TEXT OF INTERVIEW KAI RYSSDAL: Hurricane Toma is delivering yet more trouble to Haiti today. Officials in Port-au-Prince say three people have died in the storm. It's just the latest in a year of tragedies for the country. There was January's devastating earthquake and the recent cholera outbreak a couple weeks ago as well. Haitian-born novelist Edwidge Danticat lives in New York City now. Her new book, "Create Dangerously," is about that life as an immigrant and an expatriate writer and what it's like to make art out of a country in chaos. Today on our series Art of Money -- what artists and other see when they look at the economy -- the culture of Haiti. Its music, its literature and its paintings, and what that all means to the Haitian people, and how they get by. When we spoke, I asked Edwidge Danticat to describe what it is like when people see Haiti for the first time. EDWIDGE DANTICAT: You know, when you take a group of students and they get there at the airport, it's almost suddenly tehnicolor because it's art everywhere -- the tap-taps, the transportation...
The full transcript of the show can be found here. The podcast can also be found here. See also: Create Dangerously: The Immigrant Artist at Work (The Toni Morrison Lecture Series)
, Haiti Noir (Akashic Noir)
, An excerpt from a lecture "Create dangerously": Given at the University of Uppsala in December 1957
, Eight Days
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