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Madeleine Thien with Jiayang Fan: The Book of Records

Madeleine Thien with Jiayang Fan: The Book of Records

Update: 2025-06-11
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In this episode of Library Talks, author Madeleine Thien talks to  Jiayang Fan about her latest book, The Book of Records. The Book of Records is a novel that leaps across generations, ideas, and centuries, as if different eras were separated by only a door.

Madeleine Thien worked on The Book of Records during her 2021-2022 Fellowship at the Library’s Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers. She discusses her book with New Yorker staff writer Jiayang Fan.

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Madeleine Thien with Jiayang Fan: The Book of Records

Madeleine Thien with Jiayang Fan: The Book of Records