S5:E8 - Bethany Faulk & 'Seichō Summer'

About this episode

Annie Beth Donahue interviews Bethany Faulk about her novel 'Seichō Summer' and its themes of growth and nostalgia.

Annie Beth Donahue interviews Bethany Faulk about the newest Bandersnatch Book release, Seichō Summer ! Bethany describes Seichō Summer as a kind of 90’s Little House on the Prairie, albeit with sushi rather than smoked meats! But both Faulk and Laura Ingalls Wilder lightly fictionalized their own childhoods to make a story that could resonate with all generations about feeling misplaced somewhere… until you slowly grow up and connect the dots. (成長 - Seichō is Japanese for “growth”) Bethany started with her own teenage journals to remember the joys and angsts she’d forgotten and to lovingly recreate the 90’s and to write this coming of age novel from a true place. Annie Beth and Bethany also discuss how Bethany once got a sushi roll named after her! Mentioned in this episode: * Seichō Summer - Bethany Faulk www.bandersnatchbooks.com/books/seicho-summer * National Novel Writing Month - NaNoWriMo * Little Women - Louisa May Alcott * The Anxious Generation - Jonathan Haidt * Little House in the Big Woods - Laura Ingalls Wilder * Flicker.Press Click to learn more about Bandersnatch Books ! www.bandersnatchbooks.com Special Thanks to: Son of Laughter for our theme song: “Cricket in a…

People in this episode

Host: Annie Beth Donahue

Guest: Bethany Faulk

Topics covered

• coming of age
• 90s nostalgia
• fiction writing
• interview
• childhood memories

Keywords

• Seichō Summer
• Bethany Faulk
• 90s
• Little House on the Prairie
• coming of age
• fiction

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Bandersnatch Books, Flicker.Press

Books & works: Seichō Summer, Little House on the Prairie, Little Women, The Anxious Generation, Little House in the Big Woods

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