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 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
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