{"version":1,"type":"rich","provider_name":"Libsyn","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.libsyn.com","height":90,"width":600,"title":"787. Melissa Chadburn","description":"Melissa Chadburn is the author of the debut novel A Tiny Upward Shove, available from Farrar, Straus, &amp; Giroux. Chadburn's writing has appeared in&amp;nbsp;The Los Angeles Times,&amp;nbsp;The New York Times Book Review,&amp;nbsp;The New York Review of Books,&amp;nbsp;The Paris Review Daily,&amp;nbsp;The Best American Food Writing, and many other publications. Her extensive reporting on the child welfare system appears in the Netflix docuseries&amp;nbsp;The Trials of Gabriel Fernandez. Melissa is a worker lover and through her own labor and literary citizenship strives to upend economic violence. Her mother taught her how to sharpen a pencil with a knife and she's basically been doing that ever since. She is a Ph.D. candidate in Creative Writing at the University of Southern California and lives in greater Los Angeles. *** 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\u2019s email newsletter. Support the show on Patreon Merch @otherppl Instagram&amp;nbsp; YouTube Email the show: letters [at] otherppl [dot] com The podcast is a proud affiliate partner of Bookshop, working to support local, independent bookstores. ","author_name":"Otherppl with Brad Listi","author_url":"http:\/\/otherppl.com","html":"<iframe title=\"Libsyn Player\" style=\"border: none\" src=\"\/\/html5-player.libsyn.com\/embed\/episode\/id\/24125154\/height\/90\/theme\/custom\/thumbnail\/yes\/direction\/forward\/render-playlist\/no\/custom-color\/88AA3C\/\" height=\"90\" width=\"600\" scrolling=\"no\"  allowfullscreen webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen oallowfullscreen msallowfullscreen><\/iframe>","thumbnail_url":"https:\/\/assets.libsyn.com\/secure\/content\/134467839"}