{"version":1,"type":"rich","provider_name":"Libsyn","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.libsyn.com","height":90,"width":600,"title":"Episode 142 \u2014 Richard Chiem","description":"Richard Chiem is the guest. He is the author of You Private Person, a collection of short stories published by Scrambler Books.\nBlake Butler says\n\n"Richard Chiem's You Private Person is a bustling prism of a thing, full of passages that actually lead somewhere off of the paper. His words have brains that have bodies that wake you up in the way waking can be the best thing, like into a warm room full of good calm remembered things that feel both like relics and new inside the day. Here rings a wise and bravely sculpted book packed full of stunning thankful color."\n\nAnd Kate Zambreno says\n\n"Richard Chiem writes of all the weirdness and ooziness and tenderness of young love, with such lucid specificity. Like some beautiful film from the 70s, but also distinctly now. Because I also love how in this book he documents the tremors of contemporary existence, of living and working in a city, measuring days not in coffee spoons but in cigarettes and Simpsons episodes."\n\nMonologue topics: email, memes, Tony Danza.\n\n\n\n","author_name":"Otherppl with Brad Listi","author_url":"http:\/\/otherppl.com","html":"