Late Night Debut, hosted by Amber Keller
May Book Club Selection! This month we feature Masande Ntshanga’s debut, The Reactive, published in North America by Two Dollar Radio. “Gritty and revealing, Ntshanga’s debut novel offers a brazen portrait of present-day South Africa,” says Publishers Weekly. “This is an eye-opening, ambitious novel.”
Act 1: Host Amber Keller covers entertaining book culture news and cool new debuts
Act 2: Sean Aaron Bowers and Cooper Lee Bombardier discuss Masande Ntshanga’s debut
Act 3: Sean Aaron Bowers speaks with Masande Ntshanga about creating a sense of immediacy for the reader, the special powers of poets and essayists, and more

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Purchase The Reactive at IndieBound
GIVEAWAY: WIN A FREE COPY OF NTSHANGA’S DEBUT.
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ABOUT OUR FEATURED AUTHOR:
Masande Ntshanga is the winner of the 2013 pen International New Voices Award. He was born in East London in 1986 and graduated with a degree in Film and Media and an Honours degree in English Studies from UCT, where he became a creative writing fellow, completing his Masters in Creative Writing under the Mellon Mays Foundation. He received a Fulbright Award and an NRF Freestanding Masters scholarship. His stories have appeared in Laugh It Off, itch, Imago and Habitat. He has also written for Rolling Stone magazine.
ABOUT OUR CO-HOSTS:

Sean Aaron Bowers, aka Johnny No Bueno, is the author of We Were Warriors (University of Hell press, 2012). Bowers currently resides in Portland, Oregon where he is studying to become a writing professor and a meditation teacher.

 
 
 
Cooper Lee Bombardier is a writer and visual artist based in Portland, Oregon. His work appears in many publications and anthologies, most recently in CutBank, Nailed Magazine, and Original Plumbing, and is forthcoming in The Kenyon Review and the anthology The Remedy–Essays on Queer Health Issues, (ed. Zena Sharman) from Arsenal Pulp Press. Visit him over at www.cooperleebombardier.com