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Otherppl with Brad Listi

518. Susan Henderson

Otherppl with Brad Listi

Brad Listi

Arts, Society & Culture, Books

4.8554 Ratings

🗓️ 6 May 2018

⏱️ 75 minutes

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Summary

Susan Henderson is the author of the novel THE FLICKER OF OLD DREAMS (Harper Perennial). Henderson is a five-time Pushcart Prize nominee and the recipient of an Academy of American Poets award. Her debut novel, UP FROM THE BLUE, was published in 2010, and shorter work has been published in a number of anthologies, magazines, and newspapers. She lives in New York and blogs at the writer support group, LitPark.com. *** Otherppl with Brad Listi is a weekly literary podcast featuring in-depth interviews with today's leading writers. Available where podcasts are available: Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher, iHeart Radio, etc. Subscribe to Brad Listi’s email newsletter Support the show on Patreon Merch @otherppl Instagram  YouTube TikTok Email the show: letters [at] otherppl [dot] com The podcast is a proud affiliate partner of Bookshop, working to support local, independent bookstores. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:37.2

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0:39.6

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You and I have a friend in common.

0:45.5

Every stupid thing that a writer could do I've done.

0:48.3

I think it's really beautiful.

0:50.0

What I struggle, you know?

0:52.4

It was quite a moment with your head exploded, see what was really there. And now here's your host, Brad Listy. Just one person at just one time. Hey, everybody, how's it going? Welcome to the Other People podcast. I'm Brad Listy. I am here in Los Angeles, California. And it's a Sunday episode. Can you believe it? I'm doing a Sunday show.

1:12.1

I have Susan Henderson on the program today. She is an old palamine. Her new novel is called

1:17.9

The Flickr of Old Dreams. It is available from Harper Perennial. I have known Susan Henderson for more

1:24.2

than a decade. I was doing the math. I think we go back like 13 years,

1:28.9

12 or 13 years. And what's interesting or perhaps normal in a certain sense is that I had never

1:36.6

before been in a room with Sue, but I feel like I know her. I've known her forever. She runs a literary

1:42.3

site called Litpark.com. Many of you are probably

1:45.4

familiar with that. Like Sue and I go back to like MySpace days, old school. And it was just so great

1:53.2

to get a chance to meet her. She lives over on the other side of the country. And she was out here

1:57.8

in Los Angeles. She came over. We sat down, we talked, that is coming up momentarily.

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