35: Nothing Good Can Come From This with Kristi Coulter
Soberful
Veronica Valli
4.8 • 628 Ratings
🗓️ 23 January 2019
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Veronica welcomes special guest author Kristi Coulter to discuss her first book, Nothing Good Can Come From This, a memoir in essay form about her experiences with alcohol and sobriety. Topics include feminism, relationships and what it's like being a sober woman.
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| 0:00.0 | I dreamt that you were twisting through seven suns of gold and the gypsy was insisting |
| 0:10.1 | that his story must be told I came two in the morning but I took it as a warning |
| 0:19.1 | that you might be a treasure. |
| 0:22.4 | I could touch but never hold. |
| 0:27.7 | Hi, everybody. |
| 0:28.9 | Welcome to the Soberful podcast. |
| 0:31.3 | I'm really excited today because I've got one of my very favorite people on the podcast as a guest. |
| 0:37.2 | And I'd like to welcome Christy Coulter. |
| 0:39.2 | Hi, Christy. Hi, Veronica. Christy, some of you may know, is the author of an amazing book called |
| 0:45.6 | Nothing Good Can Come from This. She holds an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Michigan |
| 0:51.4 | and is a former Ragdale Foundation resident. What does that mean? |
| 0:57.0 | So Ragdale is this lovely place in Lake Forest, Illinois, outside of Chicago. |
| 1:02.3 | Okay. And it basically means they let you go stay there and write for a month and they feed you. |
| 1:07.6 | Wonderful. Wow. Yeah, it was nice. |
| 1:11.6 | I'd like to go back. |
| 1:12.3 | Wow. |
| 1:16.9 | Also the recipient of a grant from the National Foundation for Advancement in the Arts. |
| 1:18.2 | Well, that I can understand. |
| 1:20.9 | You are advancing the arts, definitely. |
| 1:21.7 | I've tried. |
| 1:25.7 | Her work has appeared in the Paris Review, The All. |
| 1:29.0 | Glamour, Vox, the Mississippi Review, Long Reeds, |
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