Hello there. How are you? Welcome to the Other People podcast. I'm Brad Listy and I'm here in Los Angeles. How you doing? I hope you're well. I have on the program today Matt Bell. His critically acclaimed new novel Apple Seed is available from Custom House Books.

It is the official July pick of the TNB Book Club.

The TNB Book Club is an offshoot of the Nervous Breakdown.com.

My Online Culture Magazine and Literary Community, it's been around for 15 plus years.

Is that real?

The book club has been around for more than a

decade. If you want to find out more about that and sign up, just go to the Nervous Breakdown.com

and click on Book Club in the menu bar. So Matt Bell and I will be in conversation momentarily.

The new novel again is called Appleseed.

Matt Bell is also the author of the novel's Scrapper and in the house upon the dirt between the lake and the woods,

the latter of which made him a finalist for the Young Lions Fiction Award.

Matt Bell has also authored a short story collection entitled

A Tree or a Person or a Wall,

and he has written a nonfiction book about the classic video game Balders Gate 2.

His writing has appeared in a variety of publications,

including The New York Times, Tin House, Conjunctions,

and American Short Fiction, among others.

He teaches creative writing at Arizona State University.

Today's episode is brought to you by William Morrow Books, publisher of Count the Ways, the new novel from New York Times bestselling author Joyce Maynard.

Count the Ways tells a mesmerizing story of a family from the hopeful early days of young marriage to parenthood, divorce, and the costly

aftermath that ripples through all of the affected lives.

Anne Hood calls Count the Ways, quote, rich and complex, brilliant and heartbreaking.

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