Jessamine Chan
Thresholds
English - June 01, 2022 04:00 - 41 minutesBooks Arts Fiction Homepage Download Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Jordan talks with Jessamine Chan about the ways having a kid changed her writing, about the difficulties mothers face in America, and about the one very good day of writing that led to The School for Good Mothers.
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"Where is Your Mother?" by Rachel Aviv (The New Yorker)Cost of Living by Emily MaloneySCOTUS draft decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health OrganizationThe Ragdale FoundationJessamine Chan's debut novel is The School for Good Mothers, an instant New York Times bestseller. Her short stories have appeared in Tin House and Epoch. A former reviews editor at Publishers Weekly, she holds an MFA from Columbia University and a BA from Brown University. Her work has received support from the Elizabeth George Foundation, the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, the Wurlitzer Foundation, Jentel, the Kimmel Harding Nelson Center, the Anderson Center, VCCA, and Ragdale. She lives in Chicago with her husband and daughter.
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