Podcast appearances and mentions of tess gunty

Ruth Dickey, Executive Director of the National Book Foundation, joins us to talk about her connection to the organization, the process of judging the National Book Awards, who she is as a reader and more with Miwa Messer, host of Poured Over. We end this episode with TBR Top Off book recommendations from Marc, Jamie, and Donald. This episode of Poured Over was hosted by Miwa Messer and mixed by Harry Liang.                      New episodes land Tuesdays and Thursdays (with occasional Saturdays) here and on your favorite podcast app  Featured Books (Episode):  March: Book Three by John Lewis  Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward  Salvage the Bones by Jesmyn Ward  Brown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline Woodson  My Friends by Hisham Matar  Interior Chinatown by Charles Yu  Chain Gang All-Stars by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah  The Rabbit Hutch by Tess Gunty   Wandering Stars by Tommy Orange  Featured Books (TBR Top Off):  The Great Fire by Shirley Hazzard  Behind the Beautiful Forever by Katherine Boo  The Shipping News by Annie Proulx 

Our month-long celebration of our most-downloaded episodes continues with someone who lives in rare air. Tess Gunty's first published novel won the 2022 National Book Award. Emily's conversation with Tess goes deep on her journey toward writing “The Rabbit Hutch” and then what it was like to live in the world it created for Tess. A heavy challenge for an introvert. Tess also talks about the need to write about women who remain the main character in their own story.

Tess Gunty´s debut novel The Rabbit Hutch (in Pt: “O Contrário de Nada”), won the 2022 National Book Award for fiction, the Waterstones Debut Fiction Prize, it was a finalist for the 2023 John Leonard Prize, awarded by the National Book Critics Circle for a first book in any genre. Let's learn a little more about this talented author and take a peek at some of her favorite reads. The books Tess chose for our conversation: Enter Ghost, Isabella Hammad; Hurricane Season (Pt: “Temporada de furacões”), Fernanda Melchor; Winter in Sokcho, Elisa Shua Dusapin; Concerning the Future of souls - 99 stories of Azrael, Joy Williams. Other recommendations: Tolstoy and George Eliot; 99 stories of God, Joy Williams; Que Quick and the Dead, Joy Williams (Novel); The Visiting Privilege, Joy Williams (Short stories); The Changeling, Joy Williams. (Tess was listening to The Snowman, Joe Nesbo) I recommended: Flannery O´Connor; King Kong theory (and others), Virginie Despentes. Here are the books: www.wook.pt

Bereits vor über einem Jahr kam die Leseempfehlung unseres guten Freundes und ehemaligen Studio B Mitglieds Heiko Schramm in mein E-Mailpostfach, der anhand eines Artikels über eben jenes Buch der Meinung war, dass es auf meine Leseliste gehören könnte. Gedanklich immer in meinem Hinterkopf und auf meiner imaginären Liste war es nun kürzlich endlich soweit. Manche Bücher brauchen einfach ihre Zeit und die Leserin spürt, wenn der richtige Moment gekommen ist. Bereits letzten Sommer veröffentlichte der Verlag Kiepenheuer und Witsch Tess Guntys The rabbit hutch auf Deutsch unter dem Titel Der Kaninchenstall – wir sind entzückt.Zunächst war ich mir jedoch nicht sicher, ob ich das Buch wirklich besprechen möchte. Mein Kopf war nach der Lektüre derart voll und durcheinander, dass ich mir nicht sicher war, ob ich das Gelesene so für mich ordnen könnte, dass eine sinnvolle Rezension dabei herauskommen würde. Nun versuche ich es also.Tess Guntys Debütroman, an dem sie nach eigenen Aussagen circa fünf Jahre arbeitete, spielt in der fiktiven und ehemaligen Industriestadt Vacca Vale, die sich im Bundesstaat Indiana, also dem sogenannten Rust Belt befindet, in dem die Autorin selbst auch aufgewachsen ist. Die Handlung beschränkt sich auf drei Tage, an deren Ende die Handlungsstränge schließlich in einem Ereignis zusammenlaufen, jedoch erfährt die Leserin über Rückblenden auch immer wieder Einzelheiten über die Geschichten verschiedener Figuren. Im Zentrum steht dabei eine junge Frau namens Blandine, die eine Obsession für Mystikerinnen, speziell Hildegard von Bingen, hat. Sie lebt, wie viele andere, aber nicht alle handelnden Personen im Roman, im Appartementhaus La Lapinière Affordable Housing Complex, einst gegründet um bezahlbaren Wohnraum zu schaffen, der von seinen Bewohnern nunmehr nur „der Kaninchenstall“ genannt wird.Diesen nennen auch Blandines Mitbewohner ihr zu Hause. Drei junge Männer, die, so wie sie selbst auch, vorher in der Fürsorge waren, nun aber alt genug sind, um allein zu leben. Außerdem gibt es unter anderem noch Joan Kowalski, die in ihrem Berufsalltag Kommentare auf Nachrufe auf Unangemessenheit überprüft, oder beispielsweise ein älteres Ehepaar mit einer Aversion gegen Nagetiere. Die Menge an Informationen, die während des Romans über die einzelnen Figuren preisgegeben wird, ist dabei sehr unterschiedlich. Außerhalb des Kaninchenstalls besteht Tess Guntys Personal unter anderem aus dem alternden Kinderstar einer fünfzigerjahre Serie: Elsie Blitz sowie deren entfremdeten Sohn Moses Robert Blitz. Dies sind aber noch längst nicht alle Charaktere des Romans. Doch egal wie viel oder wenig die Leserin über jeden Einzelnen erfährt, sie alle sind wichtig und nur zusammen ergeben sie ein Bild.Es ist das Bild einer Gesellschaft und Gegend, die nach Jahren der wirtschaftlichen Blüte und des Reichtums – die längst der Vergangenheit angehören – dem Verfall preisgegeben sind und die Tess Guntys Meinung nach noch immer zu wenig Beachtung erfahren, wodurch die Menschen zum Zielobjekt für Politiker werden, die deren Notsituation ausnutzen und mit falschen Versprechungen locken. Es ist aber auch ein regelrechtes Wimmelbild der menschlichen Emotionen, Enttäuschungen, geplatzten Träume und Hoffnungen, in deren Mittelpunkt die junge Heldin Blandine, die einst Tiffany hieß, steht. Tess Gunty schreibt: „Jede Kreatur tut, was sie kann, mit den Ressourcen, die sie hat.“ Und genau so tun es auch ihre Protagonistinnen und Protagonisten, jede und jeder kämpft um seine Existenz, wenn nicht gar um seine Daseinsberechtigung. Als Lesende erlebt man ein Kaleidoskop der Innenansichten und auch äußerlichen Beschreibungen, dass einem schon mal schwindelig werden kann.Konsequent setzt Tess Gunty dies auch in der Form ihres Romans um. Es ist eine Kombination aus kürzeren und längeren Kapiteln in denen verschiedene Perspektiven ausgebreitet oder nur angerissen werden, es gibt Nachrufe die chatverlaufartig gestaltet sind, Illustrationen in Form von comicartigen Zeichnungen, die ihr Bruder für den Roman angefertigt hat und auch Zitate spielen immer wieder eine Rolle. Zu dieser äußerlich überladenen Form passt auch das thematisch unglaublich weite Spektrum des Romans. Da geht es zum Beispiel neben Missbrauch: „»Ich habe die Nase so voll«, sagt Blandine, »von Gewalt gegen Frauen, die als Anerkennung getarnt ist.« auch um Mystik, persönliche Entfaltung, Einsamkeit, Gemeinschaft, Gentrifizierung, demographischen Wandel, Kapitalismus usw.Wenn nun der Eindruck entstanden sein sollte, dass das Lesen von Der Kaninchenstall an der ein oder anderen Stelle etwas too much sein könnte, dann stimmt das und gleichzeitig auch nicht. Es fühlt sich an wie eine Metapher auf unsere Zeit, in der wir permanent mit Informationen überhäuft werden, die auf die verschiedensten Arten zu uns gelangen und uns oft zu überfordern drohen. Es ist aber genauso eine Freude, dieses Buch zu lesen, auch wenn es einen nicht immer glücklich zurücklässt. Denn Tess Gunty schafft es immer wieder, die Lesende so in das Innere ihrer Figuren blicken zu lassen, dass ein Mitfühlen und zumindest teilweise verstehen, quasi unvermeidlich sind. Und sie hat ein enormes Talent, welches sich darin ausdrückt, dass sie Wahrnehmungen und Eindrücke auffangen und sprachlich ausdrücken kann, dass es den Nagel auf den Kopf trifft: „Blandine hasst diese billige Karikatur von Empathie, die sich so oft als Mitleid manifestiert. Sie kennt sie nur von Leuten, die übermäßig geliebt und nie wirklich kritisiert werden.“Und letztlich, so sagt es die Autorin selbst, geht es in ihrem Werk um die Frage: Was sind wir uns gegenseitig schuldig? Eine nachdenkenswerte Frage, die sich am Ende jede und jeder selbst beantworten muss. Der Kaninchenstall steht dabei als Sinnbild der mangelnden Entfaltungsmöglichkeiten der Menschen die in ihm leben und die sich eher noch zerfleischen, wenn sie sich zu nahe kommen, denn sich wohlgesonnen zu sein. Aber ein positiver Wandel ist möglich, damit lässt uns dieses Buch zurück, so wie ich nun alle Hörer- und Leserinnen mit der Empfehlung zurücklasse, Tess Guntys Der Kaninchenstall zu lesen. Es lohnt sich, denn es ist nicht nur Lesen, sondern ein Miterleben und Durchleben gleichermaßen. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit lobundverriss.substack.com

New York Times bestselling memoirist turned novelist, Garrard Conley, spoke with me about going from activist to fictionist, the isolation of being an artist, and his debut novel All the World Beside. Garrard Conley is the New York Times bestselling author of the memoir Boy Erased, as well as the creator and co-producer of the podcast UnErased: The History of Conversion Therapy in America. His memoir became a major motion picture starring Nicole Kidman, Russell Crowe, and Lucas Hedges, directed by Joel Edgerton. His debut novel is titled All the World Beside and described as “... an electrifying, deeply moving novel about the love story between two men in Puritan New England.” Tess Gunty, National Book Award-winning author of Rabbit Hutch, called the book an “... accomplishment of breathtaking prose, expert pacing, and extraordinary psychological intelligence...” Garth Greenwell wrote, “... this novel contains some of the finest writing I've encountered in recent American fiction.” Garrard's work has been published by The New York Times, Oxford American, Time, and Virginia Quarterly Review, among others. Conley is a graduate of Brooklyn College's MFA program, where he was a Truman Capote Fellow specializing in fiction, and he is an assistant professor of creative writing at Kennesaw State University. [Discover The Writer Files Extra: Get 'The Writer Files' Podcast Delivered Straight to Your Inbox at writerfiles.fm] [If you're a fan of The Writer Files, please click FOLLOW to automatically see new interviews. And drop us a rating or a review wherever you listen] In this file Garrard Conley and I discussed: What it was like to work with Radiolab on a podcast Setting out to write “The Queer Scarlett Letter” His intense historical research process  How he inhabits his stories Why writers can't skimp on what the audience wants How to un-Tik-Tok-ify your brain And a lot more! Show Notes: garrardconley.com All the World Beside: A NOVEL By Garrard Conley (Amazon) Garrard Conley Amazon Author Page Garrard Conley on Instagram Garrard Conley on Twitter Kelton Reid on Twitter Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Comedian Mohanad Elshieky came to Bloomington for the Limestone Comedy Festival in early June. He talks with producer Avi Forrest about why, after something bad happens, it's important to wait before talking about it onstage, and how he tries to avoid being pigeon-holed as a comedian. Then, an Indiana author writes a novel set in Indiana, and it wins a National Book Award. WFIU's Violet Baron talks with Tess Gunty about why it was important to set her debut novel, The Rabbit Hutch, in her home state. Credits Inner States is produced and edited by me, Alex Chambers. Avi Forrest is our associate producer. Our social media master is Jillian Blackburn. We get support from Eoban Binder, Mark Chilla, LuAnn Johnson, Sam Schemenauer, Payton Whaley, and Kayte Young. Our Executive Producer is Eric Bolstridge. Our theme song is by Amy Oelsner and Justin Vollmar. We have additional music from the artists at Universal Production Music.

Another year gone by! The sands of time! Recap the full spin around our fav burning gas giant with our bests of the year in many silly and serious categories.MOVIE:AA: Past Lives MM: Maybe Theatre Camp but idkTV SHOW:AA: Jury Duty (Amazon Freevee)MM: The Last of Us (HBO)BOOK:AA: The Rabbit Hutch by Tess Gunty (runner up: Tom Lake by Ann Patchett)MM: The Land of Milk and Honey by C Pam Zhang (runner up: Big Swiss by Jen Beagin)ALBUM:AA: Girls Of My Dreams, Fletcher (runner up: same as MM + Stick Season (We'll All Be Here Forever), Noah Kahan and The Sun, JOSEPH)MM: the record, boygenius (runner up: Snow Angel, Renee Rapp, and GUTS, duh)SONG:AA: As of this moment “The Wedding Song”, Renee Rapp and “The Tree”, Maren Morris for the vibe but for real it's gotta be True Blue, boygenius for the real winner one of the most gorgeous songs on earth imo MM: “Not Strong Enough”, boygenius (honorable mention for a song that has been in my head for the last month: “Femininomenon” by Chappell Roan)CONCERT:AA: sorry but it's The Eras TourMM: it's a tie! Boygenius or the MUNA set from All Things GoMEAL:AA: Bar at SarmaMM: lunar new year dinner partyBREAKFAST:AA: Brown Butter Corn Cake at Radio Bakery in NYCMM: Bagels etc??????LUNCH:AA: fennel, bean, olive, pecorino, sunflower seed, apple sal on repeat at least 1000 times (picnic in alethia tanner was the best) or the sweet potato, cucumber, citrus, peanut, lettuce, with the Cindy's Kitchen sesame ginger dressing MM: Cart Driver in Denver (honorable mention: Sofra with FOTP Sophia, perfect turkey sandwich on a picnic blanket in the park on March 26th)DINNER:AA: Kowloon Fried Cauliflower at Little Donkey in Boston MM: Walrus Rodeo in MiamiDESSERT:AA: 3 citrus sorbet at weckerlys / hot fudge sundae hillstone MM: forever and always creme brulee from Le DipPURCHASE:AA:  Classic Easy Tote by CuyanaMM: not at all sexy but weekly compost pickup serviceDISCOVERY:AA: I'm more of a literary fiction girlie I guess! Phony negroni MM: Quaker meeting (honorable mention: Dot's Pretzels, Wegman's ginger seltzer, slippers)TRIP:AA: cape cod

City Lights LIVE and Litquake celebrate the final issue of John Freeman's distinguished journal “Freeman's: Conclusions,” published by Grove Atlantic, with John Freeman, joined by Jaime Cortez, Elaine Castillo, and Oscar Villaon. Over the course of ten years, “Freeman's" has introduced the English-speaking world to countless writers of international import and acclaim, from Olga Tokarczuk to Valeria Luiselli, while also spotlighting brilliant writers working in English, from Tommy Orange to Tess Gunty. Now, in its last issue, this unique literary project ponders all the ways of reaching a fitting conclusion. For Sayaka Murata, keeping up with the comings and goings of fashion and its changing emotional landscapes can mean being left behind, and in her poem “Amenorrhea,” Julia Alvarez experiences the end of the line as menopause takes hold. Yet sometimes an end is merely a beginning, as Barry Lopez meditates while walking through the snowy Oregonian landscapes. While Chinelo Okparanta's story “Fatu” confronts the end of a relationship under the specter of new life, other writers look towards aging as an opportunity for rebirth, such as Honorée Fanonne Jeffers, who takes on the role of being her own elder, comforting herself in the ways that her grandmother used to. Finally, in his comic story “Everyone at Dinner Has a Max von Sydow Story,” Dave Eggers suggests that sometimes stories don't have neat or clean endings—that sometimes the middle is enough. John Freeman is the founder of the literary annual “Freeman's” and the author and editor of ten books, including “Dictionary of the Undoing,” “The Park,” “Tales of Two Planets,” “The Penguin Book of the Modern American Short Story,” and, with Tracy K. Smith, “There's a Revolution Outside,” “My Love”. His work has appeared in The New Yorker, The Paris Review, and Orion, and been translated into over twenty languages. The former editor of Granta, he lives in New York City, where he teaches writing at NYU and is an executive editor at Alfred A. Knopf. Jaime Cortez is a writer and visual artist based in Watsonville, California. His fiction, essays, and drawings have appeared in diverse publications that include “Kindergarde: Experimental Writing For Children,” “No Straight Lines,” a 40-year compendium of LGBT comics, “Street Art San Francisco,” and “Infinite Cities,” an experimental atlas of San Francisco. He wrote and illustrated the graphic novel “Sexile” for AIDS Project Los Angeles in 2003. “Gordo” is Jaime's debut collection of short stories, and was published by Grove Atlantic to national acclaim in 2021. Jaime received his BA in Communications from the University of Pennsylvania, and his MFA from UC Berkeley. Elaine Castillo, named one of “30 of the planet's most exciting young people” by the Financial Times, was born and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area. Her debut novel “America Is Not the Heart” was named one of the best books of 2018 and has been nominated for the Elle Award, the Center for Fiction Prize, the Aspen Words Prize, the Northern California Independent Booksellers Book Award, and the California Book Award. Her essay collection “How To Read Now” was published to wide acclaim in July 2022, and was chosen as the September pick for Roxane Gay's Audacious Book Club, among others. Her latest longform essay on grief, dog rescue and the politics of dog training is forthcoming this fall from Scribd. She is currently working on her second novel, to be published in late 2024/early 2025. Oscar Villalon is the editor of “ZYZZYVA." His work has been published in The Believer, Freeman's, VQR, Stranger's Guide, Alta, and many other publications. He lives with his wife and son in San Francisco. You can purchase copies of “Freeman's: Conclusions” at https://citylights.com/freemans-conclusions/ This event is made possible with the support of the City Lights Foundation. To learn more visit: https://citylights.com/foundation/

"The Rabbit Hutch" by Tess Gunty is a debut novel by a young writer from Indiana that has taken the literary world by storm, winning the prestigious National Book Award last year and garnering ecstatic praise far and wide. But what did America's favorite book nerd twins think of this buzzy, socially conscious novel? That question gets answered in episode 62 of the Book XChange podcast, as we dive deep into this polyphonic novel about a decaying town in Middle America and various residents of a dilapidated apartment building located therein. Glad to have you along for the ride. Please like, review, share and support the podcast if you're so inclined... and thank you!

„Manchmal geht es zu wie im Irrenhaus, oder? Ich meine, so viele Leben, die gerettet werden müssen.“ Dünne Wände, hellhörig, beengt, geruchsintensiv. Meine Erinnerungen an einen Kaninchenstall sind noch recht lebendig. Mein Vater hielt die flauschigen Vierbeiner, wir lebten auf dem Land. Wenn ich als Kind nicht folgte, hieß es: „Du kommst gleich in den Kaninchenstall!“. Es ist niemals passiert, ich blieb immer vor der Tür stehen und gab den Tieren Heu, Möhrchen und eine Streicheleinheit. Kaninchen finden sich an vielen Stellen in den mehrfach preisgekrönten Debüt der US-amerikanischen Schriftstellerin Tess Gunty – nicht nur im Titel des ungewöhnlichen Romans.... Constanze Matthes, ich bin Journalistin und leidenschaftliche Leserin. Die Liebe zu den Büchern begann im zarten Alter von vier, fünf Jahren, als meine Mutter mich zum ersten Mal in die kleine Bücherei unseres Dorfes mitnahm. Wenige Jahre später schleppte ich die Bücher dann stapelweise allein nach Hause. In der Schule las ich stets die Pflichtlektüre und war meinen Mitschülern ein gern gesehener Gesprächspartner, um den Inhalt des zu lesenden Buches in der Pause vor der Deutschstunde zu erzählen. Sollte man an dieser Stelle „verraten“ sagen? Nach dem Abitur und einem Auslandsaufenthalt in Norwegen studierte ich im Hauptfach Germanistik mit Schwerpunkt Literaturwissenschaft. Allerdings las ich dann nicht immer die Pflichtlektüre der mehrseitigen Lektüreliste und besuchte viel eher die wunderbare Bibliothek des Deutschen Literaturinstituts. Vor allem dann, wenn meine Mitbewohnerin den Koffer-Fernseher über das Wochenende wieder nach Hause mitnahm. Noch heute bin ich „fernseherlos“ und investiere vielmehr meine Zeit in große und kleine Geschichten, dicke und dünne Bücher. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/hoerbahn/message

Tess Gunty wurde für "Der Kaninchenstall" mit dem National Book Award ausgezeichnet. Sie ist die jüngste Preisträgerin seit Philip Roth, der den Preis 1960 erhielt. Buchhändler Sebastian Schmitz stellt den Roman vor. Von Sebastian Schmitz.

Jamie Keenan is a book cover designer who has been freelancing since setting up his own studio in 1998. He has since designed covers for Stephen King, Joyce Carol Oates, Philip Pullman, A M Homes, Franz Kafka, Tess Gunty and thousands of others. Jamie also co-founded the Academy Of British Cover Design (ABCD) awards along with Jon Gray. The awards have been running since 2014 and has helped bring the cover design community together to celebrate the fantastic work that's being done by designers in the UK. You can see a selection of Jamie's work on his website keenandesign.com and follow him on Twitter @MrKeenan or over on Instagram @misterkeenan. To see the incredible winners and shortlists from the past ten years of the ABCD awards be sure to visit their website abcoverd.co.uk. To read the conversation between Jamie and US based designer Pablo Delcan, visit Lithub here. Cover Meeting is hosted by Steve Leard and produced by James Ede of beheard.org.uk.

National Book Award-winning author Tess Gunty joins Daniel Ford on the show to discuss her debut novel The Rabbit Hutch, which is now out in paperback.  To learn more about Tess Gunty, visit her official website.  Writer's Bone is proudly sponsored by Libro.fm, As Told To: The Ghostwriting Podcast, and A Mighty Blaze podcast.

In the New York Times bestselling novel, The Rabbit Hutch, Tess Gunty introduces us to Vacca Vale, Indiana, a dying city clinging to its past automobile manufacturing glory days. After decades of economic disintegration brought on by the closing of Zorn Automotive Manufacturing, we meet the residents of an affordable housing building, particularly the brilliant but lost 17-year-old, Blandine, who has “graduated” from foster care and is now living with three boys, also products of the broken system. We meet Blandine's lecherous high school teacher, a developer who plans to build on the only remaining green space in the city, and an aged former child star who has died. Blandine, guided by the writings of medieval saints, tries to find a future for herself, her city, and the only remaining green space which is about to go under the developer's shovel. “Inventive, heartbreaking and acutely funny” Observer. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/frontporchbookclub/support

In the New York Times bestselling novel, The Rabbit Hutch, Tess Gunty introduces us to Vacca Vale, Indiana, a dying city clinging to its past automobile manufacturing glory days. After decades of economic disintegration brought on by the closing of Zorn Automotive Manufacturing, we meet the residents of an affordable housing building, particularly the brilliant but lost 17-year-old, Blandine, who has “graduated” from foster care and is now living with three boys, also products of the broken system. We meet Blandine's lecherous high school teacher, a developer who plans to build on the only remaining green space in the city, and an aged former child star who has died. Blandine, guided by the writings of medieval saints, tries to find a future for herself, her city, and the only remaining green space which is about to go under the developer's shovel. “Inventive, heartbreaking and acutely funny” Observer. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/frontporchbookclub/support

With National Book Award winner Tess Gunty, discussing her sensational debut The Rabbit Hutch. We chatted re writing transcendent sex scenes that have meaning; a rebelliously positive, mystic take on Catholicism; and how to write as your book as if you were talking to your best and smartest friend (advice she took from novelist Jeffrey Eugenides). All episodes of The Thoughtful Bro aired live originally on A Mighty Blaze. The Thoughtful Bro is proudly sponsored by Libro.fm.

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An Indiana author writes a novel set in Indiana, and it wins a National Book Award. WFIU's Violet Baron talks with Tess Gunty about why it was important to set her novel in her home state. Then, Austin Davis brings us poems about people living without housing, from WFIU's Poets Weave. And in Chapter 3 of The Third Time Rita Left, Kayte and Carl get invited to exhume a dead cat, and in the midst of everyone leaving work to look for Rita, we ask what work is really for, anyway.

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Da, wo Donald Trump seine Wähler rekrutiert, spielt Tess Guntys in den USA mit dem National Book Award ausgezeichneter Debütroman „Der Kaninchenstall“: Im abgehängten Rust Belt Amerikas, genauer in dem kleinen Ort Vacca Vale, sind ihre verlorenen, verstörten, einsamen Figuren zu Hause – und dort geschehen Zeichen und Wunder, ereignen sich Abstürze und Aufstiege. Rezension von Ulrich Rüdenauer. Aus dem amerikanischen Englisch von Sophie Zeitz Kiepenheuer & Witsch Verlag, 416 Seiten, 25 Euro ISBN 978-3-462-00300-0

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In dieser Folge mit Meike, Anika und Robin: „Oh Boy: Männlichkeit*en heute“ von Donat Blum & Valentin Moritz, „Für Dancing Boy“ von Sara Johnsen und „Der Kaninchenstall“ von Tess Gunty. Ei der Daus, die 3.554.756 (oder mehr) verschiedenen biografischen Details der Autorin und literarischen Kunstfigur Sibylle Berg sind nicht alle faktisch belegbar? Die Neue Zürcher Zeitung hat sich hierzu in eine akribische Investigativrecherche gestürzt – und, oh Wunder, wenig Überraschendes zutage gebracht. Amüsant ist's allemal, also wünschen wir viel Spaß beim heutigen Vorgeplänkel!

In dieser Folge mit Meike, Anika und Robin: „Oh Boy: Männlichkeit*en heute“ von Donat Blum & Valentin Moritz, „Für Dancing Boy“ von Sara Johnsen und „Der Kaninchenstall“ von Tess Gunty. Ei der Daus, die 3.554.756 (oder mehr) verschiedenen biografischen Details der Autorin und literarischen Kunstfigur Sibylle Berg sind nicht alle faktisch belegbar? Die Neue Zürcher Zeitung hat sich hierzu in eine akribische Investigativrecherche gestürzt – und, oh Wunder, wenig Überraschendes zutage gebracht. Amüsant ist's allemal, also wünschen wir viel Spaß beim heutigen Vorgeplänkel!

Die junge Autorin Tess Gunty wird bereits als der neue Star, das große Talent der US-amerikanischen Literatur gefeiert: Für ihren Roman wurde sie im letzten Jahr mit dem National Book Award ausgezeichnet. "Der Kaninchenstall" erzählt mit Wucht aus dem amerikanischen Rust Belt: Einst Motor der Industrie, prägen die Region heute Arbeitslosigkeit und sinkende Einwohnerzahlen. Sarah Murrenhoff stellt den Roman vor.

Der rasant geschriebene Debütroman der 30-jährigen Tess Gunty ist düster und doch voller unverwüstlicher Hoffnung.

Tess Gunty is the author of the debut novel The Rabbit Hutch, now available in trade paperback from Vintage. It received the National Book Award for Fiction in 2022. Gunty earned an MFA in creative writing from NYU, where she was a Lillian Vernon Fellow. Her work has appeared in The Iowa Review, Joyland, Los Angeles Review of Books, No Tokens, Flash, and elsewhere. She was raised in South Bend, Indiana, and lives in Los Angeles. *** Otherppl with Brad Listi is a weekly literary podcast featuring in-depth interviews with today's leading writers. 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

Yesterday marked the first official day of summer, which means it's time for summer reading! All Of It and Get Lit producer Jordan Lauf joins us to recommend some of the best new and upcoming summer reads, plus we take listener calls and suggestions!  Jordan's Recommendations: Crook Manifesto by Colson Whitehead  Tom Lake by Ann Patchet Heaven and Earth Grocery Store by James McBride Family Lore by Elizabeth Acevedo Happy Place by Emily Henry Couplets by Maggie Millner Everything's Fine by Cecilia Rabess Drowning: The Rescue of Flight 1421 by TJ Newman Happiness Falls by Angie Kim Miracle Creek by Angie Kim All The Sinners Bleed by SA Cosby How to Stay Married: The Most Insane Love Story Ever Told by Harrison Scott Key Pageboy by Elliot Page The Talk by Darrin Bell Listener Recommendations:  Sag Harbor by Colson Whitehead Soul Boom by Rain Wilson Disease X by Kate Kelland The Ditch Digger's Daughter by Jo Coudert Rabbit Hutch by Tess Gunty The Eyes and the Impossible by Dave Eggers The Power Broker by Robert Caro The Maytrees by Annie Dillard Why Fathers Cry at Night by Kwame Alexander The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid The Color of Magic by Terry Pratchett Operation Storm King by Elliott Summers Bunny By Mona Awad    

During a sweltering week in July, we learn about the people who live in the "Rabbit Hutch", a low-cost housing complex in a decaying Indiana town. The novel “The Rabbit Hutch" by Tess Gunty is a beautiful and funny snapshot of contemporary America.

To kick off Season 2, we have the wonderful Tess Gunty: An award-winning author whose first published novel, The Rabbit Hutch, received the 2022 National Book Award for Fiction. She holds a BA in English with Honors in Creative Writing from the University of Notre Dame, and an MFA in Creative Writing from NYU. Tess joins Emily to discuss intentionality behind focus and attention, the journey behind writing her first published novel, and the experience of living an external life as an introvert.

Things are getting weirder by the page.. but also more endearing?? We can at least agree that Tess is TALENTED and we adore our sweet Blandine. This episode is about pages 81-177 of The Rabbit Hutch by Tess Gunty. Next week, we are reading pages 175-255. See you thennnnnn! Follow us on Instagram: @booktok_podcast Follow us on TikTok: @booktokpodcast Shop our Bookshop.org storefront: https://bookshop.org/shop/booktok --- Other books mentioned in this episode: The Bookshop of Second Chances by Jackie Fraser The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid Spare by Prince Harry the Duke of Sussex Manhunt by Gretchen Felker-Martin Cloud Cuckoo Land by Anthony Doerr Age of Vice by Deepti Kapoor

These baby weirdos... I think I love them! One of us is less convinced than the other, I bet you can guess. This episode is about the first 80 pages of The Rabbit Hutch by Tess Gunty. Next week, we are reading pages 81-174. See you thennnnnn! Follow us on Instagram: @booktok_podcast Follow us on TikTok: @booktokpodcast Shop our Bookshop.org storefront: https://bookshop.org/shop/booktok --- Other books mentioned in this episode: The Bookshop of Second Chances by Jackie Fraser Carrie Soto is Back by Taylor Jenkins Reid Malibu Rising by Taylor Jenkins Reid Lucy by the Sea by Elizabeth Strout Manhunt by Gretchen Felker-Martin

We're PIVOTING to a new book club read for January - starting on January 8th, we are going to be reading The Rabbit Hutch by Tess Gunty. Grab your copy from a local bookstore or Bookshop.org. Can't wait to dive in!

Do you have reading resolutions for the new year? Whether you want to focus your efforts on reading outside your comfort zone or simply want to read more, check out these suggestions from librarians Katie, Meagan and Sarah. They also talk about book discovery resources and what they're looking forward to reading next. Titles mentioned in this episode include: Empire of Pain and Say Nothing by Patrick Radden Keefe; Rust Belt Femme by Raechel Anne Jolie; Olga Dies Dreaming by by Xochitl Gonzalez; The World Record Book of Racist Stories and You'll Never Believe What Happened to Lacey by Amber Ruffin; The Sunbearer Trials by Aiden Thomas; My First Popsicle, edited by Zosia Mamet; The Song of the Cell and The Emperor of All Maladies by Siddhartha Mukherjee; The Rabbit Hutch by Tess Gunty; Grace: President Obama and Ten Days in the Battle for America by Cody Keenan; A World of Curiosities by Louise Penny; and Now Is Not the Time to Panic, The Family Fang and Nothing to See Here by Kevin Wilson. Also mentioned: Archive of Our Own Check out books and movies at countycat.mcfls.org, wplc.overdrive.com and hoopladigital.com. For more about WAPL, visit westallislibrary.org. Music: Tim Moor via Pixabay

Anna and Amanda discuss the National Book Award winner for fiction, The Rabbit Hutch by Tess Gunty. Our book of the week is The Marriage Portrait by Maggie O'Farrell, the follow-up novel to her hugely successful Hamnet. It's set in the Italian Renaissance and follows Lucrezia de'Medici and her marriage aged 15 to the Duke of Ferrara.  All the ingredients for a great read, we had high expectations for this one! Coming up: Crossroads by Jonanthan Franzen and our Holiday Reading recommendations and TBR! Follow us: Instagram: @abailliekaras and @vibrant_lives_podcast Email: booksonthegopodcast@gmail.com Facebook: Books On The Go Twitter: @abailliekaras  Litsy: @abailliekaras Credits Artwork: Sascha Wilkosz

Ray Shipley from Scorpio Books in Christchurch reviews The Rabbit Hutch by Tess Gunty, published by Penguin Random House

This week is the ceremony for the National Book Award, and one of the finalists is Tess Gunty, whose debut novel, The Rabbit Hutch, is a finalist in the fiction category. The novel tells the story of various residents in a low-income housing development in Vacca Vale, Indiana. Gunty joins us to discuss. This segment is guest hosted by Kerry Nolan.

Tess Gunty is an award-winning novelist based in Los Angeles, whose fascinating (and acclaimed) debut novel, The Rabbit Hutch, was recently published by Knopf (North America) and Oneworld (UK & Commonwealth) and is a finalist for the National Book Award. For this week's episode she chatted with David about her creative approach, the books that inspire her most, and much, much more. Here's to long TBR lists! This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit closereads.substack.com/subscribe

Born and raised in South Bend, Indiana, Tess holds a B.A. in English with an Honor's Concentration in Creative Writing from the University of Notre Dame. After graduating in 2015, she began an MFA in Creative Writing from NYU, where she was a Lillian Vernon Fellow. After earning her MFA, Tess worked alongside her former professor Jonathan Safran Foer, providing research and writing for his book of nonfiction about the climate crisis. We Are the Weather was published by FSG in 2019. As a freelance writer, editor, and research assistant, Tess's experience also includes documenting the history of the Notre Dame Center for Social Concerns; contributing a history of Westside, Atlanta to an urban revitalization plan by Thadani Architects + Urbanists; creating science content for the American Museum of Natural History; editing Bruce Rits Gilbert's debut book, John Prine, One Song at a Time, a tribute to the folk musician written in the wake of Prine's death from the novel coronavirus; and working as a fact-checker on Mysteries of Mental Illness, a PBS docuseries about the history of psychiatry in America. In 2021, the publishing houses Knopf (North America), Éditions Gallmeister (France), Guanda (Italy), and Kiepenheuer & Witsch (Germany) preempted Tess's debut novel The Rabbit Hutch, along with her sophomore novel Honeydew. Recommended Books: Hernan Diaz, Trust Sean Carroll, Something Deeply Hidden  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

Born and raised in South Bend, Indiana, Tess holds a B.A. in English with an Honor's Concentration in Creative Writing from the University of Notre Dame. After graduating in 2015, she began an MFA in Creative Writing from NYU, where she was a Lillian Vernon Fellow. After earning her MFA, Tess worked alongside her former professor Jonathan Safran Foer, providing research and writing for his book of nonfiction about the climate crisis. We Are the Weather was published by FSG in 2019. As a freelance writer, editor, and research assistant, Tess's experience also includes documenting the history of the Notre Dame Center for Social Concerns; contributing a history of Westside, Atlanta to an urban revitalization plan by Thadani Architects + Urbanists; creating science content for the American Museum of Natural History; editing Bruce Rits Gilbert's debut book, John Prine, One Song at a Time, a tribute to the folk musician written in the wake of Prine's death from the novel coronavirus; and working as a fact-checker on Mysteries of Mental Illness, a PBS docuseries about the history of psychiatry in America. In 2021, the publishing houses Knopf (North America), Éditions Gallmeister (France), Guanda (Italy), and Kiepenheuer & Witsch (Germany) preempted Tess's debut novel The Rabbit Hutch, along with her sophomore novel Honeydew. Recommended Books: Hernan Diaz, Trust Sean Carroll, Something Deeply Hidden  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

Born and raised in South Bend, Indiana, Tess holds a B.A. in English with an Honor's Concentration in Creative Writing from the University of Notre Dame. After graduating in 2015, she began an MFA in Creative Writing from NYU, where she was a Lillian Vernon Fellow. After earning her MFA, Tess worked alongside her former professor Jonathan Safran Foer, providing research and writing for his book of nonfiction about the climate crisis. We Are the Weather was published by FSG in 2019. As a freelance writer, editor, and research assistant, Tess's experience also includes documenting the history of the Notre Dame Center for Social Concerns; contributing a history of Westside, Atlanta to an urban revitalization plan by Thadani Architects + Urbanists; creating science content for the American Museum of Natural History; editing Bruce Rits Gilbert's debut book, John Prine, One Song at a Time, a tribute to the folk musician written in the wake of Prine's death from the novel coronavirus; and working as a fact-checker on Mysteries of Mental Illness, a PBS docuseries about the history of psychiatry in America. In 2021, the publishing houses Knopf (North America), Éditions Gallmeister (France), Guanda (Italy), and Kiepenheuer & Witsch (Germany) preempted Tess's debut novel The Rabbit Hutch, along with her sophomore novel Honeydew. Recommended Books: Hernan Diaz, Trust Sean Carroll, Something Deeply Hidden  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/literary-studies

Born and raised in South Bend, Indiana, Tess holds a B.A. in English with an Honor's Concentration in Creative Writing from the University of Notre Dame. After graduating in 2015, she began an MFA in Creative Writing from NYU, where she was a Lillian Vernon Fellow. After earning her MFA, Tess worked alongside her former professor Jonathan Safran Foer, providing research and writing for his book of nonfiction about the climate crisis. We Are the Weather was published by FSG in 2019. As a freelance writer, editor, and research assistant, Tess's experience also includes documenting the history of the Notre Dame Center for Social Concerns; contributing a history of Westside, Atlanta to an urban revitalization plan by Thadani Architects + Urbanists; creating science content for the American Museum of Natural History; editing Bruce Rits Gilbert's debut book, John Prine, One Song at a Time, a tribute to the folk musician written in the wake of Prine's death from the novel coronavirus; and working as a fact-checker on Mysteries of Mental Illness, a PBS docuseries about the history of psychiatry in America. In 2021, the publishing houses Knopf (North America), Éditions Gallmeister (France), Guanda (Italy), and Kiepenheuer & Witsch (Germany) preempted Tess's debut novel The Rabbit Hutch, along with her sophomore novel Honeydew. Recommended Books: Hernan Diaz, Trust Sean Carroll, Something Deeply Hidden  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

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This week's guest is Tess Gunty, winner of the 2022 Waterstones Debut Fiction Prize for her novel The Rabbit Hutch.*The Rabbit Hutch is a low-cost housing complex in the post-industrial town of Vacca Vale, Indiana. It's home to a mix of generations and familial constellations—couples, singletons, roommates—whose lives ebb and flow according to the economic and social forces that surround them, as well as the deeper-flowing currents of their pasts.It's also home to Blandine who, we learn at the beginning of Tess Gunty's novel—isn't like the other residents of her building. How and, crucially, why this is the case are the questions at the heart of the book.But beyond the Rabbit Hutch, beyond Vacca Vale Indiana, beyond the United States even, The Rabbit Hutch is also a book about how our lives intersect, how our actions impact upon the lives of people we didn't even know existed, and how a little bit of human cruelty, can go a long way but how human tenderness can go even further.Rick Moody called Tess Gunty a writer of “uncommon originality, both in terms of voice and vision” while Jonathan Safran Foer described the Rabbit Hutch as “a profoundly wise, wildly inventive, deeply moving work of art.”*SUBSCRIBE NOW FOR BONUS EPISODESLooking for Friends of Shakespeare and Company read Ulysses? https://podfollow.com/sandcoulyssesIf you want to spend even more time at Shakespeare and Company, you can now subscribe for regular bonus episodes and early access to Friends of Shakespeare and Company read Ulysses.Subscribe on Patreon here: https://www.patreon.com/sandcoSubscribe on Apple Podcasts here: https://podcasts.apple.com/fr/podcast/shakespeare-and-company-writers-books-and-paris/id1040121937?l=enAll money raised goes to supporting “Friends of Shakespeare and Company” the bookshop's non-profit, created to fund our noncommercial activities—from the upstairs reading library, to the writers-in-residence program, to our charitable collaborations, and our free events.*Tess Gunty was born and raised in South Bend, Indiana. She received a B.A. in English with an Honors Concentration in Creative Writing from the University of Notre Dame, where she won the Ernest Sandeen Award for her poetry collection. She holds an MFA in Creative Writing from NYU, where she was a Lillian Vernon Fellow, and her work was nominated for the PEN/Robert J. Dau Short Story Prize for Emerging Writers. Her fiction has appeared or is forthcoming in Joyland, The Iowa Review, Freeman's, and other publications, and she lives in Los Angeles.Adam Biles is Literary Director at Shakespeare and Company. Buy a signed copy of his novel FEEDING TIME here: https://shakespeareandcompany.com/S/9781910296684/feeding-timeListen to Alex Freiman's Play It Gentle here: https://open.spotify.com/album/4gfkDcG32HYlXnBqI0xgQX?si=mf0Vw-kuRS-ai15aL9kLNA&dl_branch=1 Get bonus content on Patreon Our GDPR privacy policy was updated on August 8, 2022. Visit acast.com/privacy for more information.

Michael is back on the Agatha Christie train with Death Comes as the End and Bert is exploring the Rabbit Hutch by Tess Gunty. Plus both Michael and Bert are looking at life after the apocalypse with The Last One at the Party by Bethany Clift and All That's Left in the World by Erik J Brown --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/bertsbooks/message

In this double header, Renee discusses “dying” post-industrial rust belt cities with Tess Gunty, author of The Rabbit Hutch. Tess and Renee share a hometown, so they chat about the misconceptions of these towns and how Tess depicted a similar setting in her debut novel. Then Ashley chats with Jamie Brenner, who just released Gilt (read Ashley's first interview with Jamie here!). Jamie and Ashley share a love of jewelry, the topic of this dazzling novel, but they also discuss being unapologetic, writing empowered young women, and some favorite characters of the book.    Books mentioned: The Rabbit Hutch by Tess Gunty Luster by Raven Leilani (podcast interview with Raven Leilani) The Collected Works of Clarice Lispector Gilt by Jamie Brenner Blush by Jamie Brenner Stoned: Jewelry, Obsession, and How Desire Shapes the World by Aja Raden Diving for Starfish: The Jeweler, the Actress, the Heiress, and One of the World's Most Alluring Pieces of Jewelry by Cherie Burns Support our guests and hosts:   Follow Tess: Instagram // www.tessgunty.comFollow Jamie: Instagram // WebsiteFollow Renee: Instagram // Twitter Follow Ashley: Twitter // Website   Beyond the Box: Our weekly round-up of blog and podcast content delivered directly to your inbox every Friday   Check out our online community here!    This episode was edited and produced by Renee Powers on the ancestral land of the Dakota people.   Original music by @iam.onyxrose   Learn more about Feminist Book Club on our website, sign up for our emails, shop our Bookshop.org recommendations, and follow us on Instagram, Twitter, TikTok, Facebook, Pinterest.

“To write a young woman who refuses to define herself by anything other than her activism, her mind, her curiosity, that was just a delight, and she wasn't the most predictable character, but she was the one who told me what to do on every page.” How to describe Tess Gunty's dynamic debut, The Rabbit Hutch? Think Jennifer Egan + Denis Johnson. Think polyphonic novel about climate change and gentrification and coming-of-age in a dying American Dream with an unforgettable 18-year-old as its heart. Tess joins us on the show to talk about loneliness and connection, South Bend and Studebaker automobiles, needing to leave home in order to write about it, how an anxious kid became a writer, mysticism, revision, the poets and writers who inspire her and much more with Poured Over's host, Miwa Messer. And we end this episode with TBR Topoff book recommendations from Marc and Becky.   Featured Books (episode) The Rabbit Hutch by Tess Gunty A Swim in a Pond in the Rain by George Saunders A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan NW by Zadie Smith Great House by Nicole Krauss Middlemarch by George Eliot   Featured Books (TBR Topoff) Salvage the Bones by Jesmyn Ward The Mars Room by Rachel Kushner   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.   A full transcript of this episode is available here.

Tess Gunty on The Rabbit Hutch; Jackie Kay on the writing of Jamaica Kincaid

Featuring Bonnie Garmus, Tess Gunty, Louise Kennedy, Sequoia Nagamatsu, Eloghosa Osunde and Tara M. Stringfellow. A unique opportunity to hear all six authors shortlisted for the inaugural Waterstones Debut Fiction Prize. With a prize celebrating debut novels across genres it's no surprise to find such variety amongst our six nominees. Social commentary, science fiction, family sagas, spirituality, great characters and unforgettable lessons in life from the most exciting new voices in fiction. Join us as we discover their road to publication and hear their answers to questions from those who've championed their books: Waterstones booksellers.

The latest installment of the Hatchards Podcast is a global affair, recorded variously in Los Angeles, Paris, and North London and featuring our guest Tess Gunty, author of the phenomenal debut novel, The Rabbit Hutch.Set over three sweltering July days in the fictional town of Vacca Vale in the American rust belt, the novel revolves around the residents of ‘The Rabbit Hutch', a dilapidated housing complex that is home to a motley mix of the Midwest's forgotten and forlorn: damaged teens struggling to deal with the legacy of foster home abuse; an elderly couple besieged by falling rodents; a lonely online obituary editor; and Blandine Watkins, the heroine of the story and its unforgettable central character, upon whom a shocking act of violence is both the beginning and the culmination of this novel.We spoke to Tess about the inspiration for the spellbinding Blandine; the influence of the German mystic, Hildegard of Bingen; the plight of real-life midwestern towns abandoned by the political class; and her own background in the Vacca Vale-esque South Bend, Indiana. Ryan also squeezed in the obligatory film reference in the form of a question about Harmony Korine.