Episode 670 — Matthew Salesses

1 rich Libsyn https://www.libsyn.com 90 600 Episode 670 — Matthew Salesses 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&nbsp;The Hundred-Year Flood, an&nbsp;Amazon Best Book of September and Kindle First pick, an&nbsp;Adoptive Families&nbsp;Best Book of 2015, and&nbsp;a Best Book of the season at&nbsp;Buzzfeed,&nbsp;Refinery29, and&nbsp;Gawker, among others. Forthcoming in 2021 are a craft book,&nbsp;Craft in the Real World, and a collection of essays,&nbsp;Own Story. His previous&nbsp;books include&nbsp;I’m Not Saying, I’m Just Saying;&nbsp;Different Racisms: On Stereotypes, the Individual, and Asian American Masculinity; and&nbsp;The Last Repatriate. Salesses&nbsp;was adopted from Korea. In 2015&nbsp;Buzzfeed&nbsp;named him one of 32 Essential Asian American Writers. His essays have been published in&nbsp;Best American Essays 2020, NPR&nbsp;Code Switch,&nbsp;The New York Times&nbsp;Motherlode, VICE.com, Gay Magazine, and many other venues. His short fiction has appeared in&nbsp;Glimmer Train, American Short Fiction, PEN/Guernica, and&nbsp;Witness,&nbsp;among others. He has received awards and fellowships from the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference,&nbsp;Glimmer Train, Mid-American Review, [PANK], HTMLGIANT, IMPAC, Inprint, and elsewhere.&nbsp; 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&nbsp;editorial boards&nbsp;of&nbsp;Green Mountains Review&nbsp;and Machete (an imprint of The Ohio State University Press), and has held editorial positions at&nbsp;Pleiades, The Good Men Project,&nbsp;Gulf Coast,&nbsp;and&nbsp;Redivider.&nbsp;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. Today's monologue: bradpocalypse Otherppl with Brad Listi http://otherppl.com <iframe title="Libsyn Player" style="border: none" src="//html5-player.libsyn.com/embed/episode/id/15939074/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> https://assets.libsyn.com/secure/content/83056286