645. Chelsea Bieker

Otherppl with Brad Listi

Brad Listi

Arts, Society & Culture, Books

4.8 • 554 Ratings

🗓️ 20 May 2020

⏱️ 88 minutes

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Summary

Chelsea Bieker is the guest. Her debut novel, Godshot, is available from Catapult Press. Bieker's forthcoming story collection, Cowboys and Angels, is due out in 2022. Her writing has been published by The Paris Review, Granta, McSweeney’s, Lit Hub, and Electric Literature. She is the recipient of a Rona Jaffe Writers’ Award and a MacDowell Colony fellowship. Originally from California’s Central Valley, she now lives in Portland, Oregon with her husband and two children, where she teaches writing. *** 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. Life. Death. Etc. Support the show on Patreon Merch www.otherppl.com @otherppl Instagram 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

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0:00.0	Hey folks, today's episode is brought to you by Rare Bird Books, publisher of the Good Family Fitzgerald, the new novel by Joseph DePrisco.
0:07.9	The Good Family Fitzgerald is a saga of money and ambition, crime, and the Catholic Church.
0:13.1	It's a sprawling, passionate story shaped against a background of social discord. In riveting fashion,
0:19.3	the Good Family Fitzgerald depicts the lives of Irish and Italian
0:22.7	Americans for whom the church is both an organizing principle and a corrupting force. The Good
0:28.7	Family Fitzgerald by Joseph DePrisco, available now from Rare Bird Books.
0:36.9	I love to say it. I'll come right out and say it. I don't care what anything is. from Rare Bird Books.
0:53.3	Hello. How's everybody doing out there? My name's Brad Listy. I'm in Los Angeles. It's good to be with you.
1:01.1	I have Chelsea Beaker on the program today. She has a debut novel out on Catapult Press.
1:12.5	It is called Godshot. I have it right here in my hand. It's got a beautiful cover. There's some glitter happening on the cover. Chelsea Beaker.
1:14.6	Godshot.
1:16.2	I'm going to talk to her in a second.
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