{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"<iframe src=\"https://embed.acast.com/$/6927a48ecaf6efa703dbae9e/6927a4b5064897cd5ffc028c?\" frameBorder=\"0\" width=\"700\" height=\"250\"></iframe>","title":"Upcoming/Up & Coming feat. Zoë Bossiere, Alan Murrin, and Essie Chambers","thumbnail_width":200,"thumbnail_height":200,"thumbnail_url":"https://open-images.acast.com/shows/6927a48ecaf6efa703dbae9e/890f151f6fe0e65aae2bb7ab5b84b6e9.jpeg?height=200","description":"<p>In the fourth installment of their debut novelists series <b>UPCOMING / UP &amp; COMING</b>, <b>Jason</b> and <b>Brett</b> talk to three new writers about their recently and soon-to-be released books. <b>Zoë Bossiere</b> (<em>Cactus Country</em>, May 21) talks about navigating identity growing up in a trailer park; <b>Alan Murrin</b> (<em>The Coast Road</em>, June 4) shares how short stories transformed into a novel; and <b>Essie Chambers </b>(<em>Swift River</em>, June 4) talks about how ancestral inheritance shaped her book, and also learns about the cootie shot.  </p><p><b>Zoë Bossiere</b> (they/she) is writer from Tucson, Arizona. They are the managing editor of <em>Brevity: A Journal of Concise Literary Nonfiction</em>. as well as the coeditor of two anthologies: <em>The Best of Brevity</em> (Rose Metal Press, 2020) and <em>The Lyric Essay as Resistance: Truth from the Margins</em> (Wayne State UP, 2023). Bossiere&apos;s debut, <em>Cactus Country: A Boyhood Memoir</em>, chronicles their experiences growing up as a trans boy in a Tucson, Arizona trailer park.</p><p><b>Alan Murrin</b> is an Irish writer based in Berlin. His short story, “The Wake,” won the 2021 Bournemouth Writing Prize and was shortlisted for short story of the year at the Irish Book Awards. <em>The Coast Road</em> was shortlisted for the PFD Queer Fiction prize. Murrin is also the recipient of an Irish Arts Council Agility Award and an Arts Council Literature Bursary. He is a graduate of the prose fiction masters at the University of East Anglia, and writes for the <em>Irish Times </em>and the <em>Times Literary Supplement,</em> as well as <em>Art Review</em> and <em>e-flux.</em></p><p><b>Essie Chambers</b> earned her MFA in creative writing from Columbia University and has received fellowships from the MacDowell Vermont Studio Center, and Baldwin for the Arts. A former film and television executive, she was a producer on the documentary <em>Descendant</em>, which was released by the Obamas’ Higher Ground production company and Netflix in 2022. <em>Swift River </em>is her debut novel. </p><p><a rel=\"payment\" href=\"https://gaysreading.substack.com/\">Support the show</a></p><p><a href='https://allstora.com/pages/gays-reading-book-club?utm_source=host_jasonblitman&amp;utm_medium=host&amp;utm_campaign=gays_reading&amp;utm_content=podcast_ig_bio'><b>BOOK CLUB!</b></a><b><br/></b>Sign up for the Gays Reading Book Club <a href='https://allstora.com/pages/gays-reading-book-club?utm_source=host_jasonblitman&amp;utm_medium=host&amp;utm_campaign=gays_reading&amp;utm_content=podcast_ig_bio'><b>HERE</b></a> <br/>December Book: <em>Like Family</em> by Erin O. White</p> <p><b>SUBSTACK!</b><br/><a href='https://gaysreading.substack.com/'>https://gaysreading.substack.com/</a></p> <p><b>MERCH!</b><br/><a href='http://gaysreading.printful.me'>http://gaysreading.printful.me</a></p> <p><b>WATCH!</b><br/><a href='https://youtube.com/@gaysreading'>https://youtube.com/@gaysreading</a><br/> <br/><b>FOLLOW!</b><br/>Instagram: <a href='http://www.instagram.com/gaysreading'>@gaysreading</a> | <a href='https://www.instagram.com/jasonblitman'>@jasonblitman</a><br/>Bluesky: <a href='https://bsky.app/profile/gaysreading.bsky.social'>@gaysreading</a> | <a href='https://bsky.app/profile/jasonblitman.bsky.social'>@jasonblitman</a><br/><br/><b>CONTACT!</b><br/><a href='mailto:hello@gaysreading.com'>hello@gaysreading.com</a></p>","author_name":"Jason Blitman"}