546. Laura van den Berg

Otherppl with Brad Listi

Brad Listi

Arts, Society & Culture, Books

4.8 • 554 Ratings

🗓️ 10 October 2018

⏱️ 81 minutes

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Laura van den Berg is the author of the novel THE THIRD HOTEL (Farrar, Straus, & Giroux). Her other books include two collections of stories, The Isle of Youth (FSG, 2013) and What the World Will Look Like When All the Water Leaves Us (Dzanc Books, 2009), and the novel Find Me (FSG, 2015). Laura van den Berg is a Briggs-Copeland Lecturer in Fiction at Harvard University and also teaches in the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College. She lives in Cambridge, MA. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:28.9	You are not alone. You have found other people. You and I have a present common.
0:37.2	Every stupid thing that a writer could do I've done. I think it's really beautiful. What a struggle, you know? It was incredible. You know, it's like your head exploded, seeing what was really there. And now here's your host, Brad Listy. Just one person at just one time. Hello, everybody. Hi, how's it going?
0:54.2	This is the Other People podcast. I'm Brad Listy. I'm in Los Angeles. It's nice to be with you. It's nice to have Laura Vandenberg back on this program. She is celebrating the publication of a new novel called The Third Hotel. It's available now from Farrar Strauss and Giroux. I am not alone in believing that she's
1:12.2	one of the best fiction writers alive right now. Like no hyperbole. I really believe that. And I'm not
1:20.4	the only one. There are a lot of us out there that think that she has like a real gift and is really doing the work at a high level. So it's really great to get
1:30.5	to get the chance to talk with her about the new book, about her life, her writing life,
1:37.3	and about the state of things. So that conversation with Laura Vandenberg is coming up.
1:42.5	Speaking of the state of things, you know,
1:45.9	I'm recording this once again on a Saturday. That seems to be the way that I'm able to do this now
1:50.3	in light of, you know, job obligations and everything else. I tend to be recording on Saturday. So
1:55.8	taking into account that today is Saturday, October the 6th, 2018, and everything that that entails
2:02.8	in terms of what's going on in the United States of America. So if you hear like fatigue in my voice
2:07.2	or like a beleaguered tone, I hope you'll take into account historical context. I'm flagging
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