Podcast appearances and mentions of Matthew Salesses

On this episode, we discuss our July 2024 book club pick The Sense of Wonder by Matthew Salesses, a contemporary Asian American novel following the story of Won Lee, the only Asian American player for an NBA team, and his rise to stardom during a period known as "The Wonder." Inspired on the real life Linsanity phenomenon, and the discourse surrounding it, we dive into Matthew's take on the Asian American experience (and K-drama tropes) through the eyes of the star himself, a Korean American sports writer, and a female Korean American entertainment executive.Books & Boba is a podcast dedicated to reading and featuring books by Asian and Asian American authorsSupport the Books & Boba Podcast by:Joining our Patreon to receive exclusive perksPurchasing books at our bookshopRocking our Books & Boba merchFollow our hosts:Reera Yoo (@reeraboo)Marvin Yueh (@marvinyueh)Follow us:InstagramTwitterGoodreadsFacebookThe Books & Boba August 2024 book club pick is Land of Milk and Honey by C Pam ZhangThis podcast is part of Potluck: An Asian American Podcast CollectiveMentioned in this episode:Listen to Inheriting from LAist & NPR"Inheriting" is a show about Asian American and Pacific Islander families, which explores how one event in history can ripple through generations. In doing so, the show seeks to break apart the AAPI monolith and tell a fuller story of these communities. In each episode, NPR's Emily Kwong sits down with one family and facilitates deeply emotional conversations between their loved ones, exploring how their most personal, private moments are an integral part of history. Through these stories, we show how the past is personal and how to live with the legacies we're constantly inheriting. New episodes premiere every Thursday. Subscribe to “Inheriting” on your app of choiceListen to Inheriting now!

Paternal closes out the year with a collection of the best conversations from 2023, curating five of the best segments from the past year into one collection. On this episode, Paternal guests discuss a variety of topics including the challenges of raising mixed-race kids, how father-son relationships impacted some of the biggest rock acts of the 1990s, how burnout at work can affect your parenting, dealing with grief after the loss of a partner, and how we can hold all the good and bad of life together in the same hands. Guests on this episode of Paternal include comedian and filmmaker W. Kamau Bell, rock critic and podcast host Rob Harvilla, author and professor Jonathan Malesic, author and professor Matthew Salesses, and New York Times bestselling author and poet Clint Smith. Stay tuned for all new episodes of Paternal in 2024. Learn more about Paternal and sign up for our newsletter at www.paternalpodcast.com. You can also email host Nick Firchau at nick@paternalpodcast.com with any comments or suggestions for men he should profile on the show. Make sure you subscribe to the show on Apple Podcasts or wherever you're listening, then keep an eye on your feed for new episodes.  

To celebrate the start of NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month) we're chatting with Carly Watters, SVP and Senior Literary Agent at P.S Literary and co-host of The Shit No One Tells You About Writing Podcast!   We ask Carly about trends in fiction, how to know when a manuscript is ready, how book deals are made, if it actually is harder than ever to sell a book right now, and more!    Books about writing Carly recommends  On Writing by Stephen King   Craft in the Real World by Matthew Salesses   Obsessions Olivia - Tayvis (Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce) Becca -  A Thing or Two's October 9 Episode: Rats, Rain Clogs, and Romance, Birkenstock Boston Clogs    What we read this week Olivia - The Vaster Wilds by Lauren Groff  Becca - Do Your Worst by Rosie Danan (out 11/14)   This Month's Book Club Pick - The Christmas Orphans Club by Becca Freeman (have thoughts about this book you want to share? Call in at 843-405-3157 or email us a voice memo at badonpaperpodcast@gmail.com)   Sponsors Prose - Take your FREE in-depth hair consultation and get 15% off your first order today at  Prose.com/bop.  Cozy Earth - Get up to 35% off site-wide when you use the code “BOP” at cozyearth.com   Join our Facebook group for amazing book recs & more!  Subscribe to Olivia's Newsletter! Preorder Becca's Book!  Like and subscribe to RomComPods and Bone Marry Bury! Available wherever you listen to podcasts.  Follow us on Instagram @badonpaperpodcast. Follow Olivia on Instagram @oliviamuenter and Becca @beccamfreeman.  

Join us in welcoming guest Colette Walker on The Write Attention podcast for our discussion on personal revelation and audience responsibility in Episode 9. The group dives into when they first identified as writers and share effective strategies and resources for making writing workshops work to the writer's advantage, discussing writing the way into personal revelations or a personal journey in a project and how that may inform the character's journey. In past episodes we have talked about show and tell. Now, we explore the audience's responsibility or role in our writing. Colette reminds us to let the audience do some work and why that is so important.   This episode also includes an excerpt of Colette Walker reading an excerpt from her work, LET THE DEAD BURY THEIR DEAD.   Show Notes   1. Billie Kahora, https://research-information.bris.ac.uk/en/persons/billy-k-kahora  2. The Anti-Racist Writing Workshop: How To Decolonize the Creative Classroom Book by Felicia Rose Chavez, https://www.antiracistworkshop.com/  3. Black Women's Writer Workshop in Europe, https://sites.google.com/view/thebwweretreat2023/about  4. Craft in the Real World by Matthew Salesses, https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/55155120-craft-in-the-real-world 5. La Maison Baldwin, https://www.lamaisonbaldwin.fr/  6. Irenosen Okoji, https://www.irenosenokojie.com/   

Mary Robinette Kowal writes science fiction and fantasy, and starts writing all her novels during NaNoWriMo, which takes place each year in November. Show notes: Mary Robinette Kowal (https://maryrobinettekowal.com) The Spare Man (https://maryrobinettekowal.com/writing/the-spare-man/) Episode 19, Grant Faulkner, Executive Director of NaNoWriMo (https://podcast.scrivenerapp.com/19) Matthew Salesses, Craft in the Real World (https://matthewsalesses.com/craft-in-the-real-world/) Jessi Honard and Marie Parks, Unrelenting (https://www.marieparks.com/order-unrelenting/) Learn more about Scrivener (https://www.literatureandlatte.com/scrivener/overview), and check out the ebook Take Control of Scrivener (https://www.literatureandlatte.com/store). If you like the podcast, please follow it in Apple Podcasts (https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/write-now-with-scrivener/id1568550068) or your favorite podcast app. Leave a rating or review, and tell your friends. And check out past episodes of Write Now with Scrivener (https://podcast.scrivenerapp.com).

“Navigation” Torie and David welcome back Mike Croley, award winning author, teacher and golf fanatic. They break down the sale (thank heaven) of the Washington football team, guess who the best-seller on Time's most influential list is, and play “Can we save this classic?” Cannibalism always helps. Thanks to his friendship with Mike, PEN/Faulkner finalist Matthew Salesses zooms in to share “Sense of Wonder,” his fictional take on the triumphs and challenges of NBA star Jeremy Lin's ascendancy.  Ron Charles of The Washington Post describes it as “a remarkable feat of artistic prowess.” We call it a blast to read and about so much more than sports and entertainment.   

This week, the Sports Literati convene to discuss Linsanity, one of Dave's favourite topics (try to guess which Dave!). Matthew Salesses is a Korean American writer who has written, as far as we know, the first literary novel based on Jeremy Lin's epic period of wonder with the New York Knicks in 2012. Join us as we take a look at this novel and discuss the impact of Linsanity on race, literature, and basketball.

Matthew Salesses clearly remembers the first time he saw Jeremy Lin on the basketball court. It was three years before Lin became an international celebrity and “Linsanity” took over Madison Square Garden in New York City, but even then Salesses knew there was something special about watching an Asian American basketball player dominate on the court. More than a decade later Lin's rise to fame - and the mix of recognition and racism he endured on the way - is the template for Salesses's new novel and his latest examination of identity, masculinity, and belonging. On this episode of Paternal, Salesses recounts his memories of “Linsanity” and the fallout in the sports media, as well as his own upbringing as a Korean boy adopted by an all-white family in a small town in Connecticut. He also discusses how he held onto hope and wonder as his wife battled cancer, and how he's parented two young children after her death. Salesses's fourth novel, The Sense of Wonder, was released in January 2023. Learn more about Paternal and sign up for our newsletter at www.paternalpodcast.com. You can also email host Nick Firchau at nick@paternalpodcast.com with any comments or suggestions for men he should profile on the show. Make sure you subscribe to the show on Apple Podcasts or wherever you're listening, then keep an eye on your feed for new episodes.

Matthew Salesses is the author of eight books, including The Sense of Wonder, the national bestseller Craft in the Real World, and the PEN/Faulkner Finalist and Dublin Literary Award longlisted novel Disappear Doppelgänger Disappear. He also wrote The Hundred-Year Flood; I'm Not Saying, I'm Just Saying; Different Racisms: On Stereotypes, the Individual, and Asian American Masculinity; The Last Repatriate; and Our Island of Epidemics. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transracial adoptee Matthew shares how he's found clarity and resolved confusion about who he is to find peace. There are insights aplenty on shame, feeling different and a host of other issues that can plague transracial adoptees.Here's the book I mention https://www.amazon.com/Power-vs-Force-Dr-David-R-Hawkins-audiobook/dp/B000KZRMCOMATTHEW SALESSES is the author of eight books, including The Sense of Wonder, which comes out in January 2023 from Little, Brown. Most recent are the national bestseller Craft in the Real World (a Best Book of 2021 at NPR, Esquire, Library Journal, Independent Book Review, Chicago Tribune, Electric Literature, and others) and the PEN/Faulkner Finalist and Dublin Literary Award longlisted novel Disappear Doppelgänger Disappear. He also wrote The Hundred-Year Flood; I'm Not Saying, I'm Just Saying; Different Racisms: On Stereotypes, the Individual, and Asian American Masculinity; The Last Repatriate; and Our Island of Epidemics (out of print). Also forthcoming is a memoir-in-essays, To Grieve Is to Carry Another Time.Matthew was adopted from Korea. In 2015 Buzzfeed named him one of 32 Essential Asian American Writers. His essays can be found in Best American Essays 2020, NPR Code Switch,The New York Times Motherlode, The Guardian, VICE.com, and other venues. His short fiction has appeared in Glimmer Train, American Short Fiction, PEN/Guernica, and Witness, among others. He has received awards and fellowships from Bread Loaf, Glimmer Train, Mid-American Review, [PANK], HTMLGIANT, IMPAC, Inprint, and elsewhere.Matthew is an Assistant Professor of Writing at Columbia University. He earned a Ph.D. in Literature and Creative Writing from the University of Houston and an M.F.A. in Fiction from Emerson College. He serves on the editorial boards of Green Mountains Review and Machete (an imprint of The Ohio State University Press), and has held editorial positions at Pleiades, The Good Men Project, Gulf Coast, and Redivider. He has read and lectured widely at conferences and universities and on TV and radio, including PBS, NPR, Al Jazeera America, various MFA programs, and the Tin House, Kundiman, and One Story writing conferences.https://matthewsalesses.com/https://www.instagram.com/m.salesses

Won Lee, the protagonist of the novel The Sense of Wonder, is the only Asian American player in the NBA. But as was true for real-life basketball star Jeremy Lin, things can get very ugly – and very racist – very quickly. In today's episode, author Matthew Salesses explains to NPR's Leila Fadel how he tried to balance his main character's "happy to be here" energy with the need to push back and stand up for himself. He also tells Fadel about his deep love for Korean dramas, and how that passion found a home in the novel, too.

These two novels explore the gulf between expectation and reality, ambition and opportunity, and what happens when life veers off from your carefully planned path. Kashana Cauley and Matthew Salesses each give us indelible casts of characters to follow as they face career upheaval, challenges to their identities and find new love in unexpected ways. Listen to this Double Shot episode with both authors in conversation separately with Poured Over's host, Miwa Messer.     Matthew Salesses combines professional basketball, K-dramas, and young love in his novel The Sense of Wonder. Salesses joins us to talk about the effect of Jeremy Lin, the structure of a novel vs. a K-drama, his teaching career and what he's reading now.     In Kashana Cauley's The Survivalists, a young Black lawyer meets a man who thoroughly changes her life through love, coffee and doomsday prepping. Cauley talks with us about how she developed her characters, social class and real estate in New York City, the authors who influenced her and more.     Featured Books (Episode):  The Sense of Wonder by Matthew Salesses  The Survivalists by Kashana Cauley  Craft in the Real World by Matthew Salesses The Woman Warrior by Maxine Hong Kingston  No-No Boy by John Okada  American Born Chinese by Gene Luen Yang  Our Country Friends by Gary Shteyngart     Featured Books (TBR Topoff):  Interior Chinatown by Charles Yu   The Sellout by Paul Beatty    Poured Over is produced and hosted by Miwa Messer and mixed by Harry Liang. Follow us here for new episodes Tuesdays and Thursdays with occasional Saturdays.  

It's been a rough start to the Year of the Rabbit, with tragedies hitting close to home. Marvin and Hanh take some time to talk through the recent events that happened right in our backyard before diving into the pop that's been getting us through this tough week. On this episode, we check out M3GAN, the new creepy robot horror movie from Blumhouse, which provided some much needed absurdity and levity. (spoiler warning: we talk about the twist in screenwriter Akela Cooper's previous Blumhouse film Malignant)What's Popping? - The Sense of Wonder by Matthew Salesses, The Fraud Squad by Kyla Zhao---We at Good Pop were heartbroken to learn about the shootings this past week in Monterey Park and Half Moon Bay. One of our hosts grew up in MPK and another host grew up one city over in San Gabriel. Garfield and Garvey is an intersection that we frequented to eat at the ABC Cafe, to drop our parents off for the airport shuttle, and to visit our family doctors at the Garfield Medical Center. We grew up on these streets and it's painful to see our community hurting.All of us at Good Pop would like to express our sincerest condolences to those who've lost friends and family members in these senseless killings. For those listeners looking for ways to help, please visit the links below to learn about the victims funds that have been set up to support those affected.Monterey Park: https://www.gofundme.com/c/act/monterey-park-shooting-helpHalf Moon Bay: https://www.gofundme.com/f/half-moon-bay-victims-fund---Follow our hosts:Marvin Yueh - @marvinyuehJess Ju - @jessjutweetsHanh Nguyen - @hanhonymousFollow the show and engage with us at @goodpopclubPart of the Potluck Podcast CollectiveProduced by HappyEcstatic Media

MATTHEW SALESSES is the author of eight books, including The Sense of Wonder, which comes out in January 2023 from Little, Brown. Most recent are the national bestseller Craft in the Real World (a Best Book of 2021 at NPR, Esquire, Library Journal, Independent Book Review, Chicago Tribune, Electric Literature, and others) and the PEN/Faulkner Finalist and Dublin Literary Award longlisted novel Disappear Doppelgänger Disappear. He also wrote The Hundred-Year Flood; I'm Not Saying, I'm Just Saying; Different Racisms: On Stereotypes, the Individual, and Asian American Masculinity; The Last Repatriate; and Our Island of Epidemics (out of print). Also forthcoming is a memoir-in-essays, To Grieve Is to Carry Another Time. Book Recommendations: Kristin Chen, Counterfeit Alice Munroe, Selected Stories Ryan Lee Wong, Which Side Are You On?  Chris Holmes is Chair of Literatures in English and Associate Professor at Ithaca College. He writes criticism on contemporary global literatures. His book, Kazuo Ishiguro as World Literature, is under contract with Bloomsbury Publishing. He is the co-director of The New Voices Festival, a celebration of work in poetry, prose, and playwriting by up-and-coming young writers. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

MATTHEW SALESSES is the author of eight books, including The Sense of Wonder, which comes out in January 2023 from Little, Brown. Most recent are the national bestseller Craft in the Real World (a Best Book of 2021 at NPR, Esquire, Library Journal, Independent Book Review, Chicago Tribune, Electric Literature, and others) and the PEN/Faulkner Finalist and Dublin Literary Award longlisted novel Disappear Doppelgänger Disappear. He also wrote The Hundred-Year Flood; I'm Not Saying, I'm Just Saying; Different Racisms: On Stereotypes, the Individual, and Asian American Masculinity; The Last Repatriate; and Our Island of Epidemics (out of print). Also forthcoming is a memoir-in-essays, To Grieve Is to Carry Another Time. Book Recommendations: Kristin Chen, Counterfeit Alice Munroe, Selected Stories Ryan Lee Wong, Which Side Are You On?  Chris Holmes is Chair of Literatures in English and Associate Professor at Ithaca College. He writes criticism on contemporary global literatures. His book, Kazuo Ishiguro as World Literature, is under contract with Bloomsbury Publishing. He is the co-director of The New Voices Festival, a celebration of work in poetry, prose, and playwriting by up-and-coming young writers. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/new-books-network

MATTHEW SALESSES is the author of eight books, including The Sense of Wonder, which comes out in January 2023 from Little, Brown. Most recent are the national bestseller Craft in the Real World (a Best Book of 2021 at NPR, Esquire, Library Journal, Independent Book Review, Chicago Tribune, Electric Literature, and others) and the PEN/Faulkner Finalist and Dublin Literary Award longlisted novel Disappear Doppelgänger Disappear. He also wrote The Hundred-Year Flood; I'm Not Saying, I'm Just Saying; Different Racisms: On Stereotypes, the Individual, and Asian American Masculinity; The Last Repatriate; and Our Island of Epidemics (out of print). Also forthcoming is a memoir-in-essays, To Grieve Is to Carry Another Time. Book Recommendations: Kristin Chen, Counterfeit Alice Munroe, Selected Stories Ryan Lee Wong, Which Side Are You On?  Chris Holmes is Chair of Literatures in English and Associate Professor at Ithaca College. He writes criticism on contemporary global literatures. His book, Kazuo Ishiguro as World Literature, is under contract with Bloomsbury Publishing. He is the co-director of The New Voices Festival, a celebration of work in poetry, prose, and playwriting by up-and-coming young writers. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/literature

This week, Dana and Julia are joined by Slate writer Dan Kois. They start by discussing HBO's new series, The Last of Us, a video game adaptation with culture editor and writer at The New Yorker, Alex Barasch. Then they discuss the French film, Saint Omer, shortlisted for Best International Film at the 2023 Oscars. Finally, they finish by talking about Dan's essay on how the Trunchbull, the formidable villain of Roald Dahl's 1988 novel Matilda, is still evolving.  Email us at culturefest@slate.com. Endorsements:  Dan: Two books publishing this week, an anti-romantic comedy, Really Good, Actually by Monica Heisey, about a young woman in Toronto failing to deal with her divorce, and a novel by Matthew Salesses titled The Sense of Wonder about the ways Asian Americans navigate the worlds of sports and entertainment when everything is stacked against them.  Julia: The Smitten Kitchen recipe for seven-yolk pasta dough. Dana: An unexpected yet beautiful viral Twitter thread by @annethegnome about mushrooms. Podcast production by Cameron Drews. Production assistance by Yesica Balderrama. Outro music: "Pull Me Out" by Mike Stringer. If you enjoy this show, please consider signing up for Slate Plus. Slate Plus members get an ad-free experience across the network and exclusive content on many shows. You'll also be supporting the work we do here on the Culture Gabfest. Sign up now at Slate.com/cultureplus to help support our work. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week, Dana and Julia are joined by Slate writer Dan Kois. They start by discussing HBO's new series, The Last of Us, a video game adaptation with culture editor and writer at The New Yorker, Alex Barasch. Then they discuss the French film, Saint Omer, shortlisted for Best International Film at the 2023 Oscars. Finally, they finish by talking about Dan's essay on how the Trunchbull, the formidable villain of Roald Dahl's 1988 novel Matilda, is still evolving.  Email us at culturefest@slate.com. Endorsements:  Dan: Two books publishing this week, an anti-romantic comedy, Really Good, Actually by Monica Heisey, about a young woman in Toronto failing to deal with her divorce, and a novel by Matthew Salesses titled The Sense of Wonder about the ways Asian Americans navigate the worlds of sports and entertainment when everything is stacked against them.  Julia: The Smitten Kitchen recipe for seven-yolk pasta dough. Dana: An unexpected yet beautiful viral Twitter thread by @annethegnome about mushrooms. Podcast production by Cameron Drews. Production assistance by Yesica Balderrama. Outro music: "Pull Me Out" by Mike Stringer. If you enjoy this show, please consider signing up for Slate Plus. Slate Plus members get an ad-free experience across the network and exclusive content on many shows. You'll also be supporting the work we do here on the Culture Gabfest. Sign up now at Slate.com/cultureplus to help support our work. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Matthew Salesses is the author of the novel The Sense of Wonder (Little, Brown & Co.). Salesses' other books include the national bestseller Craft in the Real World, the 2021 finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction Disappear Doppelgänger Disappear, and two other novels. Adopted from Korea, he has written about adoption, race, and Asian American masculinity in The Best American Essays 2020, NPR's Code Switch, the New York Times blog Motherlode, and The Guardian, among other media outlets. BuzzFeed has named him one of 32 Essential Asian American Writers. He lives in New York City, where he is an Assistant Professor of Writing at Columbia University. *** Otherppl with Brad Listi is a weekly literary podcast featuring in-depth interviews with today's leading writers. Launched in 2011. Books. Literature. Writing. Publishing. Authors. Screenwriters. Etc. Available where podcasts are available: Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher, iHeart Radio, etc. Subscribe to Brad Listi's email newsletter. Support the show on Patreon Merch @otherppl Instagram  YouTube TikTok Email the show: letters [at] otherppl [dot] com The podcast is a proud affiliate partner of Bookshop, working to support local, independent bookstores. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Bestselling author and PEN/Faulkner Award finalist Matthew Salesses joins to discuss his new book, The Sense of Wonder. A fictionalized story centering around the first Asian American basketball player in the NBA and a k-drama producer, the story weaves together complex multi-layered narratives exploring love, racism, and the media. Matthew Salesses will be in conversation with author Kirsten Chen at Book Are Magic tonight. You can purchase tickets here .

Episode 161 Notes and Links to Matthew Salesses' Work       On Episode 161 of The Chills at Will Podcast, Pete welcomes Matthew Salesses, and the two discuss, among other things, his early relationships with writing and language, his latest book (out January 17!), The Sense of Wonder, its connection to real-life events and Korean dramas, its background and themes and implications, and his processes in writing the book and his 2021 smash, Craft in the Real World and its ideas that shift the paradigms of teaching writing in workshops and reevaluating ideas of “relatability,” bias, and audience.    Matthew Salesses is the author of The Sense of Wonder, national bestseller Craft in the Real World, the 2021 finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction Disappear Doppelgänger Disappear, and two other novels. Adopted from Korea, he has written about adoption, race, and Asian American masculinity in The Best American Essays 2020, NPR's Code Switch, the New York Times blog Motherlode, and The Guardian, among other media outlets. BuzzFeed has named him one of 32 Essential Asian American Writers. He lives in New York City, where he is an Assistant Professor of Writing at Columbia University.            Buy Craft in the Real World   Matthew Salesses' Website   The Washington Post Review of The Sense of Wonder-by Ron Charles   New York Times Discussion of Craft in the Real World: Rethinking Fiction Writing and Workshopping by Laila Lalami   At about 7:20, Matt shouts out his launch party on publication day (January 17) for The Sense of Wonder, an event at with “BFF” Kirstin Chen at Books are Magic in Brooklyn at 7pm EST: in-person and on YouTube Live   At about 8:40, Matt describes his relationship with language and books as a kid and ideas of agency and reading fantasy    At about 11:00, Matt describes the scant examples of representation that was available   At about 12:45, Matt describes what he read at school   At about 13:40, Matt traces early moments in his writing career, as well as the omnipresence of books in his house   At about 14:55, Matt responds to Pete's question about who/what his students are reading, and he highlights the resonance of Katie Kiramura's writing   At about 16:20, Matt gives background on the beginnings of The Sense of Wonder, including connections to Jeremy Lin    At about 19:20, Pete and Matt lay out the book's main characters, and Matt explains the cool name for the star basketball player,    At about 20:45, Pete cites the book's epigraph and how the book opens   At about 21:45, Matt explains how Robert Sung and Won Lee, two of the book's main characters, are similar and dissimilar    At about 23:40, Matt and Pete discuss the connections between Powerball! and Robert Sung and their distinct and shared trajectories, including how a woman loved by both, Brit Young, is a dynamic character    At about 26:00, Pete outlines the hysteria that surrounds Won's standout play and Matthew details Won's coach's behavior    At about 28:30, Matthew expands upon how a “scarcity model” plays out in the book with Sung and Won, and how it manifested in Matthew's own life   At about 30:50, Matthew describes the significance of a scene that Pete compliments as “icky,” including   At about 33:00, Carrie Kang is described and her and Won's backstories are laid out as Pete brings up connections to agency as seen in both of Matt's recent books   At about 35:15, Matt describes the “living funeral” done in the book, and how this storyline with Carrie's sister K having Stage IV Cancer mirrors the story of Matt's own wife    At about 37:50, Pete dates himself with a ridiculous movie reference and Matthew talks about the sections in which Carrie lays out basics of K Dramas; his answer touches upon ideas of “audience”   At about 40:30, Pete asks Matthew to define “wonder,” especially as used in the book   At about 41:50, the two discuss the second half of the book, including Matthew's skillful usage of timing and connections to K Drama storylines   At about 44:35, Pete compliments the ending, including the clever and intriguing last sentence of the book   At about 45:00, Pete highlights a profound quote about wonder from K at her “living funeral”   At about 46:25, Matthew responds to Pete's questions about Craft in the Real World and ideas of “unlearning” after Pete's notes the book's immediate appeal to all readers, including its special place among educators   At about 47:35, Pete asks Matthew about the significant example he uses in the book about “query” versus “ask” with dialogue   At about 49:30, Pete notes the book's two-half structure and notes the emphasis on craft as necessarily cultural; Matt speaks to ideas of writing as apolitical or “outside   At about 51:40, Matt and Pete discuss ideas of “know[ing] your audience” and its connection to craft   At about 53:10, Matt describes short-sighted criticisms from Western readers/writers   At about 54:35, Matt and Pete discuss the importance of Gish Jen pointing out a survey/experiment that fleshes out differences in types of literature types, and how Western critics often limit and unfairly criticize Asian and American-writing; Matt also refers to ideas of “hybridity” as stated by Lisa Lowe   At about 56:55, Pete asks about how Matthew runs his workshops and responds to Pete's question about ways in which to keep workshops balanced and    At about 59:00, Matthew shares positive feedback that comes from readers of his book, and Pete shares a quote from the book that sums up its greatness      You can now subscribe to the podcast on Apple Podcasts, and leave me a five-star review. You can also ask for the podcast by name using Alexa, and find the pod on Stitcher, Spotify, and on Amazon Music. Follow me on IG, where I'm @chillsatwillpodcast, or on Twitter, where I'm @chillsatwillpo1. You can watch other episodes on YouTube-watch and subscribe to The Chills at Will Podcast Channel. Please subscribe to both my YouTube Channel and my podcast while you're checking out this episode.    Sign up now for The Chills at Will Podcast Patreon: it can be found at patreon.com/chillsatwillpodcastpeterriehl     Check out the page that describes the benefits of a Patreon membership, including cool swag and bonus episodes. Thanks in advance for supporting my one-man show, my DIY podcast and my extensive reading, research, editing, and promoting to keep this independent podcast pumping out high-quality content!    This is a passion project of mine, a DIY operation, and I'd love for your help in promoting what I'm convinced is a unique and spirited look at an often-ignored art form.    The intro song for The Chills at Will Podcast is “Wind Down” (Instrumental Version), and the other song played on this episode was “Hoops” (Instrumental)” by Matt Weidauer, and both songs are used through ArchesAudio.com.    Please tune in for Episode 162 with Erin Keane, whose RUNAWAY: Notes on the Myths that Made Me, her debut full-length nonfiction book, is a memoir in essays about her parents/pop culture/gender. Erin is also Editor in Chief at Salon Magazine and the author of three collections of poetry.       The episode will air on January 24.  

On Thursday's show: Violent crime is on the decline, according to recent data Houston Police Chief Troy Finner cited Wednesday. Is that true, and, if so, how much of this is due to actual reform measures? Also this hour: A musician sued the city of Houston over its busking regulations and won. Now, the city is retooling its rules on street performers. Then, the city of Houston has launched a new group buying program to reduce the cost of installing solar panels on homes. We learn how it works. And former Houstonian Matthew Salesses talks about his latest novel, The Sense of Wonder. It's based loosely on "Linsanity," the rise of basketball star Jeremy Lin. The story explores what Lin's success meant for Asian Americans and the importance of holding on to the fleeting wonder of a positive moment. Salesses has an event with Inprint on Jan. 23.

Welcome to the Winter 2023 Book Preview with Catherine of Gilmore Guide to Books!   In this episode, Catherine and I share 16 of our most anticipated books releasing January through March.   This post contains affiliate links through which I make a small commission when you make a purchase (at no cost to you!). Announcement Join our Patreon Community to get our bonus podcast episode series called Book Preview Extras! In these episodes, Catherine and I share at least 4 bonus books we are excited about that we did not share in the big show preview episode. Get more details about all the goodies available to all patrons (Stars and Superstars) and sign up here! Highlights Catherine has 6 repeat authors from her 8 books, and Sarah has 4! Catherine's picks are leaning more literary, while Sarah is focusing on more commercial fiction. One 5-star book already from Sarah's selections. Plus, their #1 picks for winter release. Winter 2023 Book Preview [4:34] JANUARY Sarah's Picks: Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone by Benjamin Stevenson (January 17) | Amazon | Bookshop.org [4:56] Maame by Jessica George (January 31) | Amazon | Bookshop.org [12:48] The Sense of Wonder by Matthew Salesses (January 17) | Amazon | Bookshop.org [18:39] Catherine's Picks: Ghost Season by Fatin Abbas (January 10) | Amazon | Bookshop.org [11:05] Margot by Wendell Steavenson (January 24) | Amazon | Bookshop.org[16:02]  FEBRUARY Sarah's Picks: I Have Some Questions for You by Rebecca Makkai (February 21) | Amazon | Bookshop.org [24:08] Time's Undoing by Cheryl A. Head (February 28) | Amazon | Bookshop.org [30:10]  Catherine's Picks: Victory City by Salman Rushdie (February 7) | Amazon | Bookshop.org[21:38]  Stone Blind by Natalie Haynes (February 7) | Amazon | Bookshop.org [27:25] On the Savage Side by Tiffany McDaniel (February 14) | Amazon | Bookshop.org [31:43] All the Beauty in the World by Patrick Bringley (February 14) | Amazon | Bookshop.org [36:56]  MARCH Sarah's Picks: Pineapple Street by Jenny Jackson (March 7) | Amazon | Bookshop.org [34:31] All That Is Mine I Carry with Me by William Landay (March 7) | Amazon | Bookshop.org [39:31]  Hello Beautiful by Ann Napolitano (March 14) | Amazon | Bookshop.org [45:04]  Catherine's Picks: Dust Child by Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai (March 14) | Amazon | Bookshop.org [42:26] The Perfumist of Paris by Alka Joshi (March 28) | Amazon | Bookshop.org [47:46] Other Books Mentioned The One by John Marrs [7:24]  Someday, Maybe by Onyi Nwabineli [14:29]  People Person by Candice Carty-Williams [14:31]  Goodbye, Vitamin by Rachel Khong [14:52] Ghosts by Dolly Alderton [15:13] Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus [18:13] Winterland by Rae Meadows [18:49] The Power by Naomi Alderman [23:16] The Great Believers by Rebecca Makkai [24:14] The Secret History by Donna Tartt [25:22] When the Stars Go Dark by Paula McLain [25:40] We Keep the Dead Close by Becky Cooper [26:29] Betty by Tiffany McDaniel [33:06] Metropolitan Stories by Christine Coulson [37:12] Defending Jacob by William Landay [39:00] The Mountains Sing by Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai [42:40] Dear Edward by Ann Nepolitano [45:23] The Henna Artist by Alka Joshi [48:05] Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin [49:34] Other Links Golden Age of Detective Fiction | Knox's 10 Commandments

Episode 160 Notes and Links to Saima Sitwat's Work       On Episode 160 of The Chills at Will Podcast, Pete welcomes Saima Sitwat, and the two discuss, among other things, her relationship with languages and growing up in Karachi, Pakistan, her early love of reading, her early writing and “chill-inducing” reads, her triumphs and challenges and funny anecdotes mentioned in her book from her days in the United States, her evolving “Americanism” and faith, her activism, places within the American Desi and American Muslim cultures, all chronicled in her 2020 book, and her continuing work to share compelling stories in different media.            Saima A. Sitwat is an author, speaker and educator. She was born and raised in Karachi, Pakistan and migrated to the United States of America in 2003.  Saima holds an M.A. in English Linguistics from the University of Karachi, Pakistan and a Master of Public and International Affairs (MPIA) from the Graduate School of Public and International Affairs, University of Pittsburgh. She is also an alumna of the Leadership Pittsburgh Class XXXV. Saima believes in the power of storytelling. Her love for stories has taken her from corporate boardrooms in downtown skyscrapers to Punxsutawney, a town in rural Pennsylvania, on Groundhog Day. She puts her faith in the word, written and spoken, to provide healing and challenging pre-existing paradigms. Her writings have encompassed a vast array of topics and genres from penning opinion pieces and investigative reports to policy papers and developing strategic plans.  From professional writings to personal narratives, Saima always strives to find a singular anchor, that is the story at the core. The story might belong to a person, or a business or nonprofit organization, but the vision and mission is always defined by the one true story behind it.  Saima is the author of her newly published memoir, “American Muslim: An Immigrant's Journey.”     Buy American Muslim: An Immigrant's Journey   Saima Sitwat's Website   Interview with Saima about “Becoming American” Series   At about 7:40, Saima gives background information on studying linguistics at university, as well as her relationship with languages growing up in Karachi, Pakistan    At about 11:00, Saima gives further information on growing up speaking Urdu and English, and Pakistani-inflected English   At about 14:40, Saima talks about her reading choices growing up   At about 17:40, Saima explains her career choices growing up, how writing has been a constant companion and how writing as a career she has come to in recent years   At about 19:00, Saima details two pieces written in Pittsburgh around 2015 and 2016 that received meaningful and positive feedback and that propelled her forward in pursuing writing     At about 21:20, Saima traces an evolution in the type of questions asked in recent years about Muslims and Muslim-Americans    At about 22:20, Saima shouts the book from which she is still “recovering,” the “realistic” Our Missing Hearts by Celeste Ng.   At about 24:20, Saima discusses the significance of the book's cover   At about 26:00, Pete and Saima talk about the timing of the book and Saima's “urgency” in publishing the book   At about 27:15, Saima describes the “conscious choice” she made in selecting her title   At about 28:35, Pete cites the skillful ways in which Saima charts her early days in the United States, and Saima recounts a humorous discrepancy in Fahrenheit and Celsius   At about 31:55, Saima explains “Americanism” and quotes a fellow immigrant writer discussing the unique way in which Americans make plans, as well as things learned from having two school-age children   At about 34:55, Saima gives background on the first chapter and a story involving the bathroom that is a microcosm of her early American days   At about 36:50, Saima further describes some learning moments in her early US days; she also highlights the warp speed with which globalism has led to shared cultural information   At about 40:30, Saima highlights positive attributes of the US that are charted in the book, including a sense of “want[ing] to understand” about other cultures   At about 41:25, Saima talks about her days in being dependent and independent in her early days in Chicago, and how she put up a “facade” in dealing with a new place without a lot of family around   At about 45:50, Saima shouts out Potbelly Restaurants    At about 46:35, Saima discusses the intricacies of her fitting in with, and learning about, Desi- American cultures   At about 51:05, Saima cites two turning points that inspired her to become more involved in writing, public policy, and other avenues   At about 56:55, Saima details a successful and unifying protest that she took part in to effect change in the educational arena   At about 1:04:20, Pete highlights Saima's own learning and reading in preparing herself to discuss life and religious matters with her daughters   At about 1:05:20, Saima delineates differences between American Muslim practices and customs, and the Islamic and other cultural mores of Pakistan    At about 1:08:30, Saima details trying and triumphant times as the first female president of the Muslim Association of Greater Pittsburgh (MAP)   At about 1:12:30, Pete uses a quote from Saima's book in framing questions about how Saima and other women are often misjudged and harshly judged for things that males would not be judged for   At about 1:14:15, Pete charts continuing activism from Saima as stated in her book, and Saima responds to Pete's question about any pressures or burdens felt in being a sort of representative of Islam   At about 1:18:00, Pete focuses on the Covid “chronicle” that is the book's ending, and he asks Saima how she might update the book   At about 1:21:35, Saima talks about her work with Better Stories work with the MD State Arts Council   At about 1:25:00, Pete and Saima praise Leila El-Haddad, her book The Gaza Kitchen, and her writing and storytelling abilities    You can now subscribe to the podcast on Apple Podcasts, and leave me a five-star review. You can also ask for the podcast by name using Alexa, and find the pod on Stitcher, Spotify, and on Amazon Music. Follow me on IG, where I'm @chillsatwillpodcast, or on Twitter, where I'm @chillsatwillpo1. You can watch other episodes on YouTube-watch and subscribe to The Chills at Will Podcast Channel. Please subscribe to both my YouTube Channel and my podcast while you're checking out this episode.    Sign up now for The Chills at Will Podcast Patreon: it can be found at patreon.com/chillsatwillpodcastpeterriehl          Check out the page that describes the benefits of a Patreon membership, including cool swag and bonus episodes. Thanks in advance for supporting my one-man show, my DIY podcast and my extensive reading, research, editing, and promoting to keep this independent podcast pumping out high-quality content! This is a passion project of mine, a DIY operation, and I'd love for your help in promoting what I'm convinced is a unique and spirited look at an often-ignored art form. The intro song for The Chills at Will Podcast is “Wind Down” (Instrumental Version), and the other song played on this episode was “Hoops” (Instrumental)” by Matt Weidauer, and both songs are used through ArchesAudio.com.    Please tune in for Episode 161 with Matthew Salesses, who is author of, among other stellar works, The Hundred-Year Flood and Craft in the Real World. He is the author of the forthcoming 2023 novel The Sense of Wonder and has written about adoption and race for NPR Code Switch, among other outlets.    The episode will air on January 17.

This week on From the Front Porch, it's time for another Literary Therapy session! Our literary Frasier Crane, Annie, is back to answer more of your reading questions and dilemmas. If you have a question you would like Annie to answer in a future episode, you can leave us a voicemail here. Get your copies of the books mentioned in this episode from The Bookshelf: Little Women Book Club Flight by Lynn Steger Strong Seven Days of Us by Francesca Hornak (currently unavailable to order) The Santa Suit by Mary Kay Andrews Voracious! by Cara Nicoletti (currently unavailable to order) My First Popsicle edited by Zosia Mamet The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen Winter Solstice by Rosmunde Pilcher An Old-Fashioned Girl by Louisa May Alcott (currently unavailable to order) Little Women by Louisa May Alcott Mr. Dickens and His Carol by Samantha Silva (currently unavailable to order) Holidays on Ice by David Sedaris Wintering by Katherine May Perestroika in Paris by Jane Smiley Little Women (painted edition) by Louisa May Alcott Persuasion (painted edition) by Jane Austen The Anthropocene Reviewed by John Green All These Wonders and Occasional Magic by The Moth Liturgies for Hope by Elizabeth Moore & Audrey Elledge A Child's Christmas in Wales by Dylan Thomas A Christmas Memory by Truman Capote Best Christmas Pageant Ever by Barbara Robinson Miracle on 10th Street by Madeleine L'Engle (currently unavailable to order) A Treasury of Family Christmas Poems by Union Square Kids The Boy, The Mole, the Fox, and the Horse by Charlie Mackesy The Sense of Wonder by Matthew Salesses (releases 1/17/23) From the Front Porch is a weekly podcast production of The Bookshelf, an independent bookstore in South Georgia. You can follow The Bookshelf's daily happenings on Instagram at @bookshelftville, and all the books from today's episode can be purchased online through our store website, www.bookshelfthomasville.com.  A full transcript of today's episode can be found here. Special thanks to Dylan and his team at Studio D Podcast Production for sound and editing and for our theme music, which sets the perfect warm and friendly tone for our Thursday conversations.  Thank you again to this week's sponsor, Visit Thomasville. Spend Christmas in Thomasville! There is something truly special about the holiday season in Thomasville. From shopping for those must-have presents for everyone on your list, to the twinkling lights, sparkling window displays, and tempting smells wafting from restaurants all add to the festive feeling of the season. From downtown hotels, to delightful vacation rentals, book your getaway to Thomasville and add a little more sparkle to your holidays! Learn more and plan your trip at www.thomasvillega.com or @thomasvillega on Instagram. If you liked what you heard in today's episode, tell us by leaving a review on iTunes. Or, if you're so inclined, support us on Patreon, where you can hear our staff's weekly New Release Tuesday conversations, read full book reviews in our monthly Shelf Life newsletter and follow along as Hunter and I conquer a classic. Just go to patreon.com/fromthefrontporch. We're so grateful for you, and we look forward to meeting back here next week. Our Executive Producers are... Donna Hetchler, Cammy Tidwell, Chantalle C, Nicole Marsee, Wendi Jenkins, Laurie Johnson and Kate Johnston Tucker.

One of the best ways to hold up the middle of your book is to concentrate on arcs: the rise and fall of your characters' internal and external worlds, the worlds of your other characters, as well as other arc possibilities: setting, mystery, theme, and much more. To help us think through tracing these arcs are authors Jennifer De Leon and Patricia Park.Also referenced in this episode: Benjamin Percy's Thrill Me and Matthew Salesses' Craft in the Real World. Find these and my other fave craft books and books by our guests on our bookshop page: https://bookshop.org/shop/the7amnovelistPatricia Park is the author Re Jane, a modern-day retelling of Brontë's Jane Eyre named The New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice, NPR "Fresh Air" pick, American Library Association Best Books, and others. Her debut YA novel, Imposter Syndrome and Other Confessions of Alejandra Kim, is forthcoming in February, 2023. A former Fulbright scholar, Edith Wharton Writer-in-Residence, and Jerome Hill Artist Fellow, she has written for The New York Times, New Yorker, Guardian, and others. She is a professor of creative writing in American University's MFA Program. She is also working on an adult novel about the Koreans in Argentina during the Dirty War. ww.patriciapark.com Twitter/Instagram: @patriciapark718 Jennifer De Leon is the author of the YA novel Don't Ask Me Where I'm From (published by Simon & Schuster) and White Space: Essays on Culture, Race, and Writing (winner of the Juniper Prize and published by the University of Massachusetts Press), and the editor of the award-winning anthology, Wise Latinas: Writers on Higher Education (published by the University of Nebraska Press). She is currently the Visiting Writer in the MFA in Creative Writing Program at UMass Boston and the founder of Story Bridge LLC, a series of programs and workshops that bridge storytelling and DEIB (Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, & Belonging). Her next novel, Borderless, will be published by Simon & Schuster in April 2023. Visit her at www.jenniferdeleonauthor.com  This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit 7amnovelist.substack.com

The long-awaited return! James and Matt reunite to discuss Matthew Salesses' book Craft in the Real World. Matt is worried about offending anyone and James is less so!

Stories are all around us! But let's unpack what lessons we've been taught and patterns we've unconsciously internalized when it comes to storytelling. Are they outdated? What other forms or perspectives on storytelling are there? How do story conventions impact marginalized writers and communities? Listen to our discussion and reflections on Craft in the Real World: Rethinking Fiction Writing and Workshopping by Matthew Salesses. Buy the book at your local bookstore!Episode recommendations

Elaine Hsieh Chou drops into the Damn Library Hyperspace Zoom Zone to chat her incredible new campus satire, Disorientation. We get into the world of academia, writing villains, and of course, why she wrote this book three times. Plus, she brings along Matthew Salesses' Craft in the Real World. and we talk about the wisdom found therein. And lots more! contribute! https://patreon.com/smdb for drink recipes, book lists, and more, visit: somanydamnbooks.com music: Disaster Magic (https://soundcloud.com/disaster-magic) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week, we're talking about one of Sarah's favorite recent historicals, Diana Quincy's beautiful Her Night With the Duke, which was on our 2020 Best Romance of the Year list. This one fires on many cylinders, and the conversation it inspired covers a lot of ground. We talk about how you won't get a better Bridgerton read-alike than this one, about the third-act breakup, why it works and the work it does in a romance, about why widows are allowed to be sexy, about responsibility and aristocracy, about hot golf, and about how modern historicals are really doing the business. Thanks to Avon Books, publisher of Eva Leigh's The Good Girl's Guide to Rakes, and Kelly Cain, author of An Acquired Taste, for sponsoring the episode.Our next read along is Julie James's Something About You. Get it at Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Apple Books, Kobo, or at your local bookstore. Show NotesDiana Quincy has written many romance novels, and she also published Regency era mysteries under the name D.M. Quincy. You can find information about her books on her website, on twitter, or on Instagram. Her Night with the Duke was one of our best of 2020 romances.Leela taking her knife to her evil brother-in-law's face was just as satisfying as this great scene with Inigo Montoya from The Princess Bride.Here's a brief overview of the history of the Arab community in Manchester, England.Craft in the Real World by Matthew Salesses dives into storytelling around the world, makes the case that conflict-driven plots are not universal and advocates for making diverse storytelling traditions welcome in literary spaces. This essay from LitHub is a good primer to his argument.

We're talking about the movie Atomic Blonde (it's plot to vibe ratio, the bisexual lighting, the gender politics of action films, and more). We also touch on The 355 and Black Widow, which are both bisexual movies as far as we're concerned. You can also read Chelsee's essay on the epic Atomic Blonde fight scene. Also mentioned in this episode: Craft in the Real World by Matthew Salesses. * * * If you'd like to be a guest on the show, fill out our form! The Bi Pod Guest Interest Form You can also leave us a voicemail at (480) 442-1763. That's (480) Hi Bi Pod. Subscribe to the newsletter: https://buttondown.email/TheBiPod Follow us on Tumblr: https://thebipod.tumblr.com You can follow us on Instagram @TheBiPod. You can email us as thisisthebipod@gmail.com. Transcripts of our episodes are available on our website: thebipod.com. The Bi Pod is hosted by Chelsee Bergen and Christina Brown. This episode was edited and produced by Chelsee Bergen. Our theme song is Coming Home by Snowflake (c) copyright 2020 Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Noncommercial (3.0) license. http://dig.ccmixter.org/files/snowflake/61307 Ft: Analog By Nature.

Episode 104 Notes and Links to Matt Bell's Work         On Episode 104 of The Chills at Will Podcast, Pete welcomes Matt Bell, and the two discuss, among many other topics, his upbringing in semi-rural Michigan, his love of video games and fantasy, his skill in writing in different modes, and his blockbuster success Appleseed, with its myriad pertinent themes and its intricately-crafted narratives and allegorical greatness.          Matt Bell is the author most recently of the novel Appleseed (a New York Times Notable Book) published by Custom House in July 2021. His craft book Refuse to Be Done, a guide to novel writing, rewriting, and revision, will follow in early 2022 from Soho Press. He is also the author of the novels Scrapper and In the House upon the Dirt Between the Lake and the Woods, as well as the short story collection A Tree or a Person or a Wall, a non-fiction book about the classic video game Baldur's Gate II, and several other titles. His writing has appeared in The New York Times, Esquire, Tin House, Fairy Tale Review, American Short Fiction, Orion, and many other publications. A native of Michigan, he teaches creative writing at Arizona State University.    Buy Matt Bell's Appleseed   Appleseed Review in The New York Times- “A Novel Charts Earth's Path From Lush Eden to Barren Hellscape”   Matt Bell's Website   Book Recommendations from Matt Bell   Buy Matt Bell's Books   New York Times Review of In the House upon the Dirt Between the Lake and the Woods   Alta Journal Review of Appleseed   The Brooklyn Rail Review of Appleseed At about 2:00, Matt talks about the different ways of writing, editing, and publicizing books in the Covid era, noting that his newest book, Refuse to Be Done: How to Write and Rewrite a Novel in Three Drafts   At about 4:10, Matt details his childhood in rural Michigan and his relationship with reading and language    At about 6:15, Matt and Pete    At about 7:10, Matt describes the rural/urban combo in his writing   At about 9:10, Matt ponders whether his rural upbringing and reading fantasy, as well as ideas of what is “fantastical”   At about 10:35, Matt mentions formative books for him as an adolescent and college student, and how Fight Club led to other favorite writers as prescribed by Chuck Palahniuk, including Denis Johnson and Raymond Carver   At about 12:40, Matt sings the praises of The Intuitionist and John Henry Days by Colson Whitehead and inspiration for Appleseed   At about 14:30, Pete asks Matt about any “ ‘Eureka' moments” in his path to becoming a professional writer; Matt cites a “poverty of examples”   At about 16:10, Matt describes the “different” feeling that came with an early short story and things started “clicking”   At about 17:30, Matt describes just a few contemporary writers who bring “thrills at will,” including Bryan Evenson, DeLillo, Anne Carson, Christine Schutt, Jeff Vandermeer, Laird Hunt, and Dana Spiotta   At about 18:30, Matt discusses reading a huge quantity of Ursula LeGuin while writing Appleseed   At about 20:00, Pete delivers some good news to Matt regarding his short story output, and Matt responds to Pete's inquiries about Matt's previous short story collection and early publications    At about 21:20, Matt talks about the connection between rural and vast landscapes and the themes of man's relationship with nature from In the House… and other work of his   At about 22:10, Matt discusses differing views across the country of his book Scrapper as dystopian/realistic in various American locales   At about 24:25, Pete asks Matt about connections between Matt's history of gaming and his writing, including his book Baldur's Gate   At about 26:40, Matt talks about “writing with your whole self” and writing authentically for him   At about 27:40, Matt describes the copyediting process after Pete's shouts out an atypical   At about 28:40, Pete asks about the finished feeling seeds for the book Appleseed, and the process of editing with great help from Kate Nintzel and Kirby Kim   At about 32:20-Matt describes inspiration and the impetus for writing his book came from faun myths, myths in general, Dionysus, etc.    At about 33:20-Pete makes Garcia Marquez comparisons with magical realism and the nonchalant and skillful ways in which fantasy is presented in Appleseed, and Matt discusses how myth and research came into play   At about 35:20- Matt talks about the ways in which the storylines developed and about the book as self-propelling   At about 36:30, Matt responds to Pete's wondering about the balance between allegory and moralizing    At about 39:10, Matt and Pete discuss the three major storylines, and Matt responds to Pete's questions about how he made the storylines congeal so nicely    At about 41:50, Matt discusses the essential Chapman storyline from Appleseed   At about 44:40, Matt analyzes Nathaniel, a main character from Appleseed, and his motivations   At about 46:45, Pete shouts out a wonderfully crafted scene and intricately-meaningful from the book   At about 47:20, Pete shouts out a beautiful fraternal relationship and asks Matt about his mindset in crafting the relationship and Matt cites how the faun allowed him freedom    At about 49:20, Matt discusses the John character from his book and themes of the balances between nature and technology, including a real life connection to a detail from the book   At about 52:00, Pete wonders if Yuri is representative of someone in particular   At about 53:00, Pete highlights themes of “collective memory” and learning from history, as seen through the futuristic storyline, and Matt and Pete discuss ideas of “fates” and “furies”   At about 54:30, Matt responds to questions around greater good, and if democracy is up for combating climate change   At about 55:35, Matt cites a quote and books from Derrick Jensen and his memorable A Language Older than Words amid constant questions and urges to act   At about 57:10, Pete mentions a real-time connection to the themes of the conversation   At about 58:10, Pete asks Matt about the ways and places in which the book is being taught, and Matt talks about “think[ing] on top of it/past it”   At about 59:00, Matt describes his latest project, coming out in March 2022, Refuse to Be Done: How to Write and Rewrite a Novel in Three Drafts, and how he goes about writing about writing; Pete and Matt also shout Matthew Salesses' wonderful Craft in the Real World: Rethinking Fiction Writing and Workshopping   At about 1:02:30, Matt gives contact info and shouts out Changing Hands and Literati and Bookbug, and Snowbound as good independent places to buy his books   At about 1:03:45, Matt reads from Appleseed You can now subscribe to the podcast on Apple Podcasts, and leave me a five-star review. You can also ask for the podcast by name using Alexa, and find the pod on Stitcher, Spotify, and on Amazon Music. Follow me on IG, where I'm @chillsatwillpodcast, or on Twitter, where I'm @chillsatwillpo1. You can watch other episodes on YouTube-watch and subscribe to The Chills at Will Podcast Channel. Please subscribe to both my YouTube Channel and my podcast while you're checking out this episode.  This is a passion project of mine, a DIY operation, and I'd love for your help in promoting what I'm convinced is a unique and spirited look at an often-ignored art form. The intro song for The Chills at Will Podcast is “Wind Down” (Instrumental Version), and the other song played on this episode was “Hoops” (Instrumental)” by Matt Weidauer, and both songs are used through ArchesAudio.com. Please tune in for the next episode, Episode 104 with Nikesha Elise Williams. Nikesha is a two-time Emmy award winning producer, an award-winning author, and producer and host of the Black & Published podcast. Nikesha writes full time with bylines in The Washington Post, ESSENCE, and VOX. She lives in Jacksonville, Florida with her family.  The episode will air on February 22. 

Vanessa and Alyssa discuss their more anticipated releases for the first half of 2022 "Lit Hub's Most Anticipated Books of 2022" & "61 Books By Women of Color to Read in 2022" by R.O. Kwon I. The Octopus Museum by Brenda Shaughnessy | Odes to Lithium by Shira Erlichman | Deadline City | Before the Coffee Gets Cold by Toshikazu Kawaguchi - II. Constellation Route by Matthew Olzmann | Fresh Banana Leaves: Healing Indigenous Landscapes Through Indigenous Science by Jessica Hernandez | Goliath by Tochi Onyebuchi | Violeta by Isabel Allende | The Employees: A Workplace Novel of the 22nd Century by Olga Ravn, trans. by Martin Aitken | Lesser Known Monsters of the 21st Century by Kim Fu | Jawbone by Mónica Ojeda, trans. Sarah Booker | Reclaim the Stars: Seven Tales Across Time and Space, ed. Zoraida Córdova | Gallant by V.E. Schwab | The Way Spring Arrives and Other Stories edited and collected by Yu Chen and Regina Kanyu Wang | Overdue: Reckoning with the Public Library by Amanda Oliver | "Library as Infrastructure" by Shannon Mattern | The Promise of Access by Daniel Greene | Time is a Mother by Ocean Vuong | Night Sky with Exit Wound | True Biz by Sara Nović | Portrait of a Thief by Grace D. Li | Some of My Best Friends: Essays on Lip Service by Tajja Isen | The Trees Witness Everything by Victoria Chang | Siren Queen by Nghi Vo | Empress of Salt and Fortune | Swallowed Light by Michael Wasson | Neruda on the Park by Cleyvis Natera | Woman of Light: A Novel by Kali Fajardo-Anstine | Sabrina & Corina | III. "Why PhDs Need to Study Creative Writing" by Anthony Ocampo | Craft in the Real World by Matthew Salesses

In our thirteenth full episode of Cabana Chats, writer and editor Sari Botton talks with Resort founder Catherine LaSota about co-working spaces for writers, the importance of building a community around you, and how aging can mean different things to different people. If you want the full experience of this conversation, we recommend listening while enjoying a pizza around a fire with some friends! Sari Botton is a writer and editor living in Kingston, NY. She is a contributing editor at Catapult, and the former Essays Editor for Longreads. She edited the anthologies Goodbye to All That: Writers on Loving & Leaving NY and Never Can Say Goodbye: Writers on Their Unshakable Love for NY. She teaches creative nonfiction at Wilkes University, Catapult and Bay Path University. She publishes three newsletters: Oldster Magazine, Adventures in "Journalism," and Memoir Monday. Her memoir-in-essays, And You May Find Yourself... will be published by Heliotrope in June 2022. More links: "Personal Space," Sari's talk show about memoir on LitHub: https://lithub.com/tag/personal-space/ Sari's latest from "How's the Writing Going?" (her interview column in Catapult's "Don't Write Alone" series): https://catapult.co/dont-write-alone/stories/hows-the-writing-going-r-o-kwon-a-conversation-with-sari-botton Mentioned in this episode: Matthew Salesses's Fine Lines essay: https://longreads.com/2019/04/22/to-grieve-is-to-carry-another-time/ Alexander Chee's essay, the first that Sari commissioned and edited at Longreads: https://longreads.com/2016/04/18/our-well-regulated-militia/ Kingston Writers' Studio: https://www.kingstonwritersstudio.com Join our free Resort community, full of resources and support for writers, here: https://community.theresortlic.com/ More information about The Resort can be found here: https://www.theresortlic.com/ Cabana Chats is hosted by Resort founder Catherine LaSota. Our podcast editor is Craig Eley, and our music is by Pat Irwin. Special thanks to Resort assistant Nadine Santoro. FULL TRANSCRIPTS for Cabana Chats podcast episodes are available in the free Resort network: https://community.theresortlic.com/ Follow us on social media! @TheResortLIC

In today's episode, we interview authors Ada Hoffmann (The Outside, The Fallen) and R.B. Lemberg (The Four Profound Weaves, Birdverse). We talk about their fiction and get deep into neurodiversity and queer and trans representation in speculative fiction, discussing internality, pacing, trauma, and who gets to tell their own stories--and how.Learn more about Ada Hoffmann on Twitter: @xasymptoteOr at: Ada-Hoffmann.com or AdaHoffmann.substack.comLearn more about R.B. Lemberg on Twitter: @RB_Lemberg On Instagram: @RBLemberg Or at: rblemberg.net  or patreon.com/rblembergAnd, check out 25 Essential Notes on Craft from Matthew Salesses an article referenced by Ada Hoffmann in this episode.

Coming to us all the way from South Korea, Lemon, written by multi-award winning author Kwon Yeo-sun, is a short novel translated by Janet Hong. While the plot centres around the tragic and unsolved murder of a beautiful adolescent, Kim Hae-on, the story is about the people in her life who are left to grapple with grief in their own personal ways. Told from three perspectives over the course of two decades, we are privy to the inner life and turmoil of Kim's younger sister, Da-on, who has experienced so much loss at such a young age. 'A confounding masterpiece... One of the most profound page-turners you will ever encounter.' Matthew Salesses, author of Craft in the Real World Lemon by Kwon Yeo-sun is published by Head of Zeus and available now in all good bookshops. We recommend buying from your local indie or you can get it from our shop. Podcast produced and edited by Megan Bay Dorman Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

An episode for our times, today's show features Matthew Salesses in conversation with Grant and Brooke about his newest book, Craft in the Real World. Listen in as he unpacks the inherent biases of how the dominant culture teaches and writes and thinks about craft. Matthew's book addresses how and why craft inextricable from identity and lived experience—bringing some explosive new energy to our thinking about craft that's both empowering and long overdue.

MATTHEW SALESSES is the author of three novels, Disappear Doppelgänger Disappear, The Hundred-Year Flood, and I'm Not Saying, I'm Just Saying, and a forthcoming essay collection. He was adopted from Korea and currently lives in Iowa. This episode is brought to you by the House of CHANEL, creator of the iconic J12 sports watch. Always in motion, the J12 travels through time without ever losing its identity. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We have a special interview with author Matthew Salesses, conducted by writer and anthropologist May Ngo back in February. Together, they dissect Matthew’s book Craft in the Real World, and have deep conversations about making writing workshops more equally accessible and how to think about one’s audience. They question the concept of agency, and how stories of lack of agency can actually feel more grounding, as well as dig into difficult questions of responsibility to our communities as writers of color and people from marginalized communities, and the complexity of wanting to represent a community but also be free from expectation. This is also the last episode produced by AAWW AV Producer Robert Ouyang Rusli.

This week Nicole discusses some reflections after beginning to read two different books examining the antiquated notion of the Writer’s Workshop. Sign up to receive Friday Night Writes emails, including the link to the monthly Writing Prompt Party! https://mailchi.mp/cc1507dc3fbd/friday-night-writes Mentioned in this episode: Masterclass https://www.masterclass.com/homepage AWP Bookshop https://bookshop.org/shop/AWP CRAFT IN THE REAL WORLD by Matthew Salesses https://bookshop.org/books/craft-in-the-real-world-rethinking-fiction-writing-and-workshopping/9781948226806?aid=12141&listref=virtual-awp-pedagogy THE ANTI-RACIST WRITING WORKSHOP by Felicia Rose Chavez https://bookshop.org/books/the-anti-racist-writing-workshop-how-to-decolonize-the-creative-classroom/9781642592672?aid=12141&listref=virtual-awp-pedagogy  Introduction to Friday Night Writes with Stop Writing Alone https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2syi6s1pDYs&t=1s  Join the Stop Writing Alone with Nicole Rivera FB Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/2205774733034348/ Stop Writing Alone Bookshop https://bookshop.org/shop/Stopwritingalone  NV Rivera YouTube Channel https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCpPlp1EVzQhDFPdGp5w2KoQ?view_as=subscriber  Stay connected to learn about all Stop Writing Alone stuff -- get on Nicole’s email list: https://mailchi.mp/ff8df93e57dc/penpals  Buy Nicole a coffee (AKA support the podcast!) https://ko-fi.com/stopwritingalone   Places to connect to the STOP WRITING ALONE community and introduce yourself: Stop Writing Alone FB Page: https://www.facebook.com/stopwritingalone/ Join the Stop Writing Alone with Nicole Rivera FB Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/2205774733034348/ Stop Writing Alone website: https://stopwritingalone.com/ Join the Stop Writing Alone email list: https://mailchi.mp/ff8df93e57dc/penpals  Stop Writing Alone Instagram account https://www.instagram.com/stopwritingalone/  Nicole’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/nv_rivera  The Stop Writing Alone voice number (call to introduce yourself!): (646) 907-9607    When you find a group of people who lift you up on a daily basis, it is important to share their awesome. Here are links to the women in Nicole’s Mastermind group (currently going by the name The Voxer Vixens!). Please support these women who do so much to support Nicole on a daily basis! Kim A. Flodin https://www.kelekilove.com/  Lisa Murray https://ihavedreamsdammit.com/ Claire Oldham West https://slimmingstories.podbean.com/ Johanna Jaquez-Peralta https://www.instagram.com/latina_livin_keto/ Emma Isaacs https://www.instagram.com/emmaisaacsdesign/ 

Bestselling novelist Matthew Salesses joins co-hosts Whitney Terrell and V.V. Ganeshananthan to talk about the politics, history, and context driving different modes of teaching fiction writing. After sharing an excerpt from his new book Craft in the Real World, Salesses explains how the traditional creative writing workshop model fails marginalized writers, and why examining craft questions through a range of lenses should matter to both writers and readers. He also reads from his new novel Disappear Doppelgänger Disappear, which is a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award. To hear the full episode, subscribe through iTunes, Google Play, Stitcher, Spotify, or your favorite podcast app (include the forward slashes when searching). You can also listen by streaming from the player below. Check out video excerpts from our interviews at LitHub's Virtual Book Channel and Fiction/Non/Fiction's YouTube Channel, and don't miss our brand-new website: https://www.fnfpodcast.net/ This podcast is produced by Andrea Tudhope. Selected readings: Matthew Salesses Craft in the Real World Disappear Doppelgänger Disappear The Hundred-Year Flood I'm Not Saying, I'm Just Saying Different Racisms: On Stereotypes, the Individual, and Asian American Masculinity The Last Repatriate   Others: Tiger Writing by Gish Jen No-No Boy by John Okada Who Killed Vincent Chin? (documentary) by Christine Choy and Renee Tajima-Pena Drumline (film) by Charles Stone III A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood “Unsilencing the Writing Workshop” by Beth Nguyen Native Son by Richard Wright Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time 3D for Nintendo 3DS Books by Haruki Murakami Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Matthew Salesses, author of Craft in the Real World: Rethinking Fiction Writing and Workshopping (Catapult). This week’s Write the Book Prompt was generously suggested by my guest, Matthew Salesses. This comes from his book, Craft in the Real World: Rethinking Fiction Writing and Workshopping (Catapult), and is the tenth in his series of revision exercises. “Add a major source of outside complication to your story. That is, add something big that comes in and forces itself on the plot, something like a toxic spill or an earthquake or a war or a rabid dog or a serial killer or a rapture. Don’t make this a small insertion, but something that truly changes the story. You might think about what large outside force would connect thematically to the character arc. In other words, how can story arc and character arc inform each other and help each other to resonate? A toxic spill (and subsequent cover-up) might help a story in which a character is hiding a secret that would reveal him to be a dangerous person.” Good luck with your work in the coming week, and tune in next week for another prompt or suggestion. Music Credit: Aaron Shapiro 668

How has the pandemic shed light on the way we work, how we're productive, and the value of our labour? Margrit & Eileen chat about how we view labour and productivity in a capitalist society and how our value as human beings is often linked to how productive we are. The flip side, isn't true, though. Artists, athletes, and people from marginalized communities are regularly expected to work without compensation or recognition. This has been so obviously highlighted by the lack of material support given to frontline workers during the pandemic.  Recommendation of the Episode: Margrit has been reading Craft in the Real World by Matthew Salesses. Salesses is an international adoptee, born in Korea and raised by a white family in the US. He writes about many accepted storytelling conventions are grounded in Western imperialism and ideas. Whereas, Asian and African stories that follow different storytelling structures are often dismissed as not worthy of publications.  Question of the Episode: How do you measure productivity? How do you value labour?  Join the conversation on Twitter at @World_ofStories or email us directly at worldofstoriespodcast@gmail.com.  Full transcript is available at worldofstories.org.

Matthew Salesses is the author of three novels -- one written in Flash Fiction -- and the writing handbook "Craft In The Real World". In this episode we talk about writing rules, audience, how to give and receive feedback and what it was like to write a flash fiction novel.   Photo credit: Grace Salesses

Today we talk with Matthew Salesses (CRAFT IN THE REAL WORLD), author, professor, and dad. Topics include: his amazing daughter, learning how to write what you want to write, the good news about these young bucks in today's workshops, how Matt gets work done as a single father, HOW MATT HAS SURVIVED THIS ENTIRE PANDEMIC ON ONE TANK OF GAS WE SH*T YOU NOT. Salesses is the bestselling author of The Hundred-Year Flood, an Amazon Best Book of September and Kindle First pick, an Adoptive Families Best Book of 2015, and a Best Book of the season at Buzzfeed, Refinery29, and Gawker, among others, and Disappear Doppelgänger Disappear, a Best Book of the Year at Thrillist.com. His latest book, Craft in the Real World, explores alternative models of craft and the writing workshop, especially for marginalized writers. His previous books include I’m Not Saying, I’m Just Saying; Different Racisms: On Stereotypes, the Individual, and Asian American Masculinity; and The Last Repatriate.

Matthew's latest book is Craft in the Real World: Rethinking Fiction Writing and Workshopping. He and Courtney discuss what's wrong with the way we talk about our work, how we can do better, and the most ill-used terms in craft discussions—some of which Matthew has banned from his own workshops. In the bonus segment, Matthew talks about the workshop experience that led Matthew down a two-year dead end for his own novel in progress, and how he got himself turned back around. Bonus segments are available to Patreon subscribers at patreon.com/wmfapodcast. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Matthew Salesses discusses ‘Craft in the Real World: Rethinking Fiction Writing and Workshopping’ (Catapult, Jan. 19), “fresh view of teaching craft to writers of diverse backgrounds” (Kirkus). Then our editors offer reading recommendations for the week, with books by B.B. Alston, Malinda Lo, Gabriel Byrne, and Anna North.

Matthew Salesses is the guest. His new novel, Disappear Doppelgänger Disappear, is available from Little A Publishing. This is Matthew's second time on the program. He first appeared in Episode 145 on February 3, 2013. Salesses is the bestselling author of The Hundred-Year Flood, an Amazon Best Book of September and Kindle First pick, an Adoptive Families Best Book of 2015, and a Best Book of the season at Buzzfeed, Refinery29, and Gawker, among others. Forthcoming in 2021 are a craft book, Craft in the Real World, and a collection of essays, Own Story. His previous books include I’m Not Saying, I’m Just Saying; Different Racisms: On Stereotypes, the Individual, and Asian American Masculinity; and The Last Repatriate. Salesses was adopted from Korea. In 2015 Buzzfeed named him one of 32 Essential Asian American Writers. His essays have been published in Best American Essays 2020, NPR Code Switch, The New York Times Motherlode, VICE.com, Gay Magazine, and many other venues. His short fiction has appeared in Glimmer Train, American Short Fiction, PEN/Guernica, and Witness, among others. He has received awards and fellowships from the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, Glimmer Train, Mid-American Review, [PANK], HTMLGIANT, IMPAC, Inprint, and elsewhere.  He is currently an Assistant Professor of English at Coe College, where he teaches fiction writing and Asian American literature. He earned a Ph.D. in Literature and Creative Writing from the University of Houston and an M.F.A. in Fiction from Emerson College. He serves on the editorial boards of Green Mountains Review and Machete (an imprint of The Ohio State University Press), and has held editorial positions at Pleiades, The Good Men Project, Gulf Coast, and Redivider. He has read and lectured widely at conferences and universities and on TV and radio, including PBS, NPR, Al Jazeera America, various MFA programs, and the Tin House, Kundiman, Writers @ Work, and Boldface writing conferences. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Matthew Salesses is here today and I’m so thrilled to share our conversation with you. He has a ton of insightful things to share with us. We talk about how coming out of the fog is an act of radicalization, we discuss issues of race, and why he’s chosen to be so open and vulnerable on Twitter. We also touch on Dad jokes, and why adoptees often have a darker sense of humour. Full Show Notes Here Connect With Us Matthew Salesses: Twitter | Instagram | matthewsalesses.com Haley Radke: Twitter | Instagram | Facebook Adoptees On: Twitter | Instagram | Facebook Subscribe Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | iHeart Radio | Spotify | Stitcher | YouTube Support Adoptees On One Time Donation | Monthly | Secret Facebook Group Connect Monthly Newsletter | Send a Note or Record a Voicemail

In Matthew Salesses’ Disappear Doppelgänger Disappear, protagonist Matt Kim is battling himself in a world that would rather have his double if it suits their expectations of what makes the model minority Asian American. When Matt Kim discovers his double has vanished, he fears he will be next. He sets off on to find out what happened to the other Matt and discover himself.

Matthew Salesses is a writer based in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Matthew’s new novel, Disappear Doppelgänger Disappear, is darkly funny, unsettling in the best way, and wholly original, the story of a Korean American man struggling simply to exist as he feels himself literally disappearing. In our conversation, Matthew and I discussed his book, the trap of the first-person perspective, and what it means to take responsibility. Then in the second segment, we talked about the meaning of love. (Conversation recorded July 8, 2020.) Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | RadioPublic | Stitcher | Spotify | TuneIn | RSS Support: Support our Patreon | Review on Apple Podcasts | Review on Podchaser Share: Tweet this episode | Share to Facebook Connect: Newsletter | Email | Facebook | Twitter | Tumblr Show Notes: Matthew Salesses Matthew Salesses - Disappear Doppelgänger Disappear Thank You Books - Author Event: Laura Van Den Berg in conversation with Matthew Salesses (August 20, 2020) Prairie Lights - Reading: Matthew Salesses and Lyz Lenz (August 27, 2020) Belmont Books - Virtual Event: Margot Lives and Matthew Salesses (September 16, 2020) Review Disappear Doppelgänger Disappear: Amazon | Goodreads Julio Cortázar Matthew Salesses - Love and Silence (Catapult column) Matthew Salesses - “What Does It Mean to Write Asian American Literature?” David Eng & Shinhee Han - “A Dialogue on Racial Melancholia” Han Kang - The Vegetarian Margot Livesey - The House on Fortune Street Olga Tokarczuk - Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead Byung-Chul Han - The Agony of Eros Kahlil Gibran - “On Marriage” Jacques Lacan Lyz Lenz - Belabored: A Vindication of the Rights of Pregnant Women Elisa Gabbert - The Unreality of Memory Margot Livesey - The Boy in the Field Transcript Episode Credits Editing/Mixing: Mike Sakasegawa Music: Podington Bear Transcription: Shea Aguinaldo

We are so pleased to speak with writer and editor Vivian Lee about the importance of literary community, what it was like for her to work in publishing at Little A/Amazon, and how our industry has changed over the past decade. We also discuss California Pizza Kitchen, fusion cuisine, and the immigrant experience--finding the perfect Mother's Day present for the mother who traveled 7,000 miles for you--and how Vivian's writing and editing processes start with specific ideas and images and branch out to address the larger questions, both in the piece and in life. Vivian Lee is a writer and book editor. Her book list includes Matthew Salesses' The Hundred-Year Flood, Viet Dinh's After Disasters (PEN/Faulkner Finalist), Naima Coster's Halsey Street (Kirkus Prize Finalist), and Harold Schechter's Hell's Princess (A Washington Post Bestseller). She specializes in literary fiction and narrative nonfiction, including true crime, memoir, essays, and long-form reporting. In both fiction and nonfiction, she is interested in a strong story or narrative usually dealing with identity or relationships of any kind (family, personal versus body/nature/man. She is a 2018 PW Rising Star Honoree. Her writing can be found at The Los Angeles Times, Eater, ELLE.com, Catapult, and more. She graduated from the University of California, Irvine with a BA in Literary Journalism and from the New School University in New York with a MFA in Creative Writing (Non-Fiction). Originally from Los Angeles, she now resides in Queens. You can meet with her at https://manuscriptacademy.com/vivian-lee, and you can listen to the Carly Rae Jepsen song she mentions, For Sure, here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I7SVEmuAsvI

Christian Kiefer had great reservations about writing his beautiful new book, PHANTOMS. He tells James how he found the story, and the steps he took to tell it. They also talk about capturing bear consciousness, being haunted by one's own work, finding joy in music and writing, and those troublesome flugelhornists. And then our old friend Christopher Boucher discusses his new novel, BIG GIANT FLOATING HEAD.  - Christian Kiefer: https://www.facebook.com/christian.kiefer.9/ Buy PHANTOMS: https://www.indiebound.org/book/9780871404817 Also by: THE INFINITE TIDES, THE ANIMALS, ONE DAY SOON TIME WILL HAVE NO PLACE LEFT TO HIDE.  Christian and James discuss:  Matt Salesses  MEMOIRS OF A GEISHA by Arthur Golden  SNOW FALLING ON CEDARS by David Guterson  Jamil Zaki  Deena Drewis  Nouvella Books  ORIENTALISM by Edward Said  CULTURE AND IMPERIALISM by Edward Said  NOTHING EVER DIES by Viet Thanh Nguyen  Vintage Contemporaries  Tobias Wolff  Robert Stone  Richard Ford  Tim O'Brien  SOPHIE'S CHOICE by William Styron  ABSALOM, ABSALOM by William Faulkner  Henry James  Nathaniel Hawthorne  Emile Zola  Lauren Groff  San Francisco Zoo  GHOST TANTRAS by Michael McClure  Benjamin Percy  Ingmar Bergman  Andrei Tarkovsky  THE WHITE DEATH by Gabriel Urza THE LAST REPATRIATE by Matthew Salesses  THE SENSUALIST by Daniel Torday  HOW TO SHAKE THE OTHER MAN by Derek Palacio  IF YOU'RE NOT YET LIKE ME by Eden Lepucki  FLY-OVER STATE by Emma Straub  A FAMILIAR BEAST by Panio Gianopoulos Miles Davis  John Coltrane  WILDERNESS OF MIRRORS, Lawrence English Nicholas Brittell  THE DISINTEGRATION LOOPS, William Basinksi  Lyle Lovett  George Jones JESUS' SON by Denis Johnson PURE HOLLYWOOD by Christine Schutt  Barry Hannah  GERHARD RICHTER PAINTING (documentary)  John Keene  Magnolia Electric Company  Jason Molina  CANADA by Richard Ford  Sewanee  - Christopher Boucher: http://www.christopherboucher.net/ Buy BIG GIANT FLOATING HEAD: https://www.indiebound.org/book/9781612197579 Also by: HOW TO KEEP YOUR VOLKSWAGEN ALIVE, GOLDEN DELICIOUS.  James and Christopher discuss:  Melville House  Kurt Vonnegut  THE PARIS REVIEW  Ben Greenman  Boston College  Oregon State  "People Like That Are The Only People Here" by Lorrie Moore  "A Good Man is Hard to Find" by Flannery O'Connor  "Araby" by James Joyce  Looney Tunes  Elmer Fudd Bugs Bunny  - http://tkpod.com / tkwithjs@gmail.com / Twitter: @JamesScottTK Instagram: tkwithjs / Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/tkwithjs/

In this episode, Mark, Filip and Diana are joined by special guest and writer Minyoung Lee to discuss the psychological phenomenon called Impostor Syndrome. They share their own stories about feeling it, talk about what it is and how it effects Asian Americans, and share some advice on how to handle it. *This is a bonus episode for Patreon subscribers. To subscribe, please go to: www.patreon.com/planamag TWITTER: Minyoung (@minyoungleeis) Diana (@discoveryduck) Mark (@snbatman) Filip (@filipgwriting) REFERENCED RESOURCES: What is imposter syndrome? Definition: a psychological pattern in which an individual doubts his or her accomplishments and has a persistent internalized fear of being exposed as a "fraud” From: Langford, Joe; Clance, Pauline Rose (Fall 1993). "The impostor phenomenon: recent research findings regarding dynamics, personality and family patterns and their implications for treatment" (PDF). Psychotherapy: Theory, Research, Practice, Training. 30 (3): 495–501. doi:10.1037/0033-3204.30.3.495 To Grieve Is to Carry Another Time by Matthew Salesses : https://longreads.com/2019/04/22/to-grieve-is-to-carry-another-time/ SUBMISSIONS & COMMENTS: editor.planamag@gmail.com EFPA Opening Theme: "Fuck Out My Face" by Ayekay (open.spotify.com/artist/16zQKaDN5XgHAhfOJHTigJ)

Today's reading comes from a piece in Electric Literature called Why Korean Writers Love Alexander Chee, by R.O. Kwon, Alice Sola Kim, Nicole Chung, and Matthew Salesses. Wake Me Up Gently is an alarm clock that will help you start your day in a more mindful place. You can learn more at wakemeupgently.com – and don't forget to sign up for the newsletter for updates!

In this grab bag of a Labor Day podcast, the trio of Oxford, Mark, and Sammi (a returning guest from Ep. 36: Difficulties in Asian Women-to-Women Dialogues About WMAF) go from lauding the new John Cho movie "Searching" to eventually getting fed up at how neglected poor Asian Americans are in our current social and political climate. Along the way, we diss the Racist OC Barbie Lawyer and #walkaway Youtube nano-celebrity, Zach Hing. Intro/Outro Song: "Think (ft. Jay Park)" by Reddy Intro Voice Track: John Cho on His Parents & New Movie "Searching" (Jimmy Kimmel Live!) TWITTER: Oxford (@oxford_kondo) Mark (@snbatman) REFERENCED RESOURCES: Amy Yu abduction in Allentown, Pennsylvania: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-nation/wp/2018/03/18/a-mom-suspected-her-teen-daughter-was-dating-a-45-year-old-police-found-them-together-in-mexico/?utm_term=.81cfa90fbac2 Abduction and murder of Yingying Zhang at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign: http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/breaking/ct-met-chinese-scholar-ui-kidnapping-20180116-story.html California Lawyer Makes Racially-Charged Comments Over ‘Crazy Rich Asians’: https://deadline.com/2018/09/crazy-rich-asians-searching-christina-ignatius-racist-orange-county-diversity-inclusion-asian-amerians-1202455928/ The Asian American Age (by Ross Douthat): https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/01/opinion/asian-american-harvard-lawsuit.html The 9.9 Percent Is the New American Aristocracy: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2018/06/the-birth-of-a-new-american-aristocracy/559130/ Zach Hing's #walkaway story: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CTq-hkR-yAc "Not My White Savior" by Julayne Lee: https://www.amazon.com/Not-My-White-Savior-Memoir/dp/1945572434 "The Hundred-Year Flood" by Matthew Salesses: https://www.amazon.com/Hundred-Year-Flood-Matthew-Salesses/dp/1477829547 "A Cruelty Special To Our Species: Poems" by Emily Yoon: https://www.amazon.com/Cruelty-Special-Our-Species-Poems/dp/0062843680 "My Year of Rest and Relaxation" by Ottessa Moshfegh: https://www.amazon.com/Year-Rest-Relaxation-Ottessa-Moshfegh/dp/0525522115

Well this is timely! In the year that has come and gone since the start of Plan A, we’ve broached topics that have either been ignored or suppressed by the mainstream Asian American community. But it’s one thing to discuss them; it’s another to take positive actions to fix problems. So the question for discontent Asian American guys is: what steps are necessary to finally find a way out of the bog of anger that exists online and start improving our future? Oxford, Mark, Q, and Filip take a shot at answering this all-important question. Intro Song: "Work (Instrumental)" by The Quiett Intro Voice Track: Jeremy Lin's press conference, answering question by Kevin Kreider (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=paSH0Ip9pcU) TWITTER: Oxford (@oxford_kondo) Mark (@snbatman) Q (@allyouneedis_q) Filip (@filipgwriting) REFERENCED RESOURCES: Ivan Krastev on European Meritocracy: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/17/opinion/the-rise-and-fall-of-european-meritocracy.html Hanh Nguyen's article on lack of Asian male characters in "To All The Boys I've Loved Before": https://www.indiewire.com/2018/08/to-all-the-boys-ive-loved-before-netflix-jenny-han-no-asian-male-love-interest-1201995975/ Vulture calls out "Master of None" for lack of non-white female love interests: http://www.vulture.com/2015/11/master-of-none-and-interracial-dating-on-tv.html Why Are Brown Men So Infatuated With White Women Onscreen?: https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/imransiddiquee/why-are-brown-men-so-infatuated-with-white-women-onscreen Brown Men Have Reduced Brown Women To A Punchline: https://qz.com/india/1016554/aziz-ansari-hasan-minhaj-kumail-nanjiani-brown-actors-have-reduced-brown-women-to-a-punchline/ "Private Citizens" by Tony Tulathimutte: https://www.amazon.com/Private-Citizens-Novel-Tony-Tulathimutte/dp/0062399101 "The Dead Do Not Improve" by Jay Caspian Kang: https://www.amazon.com/Dead-Do-Not-Improve-Novel/dp/0307953890/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1535338166&sr=1-1&keywords=dead+do+not+improve "The Hundred-Year Flood" by Matthew Salesses: https://www.amazon.com/Hundred-Year-Flood-Matthew-Salesses/dp/1477829547

In this episode of AAWW Radio, join us as four authors—Lee Herrick, Tracy O’Neill, Matthew Salesses, and Sung J. Woo-read from new books that grapple with the realities of adoption, broken families, and the journeys we take to find out where we belong. The authors discuss the identity politics that go hand-in-hand with having a white name and a Korean self, small victories when it comes to adoptee visibility in everyday life, and the importance of seeing your own reflection. This conversation is moderated by Shinhee Han, who teaches Asian American literature at Columbia University and has written extensively on transnational adoption. This event was co-sponsored by Also Known As, Sejong, and FCCNY.

Episode 12 The show where we talk about what we like begins with What’s Happening What’s Up, a dive to what’s hot in culture. This week Taylor and Jacob discuss Arrested Development season 5 and whether the show still remains a standard of good taste. They then get into weekly recs Taylor Paterson dir. Jim Jarmusch Now available on Amazon Prime Jacob “The Rules of the Asian Body in America” by Matthew Salesses https://medium.com/s/unrulybodies/the-body-thats-too-asian-and-too-sick-for-america-3b43cc05091c Taylor “The Curious Case of Bryan Colangelo and the Secret Twitter Account” by Ben Detrick https://www.theringer.com/nba/2018/5/29/17406750/bryan-colangelo-philadelphia-76ers-twitter-joel-embiid-anonymous-markelle-fultz Jacob Dissect (podcast) https://dissectpodcast.com READING MEETING Jacob is reading “The Power” by Naomi Alderman and thinks it’s fantastic. They also get into your recommendations, submit yours by emailing us at goodtastepod@gmail.com Follow us here: instagram.com/goodtastepod twitter.com/@jacobthewilson twitter.com/@taylorjaywilson Email us: goodtastepod@gmail.com Leave a review and something you want us to check out and we’ll do so! Click here: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/good-taste/id1331981072?mt=2 Our advertisers: Our intro song is by Koi https://open.spotify.com/artist/6MhwQdck5uQDaUUf0wI1kj?si=vzuRLjPCSBSPoCi6wpPOOA Rival Sports Club https://www.spreaker.com/show/rival-sports-club

Episode 12The show where we talk about what we like begins with What’s Happening What’s Up, a dive to what’s hot in culture. This week Taylor and Jacob discuss Arrested Development season 5 and whether the show still remains a standard of good taste. They then get into weekly recsTaylorPaterson dir. Jim Jarmusch Now available on Amazon PrimeJacob“The Rules of the Asian Body in America” by Matthew Salesses https://medium.com/s/unrulybodies/the-body-thats-too-asian-and-too-sick-for-america-3b43cc05091cTaylor“The Curious Case of Bryan Colangelo and the Secret Twitter Account” by Ben Detrickhttps://www.theringer.com/nba/2018/5/29/17406750/bryan-colangelo-philadelphia-76ers-twitter-joel-embiid-anonymous-markelle-fultzJacob Dissect (podcast)https://dissectpodcast.comREADING MEETINGJacob is reading “The Power” by Naomi Alderman and thinks it’s fantastic. They also get into your recommendations, submit yours by emailing us at goodtastepod@gmail.com Follow us here:instagram.com/goodtastepodtwitter.com/@jacobthewilson twitter.com/@taylorjaywilsonEmail us: goodtastepod@gmail.comLeave a review and something you want us to check out and we’ll do so! Click here: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/good-taste/id1331981072?mt=2Our advertisers:Our intro song is by Koihttps://open.spotify.com/artist/6MhwQdck5uQDaUUf0wI1kj?si=vzuRLjPCSBSPoCi6wpPOOARival Sports Club https://www.spreaker.com/show/rival-sports-club

In her second novel, BURY WHAT WE CANNOT TAKE, Kirstin Chen depicts a family in China under the tightening rule of Mao. She tells James about her choice to tell the story when and how she did, along with trying to make people happy, learning to craft endings from short stories, dealing with cultural tourism, and, of course, writing in a cave in a museum. Plus, Michael Nye on the AWP conference, selling your book, scheduling your day, and writing longhand.    - Kirstin Chen: http://kirstinchen.com/ Kirstin and James discuss:  NTU-NAC National Writer in Residence in Singapore Little A  Matthew Salesses  Emerson College  Columbia University  NYU  Chairman Mao  The Great Famine  The Great Leap Forward  Drum Wave Inlet  Michelle Brower  Jamie Quatro  Zadie Smith  Vanessa Hua  The San Francisco Chronicle  -  Michael Nye: http://mpnye.com/  Michael and James discuss:  BOULEVARD MAGAZINE  NATURAL BRIDGE: A JOURNAL OF CONTEMPORARY LITERATURE  University of Missouri in St. Louis  AWP Conference  Annette Bening  AMERICAN BEAUTY  Maggie Smith  Ohio State University  Ruth Awad  TINY LETTER  RIVER STYX MAGAZINE  Annie Hartnett DEEP WORK by Cal Newport   - http://tkpod.com / tkwithjs@gmail.com / Twitter: @JamesScottTK Instagram: tkwithjs / Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/tkwithjs/

After embracing her desire to write in her thirties and putting herself on a steep learning curve, Rachel Cantor found her voice with two lively and funny novels, A HIGHLY UNLIKELY SCENARIO and GOOD ON PAPER. She and James debate whether it's harder to make people laugh or bring them to tears, and she details the difficulties of translation and the Arnold Schwarzenegger approach to novel writing. Plus, Meredith Scott describes the great work of the Children's Literacy Foundation (CLiF) and, finally, her daughter, Zoey Irwin, talks about her book club and why reading is important for kids.    Rachel Cantor: http://rachelcantor.com/  Rachel and James Discuss: James Joyce  T.S. Eliot  Agatha Christie  Tim Burton (film director)  WAR AND PEACE by Leo Tolstoy  Ross Macdonald  THE ARTIST'S WAY by Julia Cameron WHAT IF? WRITING EXERCISES FOR FICTION WRITERS by Anne Bernays and Pamela Painter  Leslie Epstein  Theo Epstein  CASABLANCA (film)  REDIVIDER  ONE STORY  Matthew Salesses  Melville House Italo Calvino  Virginia Center for the Creative Arts (VCCA)  EILEEN by Ottessa Moshfegh  HOMESICK FOR ANOTHER WORLD: STORIES by Ottessa Moshfegh  Katie Kitamura  WE, THE DROWNED by Carsten Jensen  The Bronte siblings  Arnold Schwarzenegger  - Children's Literacy Foundation (CLiF): http://clifonline.org/ Meredith and James discuss: We Need Diverse Books  First Book  The Eric Carle Museum  Elephant and Piggie books by Mo Willems Everybody Wins - Zoey and James discuss: The Harry Potter books by J.K. Rowling THE LAND OF STORIES by Chris Colfer SHILOH by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor -   http://tkpod.com / tkwithjs@gmail.com / Twitter: @JamesScottTK Instagram: tkwithjs / Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/tkwithjs/

Javier tells James about his journey to the United States at the age of 9. They discuss the power of teachers, the Undocupoets Campaign, transcendent readings, struggling to find an ending, and his collection of poems, UNACCOMPANIED (fall 2017). Then, Jennifer De Leon talks about opportunities for teen writers, #WeNeedDiverseBooks, and her experiences teaching in the YAWP program at Grub Street in Boston.     Javier and James Discuss: Yusef Komunyakaa Sharon Olds   Alejandro Zambra  Valeria Luiselli  Dick Scanlan Roberto Bolano  Gabriel Garcia Marquez  Jorge Luis Borges  ONE STORY  Yaddo  MacDowell Colony  Pablo Neruda  Rebecca Faust  Squaw Valley Writers' Workshops  Napa Valley Writers' Conference  Bread Loaf Writers' Conference  Alberto Rios  BIG FISH by Daniel Wallace  UC- Berkeley  NYU  Olive B. O'Connor  Peter Balakian Carolyn Forche Wallace Stegner Fellowship  Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellowship UndocuPoets Campaign Sibling Rivalry Press  Wil S. Hylton  Matthew Salesses  Monica Sok   Jennifer and James Discuss: YAWP (Young Adult Writers Program) Grub Street Val Wang  Celeste Ng Teen Ink  826  WriteBoston  New England Young Writers' Conference  Champlain College Young Writers' Conference  Iowa Young Writers' Studio  Sewanee Young Writers' Conference  Reggie Gibson  Junot Diaz  ROLL OF THUNDER, HEAR MY CRY by Mildred D. Taylor  #WeNeedDiverseBooks  VONA (Voices of Our Nation Arts Foundation)  -  http://tkpod.com / tkwithjs@gmail.com / Twitter: @JamesScottTK Instagram: tkwithjs / Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/tkwithjs/

Functionally Literate Radio Episode 069, "Matthew Salesses." Recorded on 1/14/16 at WPRK, 91.5 FM in Winter Park, Florida. Featuring a conversation with author Matthew Salesses. Hosted by Ryan Rivas and Jared Silvia. You can find out more about Matthew Salesses here: http://matthewsalesses.com/ Featuring music by Swamburger. Intro music by Frenic & Anitek. Edited under CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 US. creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/us/

Matthew Salesses' novella The Last Repatriate tells the story of Theodore Dickerson, a prisoner who eventually returns to his home in Virginia in the midst of the McCarthy Era. He is welcomed back as a hero, though he has not returned unscathed. The lasting effects of the POW camp and troubles with his ex-fiancée complicate his new marriage as he struggles to readjust to the Virginia he holds dear. The letter from Teddy's fiancée is read by Joanne Barker.

We talk with author Matthew Salesses about flash fiction, in response to complaints we lodged a while back about that genre. Also we answer listener questions about books we hate, and writing advice we dole out but don't follow. Plus, Mike's still mad about losing the 6th-grade science fair, and Tom still carries a grudge against The Decameron, because of a teacher who gave him the finger. For more, visit us at bookfightpod.com.

Matthew Salesses is the guest. He is the author of two chapbooks, Our Island of Epidemics and We Will Take What We Can Get, and his new novel is called I'm Not Saying, I'm Just Saying, which is published by Civil Coping Mechanisms.  Matt Bell raves “In Matt Salesses’s smart novel-in-shorts, a newly-minted father flees telling his own story by any means necessary—by sarcasm, by denial, by playful and precise wordplay—rarely allowing space for his emerging feelings to linger. But the truth of who we might be is not so easily escaped, and it is in the accumulation of many such moments that our narrator, like us, is revealed: both the people we have been, and the better people we might be lucky enough to one day hope to become.” And Catherine Chung says “Matthew Salesses has written an extraordinary and startlingly original novel that explores connection and disconnection, the claims and limitations of the self, and the shifting terrain of truth. Poetic, unforgettable, shot through with fury and yearning, I’m Not Saying, I’m Just Saying captures in clear and chilling flashes our capacity for the cruelty and tenderness of love.” Also in this episode:  a conversation with Reality Hunger author David Shields. His new book, How Literature Saved My Life, is now availalble from Knopf. And later this year, in September, he will publish The Private War of J.D. Salinger, co-authored by Shane Salerno. Monologue topics: mail, literary ambulance chasing, luck, cause and effect, beautiful people. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices