of Young American Novelists,” PEN/Hemingway Award Finalist, the Hodder Fellowship from Princeton University, the John Hawkes Prize in Fiction from Brown University, a fellowship from Humanities War & Peace Initiative at Columbia University, and Sue Kaufman Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. His writing has appeared in Granta, The New Yorker, The Believer, McSweeney’s, and The New York Times Magazine. He was Editor-at-Large for McSweeney’s for 10+ years. He served in the Marine Corps.