S4 Ep. 15: Workshop Politics: Matthew Salesses on Centering Traditionally Marginalized Writers

fiction/non/fiction

Bestselling novelist Matthew Salesses joins co-hosts Whitney Terrell and V.V. Ganeshananthan to talk about the politics, history, and context driving different modes of teaching fiction writing. After sharing an excerpt from his new book Craft in the Real World, Salesses explains how the traditional creative writing workshop model fails marginalized writers, and why examining craft questions through a range of lenses should matter to both writers and readers. He also reads from his new novel Disappear Doppelgänger Disappear, which is a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award.

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This podcast is produced by Andrea Tudhope.

Selected readings:

Matthew Salesses

• Craft in the Real World
• Disappear Doppelgänger Disappear
• The Hundred-Year Flood
• I’m Not Saying, I’m Just Saying
• Different Racisms: On Stereotypes, the Individual, and Asian American Masculinity
• The Last Repatriate

Others:

• Tiger Writing by Gish Jen
• No-No Boy by John Okada
• Who Killed Vincent Chin? (documentary) by Christine Choy and Renee Tajima-Pena
• Drumline (film) by Charles Stone III
• A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry
• The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
• “Unsilencing the Writing Workshop” by Beth Nguyen
• Native Son by Richard Wright
• Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
• The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time 3D for Nintendo 3DS
• Books by Haruki Murakami

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