Ep. 74: Grace Talusan & Nathan Rostron

TK with James Scott: A Writing, Reading, & Books Podcast

At first, she wrote essays as a distraction from her fiction, but over time, Grace Talusan felt the pull of the experiences that would form the foundation of her memoir, THE BODY PAPERS. From immigration to cancer to sexual abuse, the book depicts a life marked by trauma, and yet through it all there is humor, family, and hope. Grace tells James how she embraced her own story, faced honesty, and escaped despair. Plus, Grace's editor and Restless Books marketing director, Nathan Rostron.

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Grace Talusan: http://gracetalusan.com/

Buy THE BODY PAPERS: https://www.indiebound.org/book/9781632061836

Grace and James Discuss:

UC-Irvine

Joanne Diaz

Restless Books

Ilan Stavans

ONCE MORE TO THE RODEO by Calvfin Hennick

Ross White's THE GRIND

Bread Loaf Writer's Conference

Tell All

Grub Street

Alysia Abbott

Celeste Ng

Porter Square Books

Whitney Scharer

Chunky Monkeys

Jeff Rubin

THE FACT OF A BODY by Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich

Tufts University Counseling Center

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Nathan Rostron of RESTLESS BOOKS: https://restlessbooks.org/

Nathan and James discuss:

Graywolf Press

New Directions Publishing

Farrar, Straus and Giroux

W.W. Norton & Co.

Simon & Schuster

Regan Arts

Judith Regan

Ilan Stavans

Amherst College

THE BOY by Marcus Malte, Translated by Emma Ramadan & Tom Roberge

Riff Raff

Richard Pevear and Larissa Volohonsky

Prix Femina

Editions Zulma

THE INVISIBLE BRIDGE by Julie Orringer

Cormac McCarthy

THE BODY PAPERS by Grace Talusan

THE IMMIGRANT WRITING PRIZE

TEMPORARY PEOPLE by Deepak Unnikrishnan

George Saunders

Salman Rushdie

Hindu Prize

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