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The Process with Jude Brewer

STORYBOUND: Scott Nadelson

The Process with Jude Brewer

Jude Brewer

Science, Technology, Society & Culture

4.8 • 763 Ratings

🗓️ 27 July 2021

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

Scott Nadelson reads his short story "Liberté," backed by an original Storybound remix with Mount Comfort, and sound design and arrangement by Jude Brewer. Scott Nadelson is the author of three story collections, most recently "Aftermath," a memoir, "The Next Scott Nadelson: A Life in Progress," and a novel, "Between You and Me." His stories and essays have appeared in Ploughshares, Glimmer Train, The Southern Review, Crazyhorse, New England Review, Prairie Schooner, and Alaska Quarterly Review, and have been cited as notable in both Best American Short Stories and Best American Essays. Winner of the Oregon Book Award, the Great Lakes Colleges New Writers Award, and the Reform Judaism Fiction Prize, he teaches at Willamette University and lives in Salem, Oregon. Mount Comfort is a Fayetteville, Arkansas based indie band. Melding relaxed beats, guitars, and synths, Mount Comfort serves up chilled slow-burners that will keep you daydreaming. Their latest release, Anymore, came out in 2021. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Scott Nadelsohn grew up in northern New Jersey, before escaping to Oregon where he's lived for the past 24 years,

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teaching at Willamette University as the Halle Brown Ford Chair in Writing, and the Rainier Writing Workshop MFA program at Pacific Lutheran University.

0:19.0

Scott has published a memoir and a novel, as well as four

0:22.4

collections of short stories, one of which, the fourth corner of the world, was named a Jewish

0:26.9

Fiction Prize honor book by the Association of Jewish Libraries. Winner of the Reform Judaism

0:32.5

Fiction Prize, the Great Lakes College's Association New Writers Award and an Oregon Book Award,

0:38.5

Scott's work has appeared in a variety of magazines and literary journals,

0:42.6

including Plowshares, The Southern Review, New England Review, Harvard Review,

0:47.2

Glimmer Train, and Crazy Horse.

0:49.5

And his work has been cited as distinguished in both the Best American Short Stories

0:53.7

and best American

0:55.7

essays anthologies. He will be reading from his short story, Liberté, accompanied by an original

1:03.0

Storybound remix with Mount Comfort. Hi, I'm Scott Nadelson, and you're listening to Storybound.

1:12.6

I'll be reading my story Liberté, which was published in the Best American Short Stories

1:17.7

2020, edited by Curtis Sittenfeld.

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The story also appears in my newest collection, One of Us, which was published by Bookmark

1:26.7

Press at the University of Missouri,

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Kansas City in 2020.

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Welcome to Storybound, presented by Lit Hub Radio and the Podglomerate.

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I'm your host, Jude Brewer.

1:57.9

In just a little bit, you're going to get to hear a story about Louise Nevelson,

2:04.0

an artist, mother, and ex-wife living in the year 1933, as she travels a tumultuous world embroiled in her own search for agency and discovery.

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