Ethan Chatagnier, Author of Singer Distance

January 30, 2023 • 00:58:23
Ethan Chatagnier, Author of Singer Distance
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Ethan Chatagnier, Author of Singer Distance

Jan 30 2023 | 00:58:23

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Show Notes

Today, we have Ethan Chatagnier on the show today. He is the author of SINGER DISTANCE, the novel that came out in the fall and is the focus of this conversation, and of WARNINGS FROM THE FUTURE, a story collection that came out in 2018. His short fiction has appeared in a variety of literary journals and have won a Pushcart Prize and been listed as notable in the Best American Short Stories and the Million Writers Award. He is a graduate of Fresno State, where he won the Larry Levis Prize in Poetry, and of Emerson College, where he earned an MA in Publishing and Writing. He lives in Fresno, California with his family.

Books:

Kazuo Ishiguro

Equilateral Ken Kalfus 

Light from Other Stars Erika Swyler 

Appleseed Matt Bell 

Ted Chiang 

Saturnalia Stephanie Feldman 

What We Fed to the Manticore Talia Lakshmi Kolluri 

Sweet, Soft, Plenty, Rhythm Laura Warrell 

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