264 HoL Presents Tommy Orange's "Copperopolis" (a Storybound Project) | PLUS a Visit from Jacke Lonelyhearts

The History of Literature

Jacke Wilson

History, Books, Arts

4.6 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 14 September 2020

⏱️ 73 minutes

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The History of Literature Podcast presents "Copperopolis," written and performed by Tommy Orange, and produced by Storybound, a radio theater podcast. PLUS Jacke Lonelyhearts takes a look at the personal ads in The New York Review of Books. Tommy Orange is faculty at the Institute of American Indian Arts MFA program. He is an enrolled member of the Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes of Oklahoma. He was born and raised in Oakland, California, and currently lives in Angels Camp, California. He’s the author of There There, which was one of the finalists for the 2019 Pulitzer Prize and a recipient of many other awards and accolades. Ryan Dann is a sound designer and composer based in Brooklyn, New York. Storybound is a radio theater program designed for the podcast age. Hosted by Jude Brewer and with original music composed for each episode, the podcast features the voices of today’s literary icons reading their essays, poems, and fiction. Help support the show at patreon.com/literature or historyofliterature.com/shop. (We appreciate it!) Find out more at historyofliterature.com, jackewilson.com, or by following Jacke and Mike on Twitter at @thejackewilson and @literatureSC. Or send an email to [email protected]. New!!! Looking for an easy to way to buy Jacke a coffee? Now you can at paypal.me/jackewilson. Your generosity is much appreciated! The History of Literature Podcast is a member of Lit Hub Radio and the Podglomerate Network. Learn more at www.thepodglomerate.com/historyofliterature. *** This show is a part of the Podglomerate network, a company that produces, distributes, and monetizes podcasts. We encourage you to visit the website and sign up for our newsletter for more information about our shows, launches, and events. For more information on how The Podglomerate treats data, please see our Privacy Policy. Since you're listening to The History of Literature, we'd like to suggest you also try other Podglomerate shows surrounding literature, history, and storytelling like Storybound, Micheaux Mission, and The History of Standup. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	The History of Literature Podcast is a member of the Podglamorate Network and LIT Hub Radio.
0:07.0	Hello, I'm Jack Wilson.
0:11.0	Welcome to the History of Literature. Okay, here we go everyone. Welcome to the podcast. I am Jack Wilson, your host, Tommy Orange.
0:36.4	We have a short story today, courtesy of the good folks at Story Bound, a, for September.
0:44.0	We've been doing one of these a month for the past couple of months,
0:47.0	which helps me take a bit of a breather and recharge some batteries and read.
0:52.0	Just spent a few days catching up with
0:55.2	correspondence which was amazing took me a long time but I'm glad to keep up with people who've been kind enough to email me.
1:05.0	So I've got some emails for you today, some listener emails, and we're going to be doing something else.
1:11.0	That's fun, I hope. We are going to explore the world of New York
1:16.4	review of books, personal ads. And then we'll have a radio drama or a story in
1:21.7	the radio drama, it's not, style radio theater I guess we should say with Tommy orange
1:27.5	Tommy orange if you're not familiar with him is on the faculty at the Institute of American Indian Arts MFA program.
1:35.4	He's an enrolled member of the Cheyenne and Arapahoe tribes of Oklahoma.
1:40.0	He was born and raised in Oakland, California.
1:42.6	He currently lives in Angels Camp, California.
1:46.0	He is the author of There There,
1:48.3	which was one of the finalists for the 2019 Pulitzer Prize,
1:52.4	a winner of the American Book Awards, was named one of the 10 Best
1:56.3	Books of 2018 by the New York Times Book Review.
2:00.3	It also won the Center for Fiction's First Novel Prize and was named one of the best books of the year by a very long list of publications.
2:10.0	We are glad to have his story here today, Copperopolis.
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