611. Mimi Lok

Otherppl with Brad Listi

Brad Listi

Arts, Society & Culture, Books

4.8 • 554 Ratings

🗓️ 6 November 2019

⏱️ 81 minutes

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Summary

Mimi Lok is the guest. Her debut story collection, Last of Her Name, is available from Kaya Press. Lok is the recipient of a Smithsonian Ingenuity Award and an Ylvisaker Award for Fiction, and was a finalist for the Susan Atefat Arts and Letters Prize for nonfiction. Her work can be found in McSweeney’s, Electric Literature, LitHub, Nimrod, Lucky Peach, Hyphen, the South China Morning Post, and elsewhere. She is currently working on a novel. Lok is also the executive director and editor of Voice of Witness, an award-winning human rights/oral history nonprofit she cofounded that amplifies marginalized voices through a book series and a national education program. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:30.0	Hey, you guys, this episode of The Other People podcast is brought to you by Rare Bird Books,
0:34.9	publisher of the novel Dead Girls by award-winning author Abigail Tartalin.
0:39.9	Emily St. John Mandel calls Abigail Tartan, quote, a fearless writer, end quote.
0:45.0	Dead Girls reads like a true crime book. Do you like true crime? If you like true crime, you're going to like dead girls.
0:50.5	Go get it now, wherever good books are sold. Dead Girls by Abigail Tartolin,
0:55.9	available now from Rare Bird Books. Hello? Hello. Hello. How's it going out there? Are you doing okay? This is the Other People podcast. My name is Brad Listy, and I'm in Los Angeles. I have a wonderful episode to share with you today. Mimi Locke is my guest. She has a
1:30.8	debut story collection. It is a novella and stories that is called Last of Her Name. And it is
1:38.0	available from Kaya Press. Had a wonderful time with Mimi Locke.
1:46.5	She,
1:47.7	uh,
1:48.4	is not only an author.
1:50.1	She is also,
1:52.0	uh,
1:52.5	the executive director and editor of voice of witness,
1:56.4	a human rights and oral history nonprofit that she co-founded with Dave Eggers.
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