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Otherppl with Brad Listi

780. Chantal V. Johnson

Otherppl with Brad Listi

Brad Listi

Arts, Society & Culture, Books

4.8554 Ratings

🗓️ 6 July 2022

⏱️ 77 minutes

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Summary

Chantal V. Johnson is the author of the debut novel Post-Traumatic, available from Little, Brown. Post-Traumatic was named a Best Debut Novel of 2022 by Debutiful and hailed as a "sharp psychological novel" by The New Yorker. Chantal graduated from Stanford Law School and worked as a tenant lawyer for over seven years. A 2018 Center for Fiction Emerging Writers Fellow, she lives in New York. *** 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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price and participation may vary subject to availability hello everybody how Hello everybody. How are you? Welcome back to The Other People Show or welcome to The Other People Show. My name is Brad Listy and I am in Los Angeles. Today on the program, my guest is Chantal V. Johnson, author of the debut novel Post Traumatic.

1:16.8

But that craft question was incredibly important to me because I didn't want to, I didn't want to waste this material.

1:25.2

It's like, this is, I've learned a lot and I have lots that I would like to share, but I don't want to waste this material. It's like, this is, I've learned a lot and I have lots that I would

1:29.2

like to share, but I don't want to waste this by producing something that is not almost like

1:36.7

worthy of the experience. Okay, that was Chantal V. Johnson talking about her debut novel, Post-Tromatic, available now from Little Brown.

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Post-traumatic explores the life and relationships of a character named Vivian, a black and Latinx woman in her 30s,

1:58.9

an aspiring writer who works by day as an attorney advocating

2:04.1

for patients in a New York psychiatric hospital. Vivian is the survivor of abuse, childhood abuse,

2:15.0

and in the pages of post-traumatic, Vivian's seemingly stable and successful

2:22.3

young adult life is upended by the lingering effects of trauma and the destabilizing impact of

2:29.3

family estrangement. It is also a very funny book oftentimes.

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