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Ryan Chapman

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Ryan Chapman is a Sri Lankan-American writer from Minneapolis, Minnesota, who currently lives in Kingston, New York.

His debut novel "Riots I Have Known" (Simon & Schuster, 2019) was longlisted for The Center for Fiction’s First Novel Prize and named a best book of the year by Electric Literature and The Marshall Project. His second novel "The Audacity" will be published by Soho Press in April.

His criticism and humor pieces have appeared in Bookforum, The New Yorker, The Guardian, McSweeney's, The Los Angeles Times, BOMB, The Brooklyn Rail, Frieze, and elsewhere. He’s received fellowships from Millay Arts, the Vermont Studio Center, and the James Merrill House, and currently teaches at Vassar College and the Sewanee School of Letters.

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Ryan Chapman Thanks Kim, glad you enjoyed RIOTS! I'm hard at work on the next book, which will be another comic novel about someone looking back on their life. Whi…moreThanks Kim, glad you enjoyed RIOTS! I'm hard at work on the next book, which will be another comic novel about someone looking back on their life. While a lot of the specifics may change--my writing process seems to entail thousands of wrong turns--I can say the novel will ask how a person reinvents themselves after discovering their gilded existence is built on massive fraud. And if this discovery comes in late age, is it preferable to just go out with a bang?(less)
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Like many of you I've been sheltering in place and going a little batty. I miss my friends and the larger literary community. So in an attempt to make lemonade from these quarantine lemons, I'm hosting Nerd Jeopardy each week on zoom.

It's a literary trivia game show modeled off the TV program, but with more swearing and usually one technical mishap. We'll be answering clues in the for

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“Was it a fraud from the beginning? There must have been a decision. Some crossing of the Rubicon. He couldn’t see her launching the company—the cause—knowing it would never work. The sheer amount of labor. Of passion! What was the point if it was all a lie? Maybe the point was never the point. The point was to simply keep going. This was what alpinists and Ponzi schemers shared: the commitment to continue on, despite all.”
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“The scotch was peaty, acerbic. He coughed and Wright patted him on the back. “Easy, tiger. You’ve been burning the candle at both ends.” “What’s the Russian proverb? ‘Eating increases the appetite’?” “That’s about abstention.” “Respectfully disagree.” Guy pointed his glass at the yacht. “Are you going tonight?”
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“Daily am I myself the stakes and I win myself every night. —Walter Serner, Last Loosening”
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