'Wicked' Director Jon M. Chu On The Hard Work Of Creativity
24 July - 45 mins
Podcast Series
Fresh Air
Chu takes his inspiration from his dad, a Chinese immigrant who worked both the front room and the kitchen of their family-run restaurant: "The guy that in the back of the kitchen, that was my hero." The director of Crazy Rich Asians and In the Heights talks with Terry Gross about growing up in Silicon Valley, seeing Wicked for the first time, and learning to be adaptable.
Maureen Corrigan reviews Dinaw Mengestu's new novel, Someone Like Us.
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