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Otherppl with Brad Listi

619. Steffie Nelson, Heather John Fogarty, & Sarah Tomlinson

Otherppl with Brad Listi

Brad Listi

Arts, Society & Culture, Books

4.8 • 554 Ratings

🗓️ 8 January 2020

⏱️ 110 minutes

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Summary

Steffie Nelson, Heather John Fogarty, and Sarah Tomlinson are the guests. All are contributors to a new essay anthology called Slouching Towards Los Angeles: Living and Writing by Joan Didion's Light. The collection is edited by Steffie Nelson and is available from Rare Bird Books. It is the official January pick of The Nervous Breakdown Book Club. In The White Album, Joan Didion famously wrote that “a place belongs forever to whoever claims it hardest, remembers it most obsessively…loves it so radically that he remakes it in his image.” Cruising in her Daytona yellow Corvette Stingray, taking it all in behind dark glasses, Joan Didion claimed California for all time. Slouching Towards Los Angeles is a multi-faceted portrait of the literary icon who, in turn, belongs to us. This collection of original essays covers the turf that made Didion a sensation—Hollywood and Patty Hearst; Malibu, Manson and the Mojave; the Summer of Love and the Central Park Five—while bringing together some of the finest voices of today’s Los Angeles and beyond. Slouching Towards Los Angeles is a love letter and thank you note; personal memoir and social commentary; cultural history and literary critique. Fans of Didion, lovers of California, and fellow writers alike will all find something to dig into, in this rich exploration of the inner and outer landscapes Joan Didion traveled, shaping our own journeys in the process. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:29.9

Hey, you guys, the Other People podcast is offered freely. This is a free show. There's no paywall.

0:35.1

There's none of that. It's all available to you for free more than 600

0:38.3

episodes. It's all free. Your support makes a difference. If you want to support the show, you can do that at

0:44.5

Patreon.com slash other PPL pod. Thank you.

0:48.5

I just very much. I like that. I like that for you. The best thing about it is that is a bit of important.

0:59.5

Hello.

1:00.5

Hey, everybody.

1:01.8

How you doing?

1:02.4

Welcome to the Other People podcast.

1:04.4

Happy New Year, the first official episode of the year 2020.

1:08.4

I apologize for being a bit late in my delivery. I'm usually pretty

1:13.7

punctual in delivering a new episode every Wednesday, but I'm coming out of back-to-back weeks

1:18.9

of holiday travel, you know, a general state of lethargy, and I just am getting my act together

1:24.6

as we start the year. I will say, too, that there might be some further discombobulation next week as I get

1:32.5

ramped up and I get people in here to talk to me.

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