The Artist's Statement

How do authors create their masterpieces? What inspires their stories? Join Davin Malasarn, co-founder of the Granum Foundation, as he interviews writers about craft and the writing life.

The Artist's Statement is a arts podcast hosted by Davin Malasarn, with 21 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

Davin Malasarn hosts The Artist's Statement, a arts show with 21 episodes published.

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  Episode #1

  Jonathan Gleason: Feeling Less Alone

  Jan 27, 202651 minS6

  <p>Jonathan Gleason joins us to talk about his debut essay collection Field Guide to Falling Ill. Drawing from personal experience, history, and medical science, Gleason’s moving book explores “the human lives behind the corporate, legal, and cultural practices that shape disease.” During our conversation, we discuss what inspired this book and the techniques Gleason used to create it. He reads from the essays “Inheritance,” about the origins of Taye-Sachs disease, and “Blood in the Water,” which illuminates the life of Gaëtan Dugas, a gay flight attendant who became known as “patient zero” in the beginning of the AIDS epidemic.</p><p...

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  Nicky Gonzalez: Toes Lifting Off

  Jul 22, 202551 minS0

  <p>Nicky Gonzalez joins us to discuss her Gothic debut novel, Mayra (2025, Random House), a story about two friends who reunite in a mysterious house in the Florida Everglades and uncover a hidden history. It’s a book that Karen Thompson Walker describes as "part coming-of-age story, part Twilight Zone episode, part thoughtful meditation on all of the ways that memory is itself a haunted house."  </p><p><br></p><p>Gonzalez hails from Hialeah, Florida. She earned her MFA from the University of Oregon, where she also taught fiction and composition. Her work has appeared in McSweeney’s Quarterly Concern, ...

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  Puloma Ghosh: It's No Longer Apple

  Jun 11, 202444 minS0

  <p>Puloma Ghosh joins us to discuss her debut short story collection Mouth (2024, Astra House). We discuss her vision for the genre-crossing book, her creative process, and how she got interested in writing, including her love of fan fiction. She reads from her stories “In The Winter” and “Persimmons.”</p> <p> </p> <p>Ghosh was born in Kolkata, India and raised outside Boston, Massachusetts. She earned her undergraduate degree from Tufts University and her MFA from Bennington College. She currently lives in Chicago.</p> <p> </p> <p>Ghosh’s short stories have appeared in One Story, Craft, Cutleaf, The Cantabrigian, and Another Chic...

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  Justin Torres: Inheriting Ghosts

  Dec 12, 202359 minS0

  <p>2023 National Book Award for Fiction winner Justin Torres joins us to discuss his novels We The Animals (2011, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt) and Blackouts (2023, Farrar, Straus and Giroux). We talk about what Torres considers success in his writing, the value of fiction that diverges from the realm of reality, and how he approached his award-winning new work.</p> <p><br></p> <p>Inspired in part by the book Sex Variants: A Study in Homosexual Patterns, Blackouts moves between fact and fiction as it explores the life of an unnamed narrator referred to as "nene," his older friend Juan Gay, and historical...

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  K-Ming Chang: Language Denaturalized

  Oct 24, 20231h 13mS0

  Season 3, Episode 2, features K-Ming Chang. She is the author of debut novel Bestiary, short story collection Gods of Want, and her latest novel, Organ Meats, her third book in what she describes as mythic tryptich, published by One World/Random House.  Chang is a Kundiman fellow, a National Book Foundation 5 Under 35 honoree, and an O. Henry Prize Winner. In this conversation, we discuss her evolving view of books and the characters she gives agency to. We delve into her earliest writing experiences and how she keeps in touch with those childhood inspirations. We also explore her use of language as a...

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