737. Matthew Clark Davison

Otherppl with Brad Listi

Brad Listi

Arts, Society & Culture, Books

4.8 • 554 Ratings

🗓️ 3 November 2021

⏱️ 96 minutes

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Summary

Matthew Clark Davison is the author of the debut novel Doubting Thomas, available from Amble Press. Davison is a writer and educator living in San Francisco. He earned a BA and MFA in Creative Writing from San Francisco State University, where he now teaches full-time. His prose has been recently anthologized in Empty The Pews and 580-Split, and published in Guernica, The Atlantic Monthly, Foglifter, Lumina Magazine, Fourteen Hills, Per Contra, Educe, and others; and has been recognized with a Creative Work Grant, (Inaugural Awardee/San Francisco State University), Cultural Equities Grant (San Francisco Arts Commission), the Clark Gross Award for a Novel-in-Progress, and a Stonewall Alumni Award. *** 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. Support the show on Patreon Merch www.otherppl.com @otherppl Instagram YouTube 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	All right. Hello everybody. How you doing? I'm Brad Listy here in Los Angeles. Welcome to The Other People Show. I have a wonderful episode for you today. Matthew Clark Davison is my guest. He is the author of the debut novel Doubting Thomas.
0:23.6	Available now from Amble Press.
0:28.6	Matthew Clark Davison is a creator and a teacher of the lab writing classes with MCD.
0:35.6	A non-academic school started in 2007 in a friend's living room.
0:42.3	Incidentally, the textbook version of the lab, a craft book co-authored by best-selling writer Alice LaPlante,
0:49.4	will be published by Norton in 2022 next year.
0:55.8	Matthew Clark Davison teaches at San Francisco State University.
1:02.8	He also coaches aspiring writers on their creative manuscripts.
1:07.6	I had such a good time talking with him, and I loved this book.
1:14.3	That conversation is coming up in just a moment.
1:18.2	Today's episode is brought to you by Custom House Books, publisher of Burntcoat.
1:23.8	The new novel by Sarah Hall.
1:25.8	This is Sarah Hall's first novel in six years.
1:28.2	Long-awaited, new fiction by an author twice nominated for the Man Booker Award.
1:33.7	Burntcoat is an incredibly timely novel.
1:36.1	Not only is it about the spread of a deadly virus, it's also about immigration and about women in the art world.
1:45.5	Once again, the novel is called Burnt Coat,
1:49.1	available from Custom House Books, an imprint of Harper Collins.
1:53.3	Go get your copy wherever books are sold.
1:58.0	Hey, everybody, this is Brad Listy, the host of the Other People podcast.
2:01.4	If you're anything like me, you sometimes struggle to find the right book.
2:04.8	Does this ever happen to you?
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