Late Night Lit: Jason Mott | Kathryn Gordon
Late Night with Seth Meyers Podcast
NBC
4.3 • 3.5K Ratings
🗓️ 27 December 2021
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
In the last episode of Late Night Lit for 2021, Late Night's Sarah Jenks-Daly talks to Jason Mott, author of One Hell of a Book, which won the National Book Award for Fiction. She also chats with Kathryn Gordon, the Marketing and Publicity Director for Legacy Lit.
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| 0:00.0 | Let's say you love sports, but are also, you know, a busy person. |
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| 0:12.9 | Listen to the lead starting five on Amazon Music or wherever you get your podcasts. |
| 0:18.2 | Hey, everybody, Seth Meyers here. |
| 0:22.8 | Welcome to another edition of Late Night Lit, our monthly podcast series, celebrating books |
| 0:27.4 | and authors here to discuss what's new in the world of books is Late Night's own literary |
| 0:32.0 | expert, Sarah Jenks' Daily. |
| 0:34.1 | Take it away, Sarah. |
| 0:35.1 | Hi, everyone. |
| 0:38.0 | I'm Sarah Jenks' Daily and welcome to Late Night Lit. |
| 0:41.2 | This is our last episode of 2021, and we're closing out the year with two exceptional guests. |
| 0:46.8 | First, best-selling author, Jason Mott, who's latest novel, One Hell of a Book, recently |
| 0:52.3 | won the National Book Award for Fiction. |
| 0:54.9 | We also speak to Kathy Gordon, Marketing and Publicity Director at Legacy Lit, a Hachette |
| 1:00.4 | Books imprint dedicated to amplifying the voices and stories of underrepresented individuals. |
| 1:13.9 | Jason Mott is a best-selling author of four novels and the newly minted winner of the |
| 1:18.1 | National Book Award for Fiction for his most recent, Hell of a Book. |
| 1:22.6 | He's an incredible read and one that he conceptualized, considered, and worked on for years |
| 1:27.4 | before bringing it to the page. |
| 1:29.6 | It mainly follows an author on a book tour, a situation Mott is intimately familiar with, |
| 1:34.4 | but also weaves in other narratives and characters to create a complete story, one that incorporates |
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