Best of Design Matters: Quiara Alegría Hudes
Design Matters with Debbie Millman

Best of Design Matters: Quiara Alegría Hudes

B2Upper-intermediateAugust 3, 20261 hr 1 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. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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This episode of Design Matters originally appeared in February of 2026. 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?

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Can we see them just once? 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.

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On this episode, a conversation with Kiara Alegria-Hudis about her first novel and the lessons she learned from writing it. I'm 48 years old. Who am I living this life for? Hi, I'm Adam Grant, host of the podcast Rethinking,

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