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Ryan Chapman

Ryan Chapman
Ryan Chapman is the author of the novels The Audacity (Soho Press, 2024) and Riots I Have Known (Simon & Schuster, 2019). His writing has appeared in The New Yorker, The Guardian, The Los Angeles Times, The Sewanee Review, The Believer, and elsewhere. He teaches at Vassar College and the Sewanee School of Letters, and is a contributing editor to BOMB magazine. He lives in Kingston, New York.


How Much is Enough? On the Writerly Balance Between Money and Time

For Novelist Ryan Chapman, “There are wants, and there are needs.”
April 19, 2024  By Ryan Chapman
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100 Tips That May (or May Not) Improve Your Next Novel

Ryan Chapman on the Craft and Practice of Writing Fiction (and Drinking Gin)
April 2, 2024  By Ryan Chapman
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Is Wonder Boys the Best-Ever Onscreen Depiction of a Writer?

Ryan Chapman Revisits the Brilliance of the 2000 Adaptation of Michael Chabon’s Novel
February 4, 2022  By Ryan Chapman
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Drive My Car, a New Adaptation of the Haruki Murakami Story, Far Surpasses Its Source Material

Ryan Chapman on Ryusuke Hamaguchi’s Three-Hour Masterpiece
November 24, 2021  By Ryan Chapman
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The Biggest Influence on My Novel Is… McDonald’s?

Ryan Chapman Worries It Is a Bad Idea to Compare
Your Writing to a Big Mac
May 21, 2019  By Ryan Chapman
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Hungover and happy at Minnesota’s new book festival, Wordplay.

May 15, 2019  By Ryan Chapman
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