576. T Kira Madden

Otherppl with Brad Listi

Brad Listi

Arts, Society & Culture, Books

4.8 • 554 Ratings

🗓️ 17 April 2019

⏱️ 82 minutes

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T Kira Madden is the guest. Her new memoir, Long Live the Tribe of Fatherless Girls, is available from Bloomsbury. It was the official March pick of The Nervous Breakdown Book Club. T Kira Madden is a lesbian APIA writer, photographer, and amateur magician living in New York City. She holds an MFA in creative writing from Sarah Lawrence College and an BA in design and literature from Parsons School of Design and Eugene Lang College. She is the founding Editor-in-chief of No Tokens, a magazine of literature and art, and is a 2017 NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellow in nonfiction literature from the New York Foundation for the Arts. She has received fellowships from The MacDowell Colony, Hedgebrook, Tin House, DISQUIET, Summer Literary Seminars, and Yaddo, where she was selected for the 2017 Linda Collins Endowed Residency Award. She facilitates writing workshops for homeless and formerly incarcerated individuals and currently teaches at Sarah Lawrence College. There is no period in her name. In today's monologue, I talk about buying a birthday gift for my wife. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:30.2	other people you and I have a friend in common every stupid thing that a writer could do I've done.
0:38.0	I think it's really beautiful.
0:39.6	What a struggle.
0:41.2	You know?
0:42.2	But your head exploded.
0:44.6	See what was really there.
0:46.3	And now here's your host, Brad Listy.
0:49.0	Just one person in just one time.
0:51.0	Hey, hey, hey, how's it going, everybody?
0:53.0	Welcome to the Other People podcast. I'm
0:54.7	Brad Listy, and I'm here in Los Angeles. I have T. Kira Madden on the program today. She published
1:03.0	a memoir earlier this year. It is called Long Live the Tribe of Fatherless Girls. It's available
1:09.0	now from Bloomsbury. It was the official March pick of
1:12.9	the Nervous Breakdown Book Club. Her interview was dropping a bit late just due to scheduling.
1:17.6	I wanted to catch her in person when she came through town on tour and this is just the way
1:22.0	the dates fell. So the good news is she was here. We had a great talk. She's been on a big tour.
1:29.0	You might have heard of her.
1:30.0	You might have heard of this book. It's been getting a lot of attention. It's one of the busier titles of the season. Long live the tribe of fatherless girls. T. Kiramatta, and you're going to hear that in just a second. if I sound, if you can hear it in my voice, if I sound a little like harried, it's been a busy day.
1:46.8	Today, Wednesday, April 6th, that in just a second. If I sound, if you can hear it in my voice, if I sound a little like
1:44.5	harried, it's been a busy day. Today, Wednesday, April 17th is my wife's birthday. So as I record
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