Are You There, Ghost? It’s Me, Chiwan.

In this week’s episode of Are You There, Ghost? It’s Me, Chiwan, our host sits down to chat with poet and art historian Jessica Lanay, author of the am•phib•ian, winner of the 2020 Naomi Long Madgett Poetry Prize. The two old friends talk, dreams, Southern and Global Southern cultures, what is haunting her now in Indiana & and the ghost of her son...but did they take the ghosts of the past with them? Find out on this week's episode. 

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In this episode of Are You There, Ghost? It's Me, Chiwan, our host catches up with horror writer extraordinaire Kate Maruyama, who was raised in a small college town in New England and now lives in Los Angeles with her family. Chiwan first met her in 2014 and was knocked out by her debut novel, Harrowgate, of which Daniel Handler, author of A Series of Unfortunate Events, says, "Strangely moving and movingly strange, Harrowgate is the world's creepiest answer to 'How's the wife and kid?'" Her new book, the novella Family Solstice, is equally frightening and equally moving.

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Welcome to the premiere episode of "Are You There, Ghost? It's Me, Chiwan." Find out how the show came to be and why Chiwan had to have Natashia Deón as his first guest. Natashia Deón is an NAACP Image Award Nominee, practicing criminal attorney, and college professor at UCLA and Antioch University. Her critically acclaimed novel, GRACE, was named Best Book by the New York Times. "What do these ghosts want—and why is literary fiction suddenly so full of them? (See: Lincoln in the Bardo, by George Saunders; White Tears, by Hari Kunzru; Grace, by Natashia Deón; The Underground Railroad, by Colson Whitehead.) It’s the past that won’t stay past, to paraphrase Faulkner. The ghosts—most of them, at any rate—want to rest, but they need restitution first.”  Her new upcoming "The Perishing" is coming out soon as well. Enjoy this first episode of Are You There, Ghost? It's Me, Chiwan. And make sure to hit the subscribe button!

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Chiwan Choi invites you to join him as he interviews up and coming horror writers and historians about about their most haunting experiences, paranormal influences and inspirations from around the world.