Quiara Alegría Hudes
2/16/20261 hr 2 min
Quiara Alegría Hudes is a Pulitzer Prize–winning playwright, composer, and novelist whose work has reshaped contemporary American theater. The co-creator of In the Heights and author of Water by the Spoonful, she has consistently explored identity, family, and belonging across theater, music, memoir, and now fiction in her new book, The White Hot.
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First 90 secondsQuiara Alegría Hudes· Guest0:01
I know if you stare directly into the sun, you go blind. Like, if we look directly at our mothers, will we go blind? Or can we see them? Can we see them just once?
Debbie Millman· Host0:09
[upbeat music] From the TED Audio Collective, this is Design Matters with Debbie Millman. On Design Matters, Debbie talks with some of the most creative people in the world about what they do, how they got to be who they are, and what they're thinking about and working on. On this episode, a conversation with Quiara Alegria Hudes about her first novel and the lessons she learned from writing it.
Quiara Alegría Hudes· Guest0:35
I'm forty-eight years old. Who, who am I living this life for?
Speaker 20:40
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Speaker 31:12
Okay, I have to tell you. I was just looking on eBay, where I go for all kinds of things I love, and there it was.
Speaker 41:18
That hologram trading card, one of the rarest, the last one I needed for my set. Shiny like the- Designer handbag of my dreams, one of a kind.
Speaker 51:26
eBay had it, and now everyone's asking, "Ooh, where'd you