Late Night Debut, hosted by Amber Keller

Inaugural Book Club Selection! This month we feature Margaret Malone’s debut story collection, People Like You, published by Atelier26. “People Like You is a powerful debut by a writer of immense talent,” says Cheryl Strayed, author of Brave Enough and Wild. “In stories that shimmer and burn with beauty and sorrow, generosity and wit, Margaret Malone reveals the deepest, darkest, and most illuminating truths about what it means to be human. I love this book beyond measure.” 

Act 1: Host Amber Keller covers entertaining book news and cool new debuts

Act 2: Amelia Gray and Don Waters discuss Margaret Malone’s debut

Act 3: Amber Keller speaks with Margaret Malone about getting published, being funny and whether her characters Bert and Cheryl belong together

 

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GIVEAWAY: WIN A FREE COPY OF MALONE'S DEBUT.
LISTEN TO THE EPISODE FOR DETAILS, THEN EMAIL
AMBER@LATENIGHTLIBRARY.ORG BY
MIDNIGHT ON NOVEMBER 22.

ABOUT OUR FEATURED AUTHOR:
Margaret Malone's writing has appeared in The Missouri Review, Oregon Humanities, Coal City Review, Swink, The Wordstock Ten Anthology, latimes.com, Too Much Coffee Man and elsewhere.

ABOUT OUR CO-HOSTS:

Amelia Gray is the author of four books: Gutshot, THREATS, Museum of the Weird, and AM/PM. Her fiction and essays have appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Tin House, and VICE. She lives in Los Angeles.

 

 

 

Don Waters is the author of Sunland, a novel, and the story collection Desert Gothic, which won the Iowa Short Fiction Award. His fiction has been widely published and anthologized in the Pushcart Prize, Best of the West, and New Stories from the Southwest.