Panelists: Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah and Sequoia Nagamatsu

Moderator: Phong Nguyen

“High” art and “low” art, “literary” and “popular” fiction—these distinctions have been dissolving as mainstream entertainment becomes more complex and sophisticated in its aesthetic range, so that trying to separate that which is written for the tastes of an elite and that which is written for the tastes of the masses becomes a harder and harder (and more and more meaningless) task. In this author conversation, two writers who embrace pop culture and literary culture discuss how both influence their art.