{"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/69e279b423929c3a2a503d94?\" frameBorder=\"0\" width=\"700\" height=\"250\"></iframe>","title":"Abigail Savitch-Lew, Livonia Chow Mein","thumbnail_width":200,"thumbnail_height":200,"thumbnail_url":"https://open-images.acast.com/shows/6927a48ecaf6efa703dbae9e/1776449846628-0ded129e-5498-4fc1-8b51-f5c9cb3caa61.jpeg?height=200","description":"<p>Host Jason Blitman talks to debut novelist Abigail Savitch-Lew about <em>Livonia Chow Mein</em>. </p><p><br></p><p>Conversation highlights include:</p><p>🪧 Local activism</p><p>🧑‍🧑‍🧒‍🧒 Family legacy</p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p>Abigail Savitch-Lew&nbsp;is a writer of fiction and nonfiction and an American of Jewish and Chinese (Ashkenazi and Toisanese) descent. She 🪧has a BA in literary arts from Brown University and an MFA in fiction from Rutgers University-Newark. She is the author of the novel&nbsp;<em>Livonia Chow Mein</em>, and her short stories have been published in&nbsp;<em>The Round</em>,&nbsp;<em>Post Road</em>,<em>&nbsp;The Best Teen Writing of 2010</em>, and&nbsp;<em>The Apprentice Writer</em>. Previously, she was a staff reporter for&nbsp;<em>City Limits</em>,&nbsp;an Asian American Writers’ Workshop Margins Fellow, and an adjunct professor of creative writing at Rutgers. She lives in Brooklyn with her husband, the artist Emmanuel Knight, her sister-in-law, and their cat.</p>","author_name":"Jason Blitman"}