Shelby Van Pelt Makes Her Debut

The Book Case

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Fiction, Arts, Society & Culture, Books

4.7 • 913 Ratings

🗓️ 2 June 2022

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Odds are you’ve never heard of Shelby Van Pelt. She is a new author, and as we spoke she was just a week away from the publication of her first novel “Remarkably Bright Creatures”. Strange to say but this is a novel novel and both of us loved it. A writing advisor once told Shelby to try writing from an unlikely point of view - and has she done just that! Her narrator is an octopus. But not just any octopus. Marcellus is a captive in an aquarium and from that vantage point is an observer of we humans. He doesn’t have much respect for what he sees, but his warm, funny and wary narrative will have you hooked from the first page. As in almost all our podcasts, you’ll also hear from an independent bookseller from somewhere in the country. We believe independent book stores are critical. In this podcast, Otto Penzler of The Mysterious Bookshop in New York talks about mysteries as literature. Believe us, Otto knows mysteries, and is acutely aware that we all love ‘em. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:32.7	Welcome to the book base. I am Kate Gibson. And this week we're going to be talking to a first-time author who you've never heard of, but man, we want you to know her work.
0:43.9	Her first book is remarkable, and it is remarkably bright creatures, but we will get to that in just a moment.
0:49.9	I should probably introduce you to my co-host. Who is he?
0:56.8	And I'm Charlie Gibson, a Kate's co-host,
1:01.5	who sometimes she remembers to introduce, sometimes she forgets, but that's the story of my life.
1:09.8	Anyway, our book today is Shelby Van Pelt, the author, Remarkably Bright Creatures, is the name of the book, and it is written from a very unusual point of view, as you will hear.
1:13.6	This book has been out, came out in April, and we strongly recommend it to you.
1:18.6	But we're going to start.
1:20.6	A lot of people have asked, what are you reading?
1:22.6	And so, Kate, what are you reading?
1:25.6	Yeah, it probably stands to reason that in a podcast all about books, we should, you know, talk about what we're reading.
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