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Otherppl with Brad Listi

567. Sarah McColl

Otherppl with Brad Listi

Brad Listi

Arts, Society & Culture, Books

4.8554 Ratings

🗓️ 27 February 2019

⏱️ 107 minutes

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Summary

Sarah McColl is the guest. Her debut memoir, Joy Enough, is available now from Liveright Publishing. McColl's essays have appeared in Paris Review, McSweeney's, StoryQuarterly, and elsewhere. She has been the recipient of fellowships from the MacDowell Colony, where she was named the 2017 Mary Carswell Fellow, the Millay Colony for the Arts, Ucross Foundation, Vermont Studio Center, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and Wrangell Mountains Center. Before receiving her MFA at Sarah Lawrence College, she was the founding editor in chief of Yahoo Food. Her food writing has been featured in print and online for Bon Appétit, House Beautiful, The Guardian, Modern Farmer, Extra Crispy and others. She teaches creative writing and is based in Los Angeles, California. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:29.3

Hey, everybody.

0:32.1

The Other People podcast is entirely free.

0:33.9

It is offered freely.

0:41.1

Nearly 600 episodes, all available free of charge. This is a listener-supported show. If you like the podcast and you would like to support it, you can do so at patreon.com slash other

0:47.1

ppl pod. That's patreon.com slash other ppl pod. Patreon.com slash other ppl pod patrion.com slash other ppl pod you are not alone you have found other people

1:03.9

you and i have a friend in promise every stupid thing that a writer could do i've done. I think it's really beautiful. Big, stated what I struggle, you know? It's incredible. Hello. Hello. Hello. And now here's your host, Brad Listing. Hello. Just one person and just one time. How's it going, everybody? Welcome to the Other People podcast. I'm Brad Listy. I am in Los Angeles. It's nice to be with you.

1:29.0

It is nice to have Sarah McCall on the program today. She has a memoir out right now on Live Right Press.

1:37.0

It is called Joy Enough. Joy enough. Joy enough. She was great. She came over not too long ago and she was ready to talk she was ready

1:48.9

to communicate we had it out right here in this garage and i recorded it and by had it out i don't mean

1:54.4

to say that we were arguing or that it was contentious in any way it was great it was delightful

1:59.1

it was friendly and uh we just we talked about great. It was delightful. It was friendly.

2:05.5

And we just, we talked about stuff. We got into it. You're going to hear this in just a moment.

2:13.8

She was a great guest. So, I also want to add that her book is, uh, wonderful. It's a grief memoir.

2:18.4

If I'm, if I'm, if I'm, if I may use the word griefy.

2:23.9

Not an easy thing to write about, and she manages to pull it off.

2:40.0

Joy enough, once again, is the title Sarah McCall, the author, and my guest today on the program. So I'm watching my dog right now.

2:42.6

She's supposed to be, like, I'm trying to, like, integrate her into this so that we can be

2:46.7

companions so that she can feel like she's included in as many activities as possible.

2:52.5

But she makes noise.

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