Melissa Chadburn reads from her essay "The Throwaways," backed by an original Storybound remix with sound design and arrangement by Jude Brewer.
Melissa Chadburn’s writing has appeared in The LA Times, NYT Book Review, NYRB, Longreads, Paris Review online, and dozens other places. Her essay on food insecurity was published in "Best American Food Writing 2019." She’s done extensive reporting on the child welfare system and appears in the Netflix docuseries "The Trials of Gabriel Fernandez." Her debut novel, "A Tiny Upward Shove," is forthcoming with Farrar, Straus, & Giroux. She is a Ph.D. candidate at USC’s Creative Writing Program. Melissa is a worker lover and through her own work and literary citizenship strives to upend economic violence.
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Melissa Chadburn: "The Throwaways"

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Transcripts can be found at cooperatewiththeprocess.com

Street interviews by Christopher Olin.
Music by John Fio.
Artwork by Allison Conway.

Sources:
The War Came To Us: Life and Death in Ukraine, by Christopher Miller
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4: pishite pravdu

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Music created for this show by John Fio.
Show artwork by Allison Conway.
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3: healing

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Learn more about Alex Mills and his team Frabjous Studios here.

The song at the beginning and end of this episode was created for the show by John Fio.
Show artwork by Allison Conway.
Transcripts available at cooperatewiththeprocess.com

Sources:
Game Engines as an art form, Hajime Hoshi
Why Ludum Dare is so important to indie developers, Vice
Video games can never be art, Roger Ebert
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2: BANKWAVE

"Before you have a kid. I feel like you're sort of going up a roller coaster and you've never been on a roller coaster before and you just like you feel that you're inching towards the top and you just don't know what to expect. And that's kind of like writing a book. I mean, I feel like you shouldn't know what's coming when you enter in a book." - Andrew Lipstein, author of THE VEGAN.

Show artwork by Allison Conway.

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1: Taking away from others

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Melissa Chadburn: "The Throwaways"

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