776. Abbigail Nguyen Rosewood

Otherppl with Brad Listi

Brad Listi

Arts, Society & Culture, Books

4.8 • 554 Ratings

🗓️ 8 June 2022

⏱️ 86 minutes

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Abbigail Nguyen Rosewood is the author of the novel Constellations of Eve, available from DVAN/UTTP. It is the official June pick of The Nervous Breakdown Book Club. Rosewood was born in Vietnam, where she lived until the age of twelve. Her debut novel, If I Had Two Lives, has been hailed as "a tale of staggering artistry" by the Los Angeles Review of Books and "a lyrical, exquisitely written novel" by the New York Journal of Books. The New Yorker called it "a dangerous fantasy world" that "double haunts the novel." Her short fiction and essays can be found at Electric Lit, LitHub, Catapult, The Southampton Review, The Brooklyn Review, Columbia Journal, and The Adroit Journal, among others. In 2019, her hybrid writing was featured in a multimedia art and poetry exhibit at Eccles Gallery. Her fiction has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize, Best of the Net, and Best American Short Story 2020. She is the founder of Neon Door, a forthcoming immersive literary exhibit. *** 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. Available where podcasts are available: Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher, iHeart Radio, etc. Subscribe to Brad Listi’s email newsletter. Support the show on Patreon Merch @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	Hello everybody.
0:07.0	Welcome to The Other People Show.
0:10.0	My name is Brad Lestie and I'm reporting to you from Los Angeles, California.
0:15.0	It's good to be with you.
0:17.0	I appreciate you tuning in.
0:19.0	Today on the program, my guest is Abigail Wynne Rosewood,
0:24.8	author of the novel Constellations of Eve. So I think sometimes the, at least from what I've
0:33.8	noticed or observed in the, in the Western world that the kind of romanticism is kind
0:40.5	of spoiled our view of relationship that you know romanticism works for the honeymoon stage for
0:49.3	when you first meet somebody and things are very like.
0:55.0	But then once you're past that,
0:59.0	you know, that the romanticism kind of fails to encompass other aspects of relationships.
1:08.0	And I think our expectations is what lead to, you know,
1:12.9	failures and endings.
1:15.7	Okay, that was Abigail Wynne Rosewood,
1:19.5	whose new novel Constellations of Eve
1:21.6	is available from D-VAN,
1:25.9	the diasporic Vietnamese Artists Network, which is a publishing imprint,
1:31.6	founded by Isabel Tui-Pelod, a scholar of Asian American history and literature,
1:38.0	and Pulitzer Prize winner, Vietan Wyn, a past guest on this program.
1:42.9	The purpose and the mission of D-VAN is to promote
1:47.8	Vietnamese American literature. This is a publishing venture done in collaboration with Texas Tech
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