Episode 4: Ryan Chapman

This week on the Maris Review, Maris talks to Ryan Chapman, the author of Riots I Have Known. The two discuss the influences on the book, writing from a transgressive voice and the fictive distance between the author and satire, the privatization of prisons, and exciting literary voices coming from Sri Lanka.  Ryan Chapman is a Sri Lankan American novelist originally from Minneapolis, Minnesota. He has written online and in print for The New Yorker, GQ, Longreads, Guernica, Bookforum, BOMB, and The Believer, and received residency fellowships from The Millay Colony and Vermont Studio Center. He lives in Kingston, New York. Recommended Books: Money by Martin Amis The Sugar-Frosted Nutsack by Mark Leyner The Loser by Thomas Bernhard Too Loud a Solitude by Bohumil Hrabal The Heart Is a Muscle The Size of a Fist by Sunil Yapa On Sal Mal Lane by Ru Freeman Music: Billie Eilish The Magnetic Fields Maris’s MP3 Blog Playlist Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices