787. Melissa Chadburn

Otherppl with Brad Listi

Brad Listi

Arts, Society & Culture, Books

4.8 • 554 Ratings

🗓️ 24 August 2022

⏱️ 77 minutes

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Melissa Chadburn is the author of the debut novel A Tiny Upward Shove, available from Farrar, Straus, & Giroux. Chadburn's writing has appeared in The Los Angeles Times, The New York Times Book Review, The New York Review of Books, The Paris Review Daily, The Best American Food Writing, and many other publications. Her extensive reporting on the child welfare system appears in the Netflix docuseries The Trials of Gabriel Fernandez. Melissa is a worker lover and through her own labor and literary citizenship strives to upend economic violence. Her mother taught her how to sharpen a pencil with a knife and she's basically been doing that ever since. She is a Ph.D. candidate in Creative Writing at the University of Southern California and lives in greater Los Angeles. *** 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	Hey folks, this is Brad Listy. I just want to let you know I have a novel out. I wrote a novel. It's out there right now. It's called Be Brief and Tell Them Everything.
0:10.4	It's available in trade paperback ebook and an audiobook edition narrated by me. And if you want to read it, you can do that.
0:21.2	It's called Be Brief and Tell Them Everything,
0:24.1	available right now from Ig.
0:31.4	Who, who do you?
0:32.9	Hey there, how you doing?
0:36.1	What's going on, everybody?
0:37.2	This is Brad Listy.
0:38.3	I am the host of the Other People Show, and I'm here in Los Angeles, California.
0:44.7	It's nice to be with you.
0:46.4	Thanks for listening.
0:48.2	Today on the program, my guest is Melissa Chadburn, author of the debut novel, A Tiny Upward Shove.
0:59.4	It's like fear of failure, fear of success, which is it, you know, and I got the book contract, and I blew up my life.
1:06.3	I mean, I broke up with my partner at the time, who is wife now and I went and I like got a shitty
1:13.5	apartment in Highland Park and like I and that was another thing is like all my friends are
1:19.4	sober and my wife is sober and so I think I wanted to see what my life would look like
1:24.7	with the lid blown off like I needed to just do a little more research to
1:29.5	see you know if I was truly had a problem with alcohol or not and I did and and luckily I had
1:37.4	enough resources and like people around me to know okay like I want to reach you know like I want to
1:43.5	live I want to be, you know, like I want to live, I want to be here.
1:45.8	That was Melissa Chadburn, author of the debut novel A Tiny Upward Shove, available now from
1:53.3	Farrar Strauss and Giroux. That conversation is imminent today's episode is made possible by vintage home to bold new voices
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