We’re so excited to share our latest Plume episode, featuring THE Jessamine Chan! Jessamine’s novel, The School for Good Mothers, is a New York Times bestseller, a penetrating and mind-bending speculative dystopian tale that provokes deep conversations. In this episode, Melanie and Dawn dive in with Jessamine, talking about The School For Good Mothers, publishing your first novel after 40, writing envy, motherhood, art and social change, “unlikeable” women in fiction, and more! Listen now on Buzzsprout or your favorite podcast platform.
Jessamine Chan’s short stories have appeared in Tin House and Epoch. A former reviews editor at Publishers Weekly, she holds an MFA from Columbia University. Her work has received support from the Elizabeth George Foundation, the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, the Wurlitzer Foundation, Jentel, the Kimmel Harding Nelson Center, the Anderson Center, VCCA, and Ragdale. Her first novel, The School for Good Mothers, is a New York Times bestseller and a Read with Jenna Today Show book club pick. She lives in Chicago with her husband and daughter. For more on Jessamine Chan, visit Jessamine’s website.
We really enjoyed this episode and hope you do too,
Dawn, Melanie, & Sam