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Otherppl with Brad Listi

623. Amina Cain

Otherppl with Brad Listi

Brad Listi

Arts, Society & Culture, Books

4.8554 Ratings

🗓️ 5 February 2020

⏱️ 93 minutes

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Summary

Amina Cain is the guest. Her new novel, Indelicacy, is available from Farrar, Straus, & Giroux. This is Amina's second time on the program. She first appeared in Episode 390 on November 25, 2015. She is also the author of the short story collection Creature, out with Dorothy, a publishing project, and her writing has appeared in Granta, n+1, The Paris Review Daily, BOMB, Full Stop, Vice, the Believer Logger, and elsewhere. She lives in Los Angeles and is a literature contributing editor at BOMB.  Today’s episode is sponsored by BetterHelp. Go to Betterhelp.com/Otherppl to get 10% off your first month with discount code OTHERPPL. *** Otherppl with Brad Listi is a weekly literary podcast featuring in-depth interviews with today's leading writers. Launched in 2011. Books. Literature. Writing. Publishing. Authors. Screenwriters. Life. Death. Etc. Support the show on Patreon Merch www.otherppl.com @otherppl Instagram  Email the show: letters [at] otherppl [dot] com The podcast is a proud affiliate partner of Bookshop, working to support local, independent bookstores. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hey, you guys, the Other People podcast is offered freely all episodes of this show.

0:06.3

All of them, more than 600 and counting, are all available for free.

0:10.8

It's all free.

0:13.5

It's all offered to you for free.

0:15.6

It's a listener-supported show.

0:16.9

If you want to support the podcast, please do that.

0:20.3

You can do that at patreon.com

0:22.5

slash other ppl pod. That's patreon.com slash other ppll pod. Okay, thanks.

0:32.0

And that makes is what's a place.

0:33.6

That's a whole.

0:52.3

Rack and a just look on a duck to a way. Hello. Hey, everybody. This is Braddusty. This is the other people. And I hope that wherever you are, it's hospitable.

0:59.5

I hope you're in a hospitable environment as you listen to this.

1:06.1

Twiggy.

1:10.4

That's my dog Twiggy.

1:15.6

What can I tell you?

1:17.3

Amina Kane is back on the program.

1:20.6

Very excited about Amina's new novel.

1:23.6

It is called Indelicacy, and it is available from FSG,

1:27.3

Farr, Strauss, and Giroux. I talked to her a few years ago, and we hit it off. She came back over and sat down with me. She is celebrating the publication of this new book. I read it. I enjoyed it. I enjoy talking to her. I'm excited to share that conversation with you. Get ready for it.

1:45.7

It's coming up in just a moment. Hey, I don't normally, well, actually I do sometimes talk about

1:51.0

politics, but the Iowa caucuses happened, I think, this week. Yeah, I'm just going to say this. Let's all take a deep breath.

2:00.5

And let's all focus on trying to beat Donald Trump.

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