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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 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.

He is a member of the National Book Critics Circle and a contributing editor at BOMB.

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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)

A Literary Trivia Game Show, on Zoom

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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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