588. Erin Hosier

Otherppl with Brad Listi

Brad Listi

Arts, Society & Culture, Books

4.8 • 554 Ratings

🗓️ 10 July 2019

⏱️ 110 minutes

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Erin Hosieris the guest. Her new memoir, Don't Let Me Down, is available from Atria Books. Hosier is also the coauthor of Hit So Hard by Patty Schemel (Da Capo, 2017). She has been a literary agent since 2001 (currently with Dunow Carlson & Lerner), and was an original co-host of the Literary Death Match. As an agent, she primarily works with authors of nonfiction and has a special interest in popular culture, music biography, humor, women's history (and untold stories of all kinds). She lives in Brooklyn. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey, everybody. Today's episode is brought to you by DeZank Books, publisher of the story collection,
0:05.7	A Girl Goes Into the Forest by Peg Alford Purcell. It is the official July pick of the Nervous Breakdown Book Club.
0:13.3	Purcell's sophomore collection centers on mothers, daughters, and the myth of the American girl.
0:18.8	Ramona Osabel, author of Awayland, calls it, quote, as beautiful and fine as a the American girl, Ramona Osabel, author of A Wayland,
0:21.6	calls it, quote,
0:22.4	as beautiful and fine as a string of pearls
0:24.6	and as complex as a thousand-piece puzzle.
0:28.8	And Kirkus reviews raves, quote,
0:30.6	Purcell is a master of the atmospheric moment.
0:34.9	A girl goes into the forest,
0:36.3	the new story collection by Peg
0:37.9	Alford Purcell, on sale July 16th from DeZank Books.
0:46.1	You are not alone. You have found other people.
0:52.3	You and I have a first time.
1:11.2	Every stupid thing that a writer could do I've done. I think it's really beautiful. Let's get ready to struggle, you know? It was quite a little. It's like your head exploded thing. What was really there. And now here's your host, Brad Listy. Just one person at just one time. Hello, everybody.
1:11.8	How's it going?
1:13.3	Welcome to the Other People podcast.
1:17.8	I'm Brad Listy, and I am here in Los Angeles, California.
1:21.3	I'm recording this on July 4th, just so you know.
1:23.5	I'm standing here in my garage on July 4th. There was just an earthquake.
1:25.3	I believe it registered 6.4 on the Richter scale. I got to be
1:28.9	really honest. Just this morning, earlier this morning, I went to the gym, and I was sitting there,
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