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Writer Quiara Alegría Hudes On ‘White Hot’ Rage

Jan 22, 2026 · 43m
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  • Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Quiara Alegría Hudes explores female spiritual quests in her debut novel 'The White Hot' about a mother who abandons her life to find herself
  • Hudes discusses her antihero April character and her collaboration with Lin-Manuel Miranda on 'In The Heights,' plus her mother's spiritual influences
  • Book critic Maureen Corrigan reviews John Banville's mystery novel 'Even the Dead'

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