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Otherppl with Brad Listi

624. Nicolette Polek

Otherppl with Brad Listi

Brad Listi

Arts, Society & Culture, Books

4.8554 Ratings

🗓️ 12 February 2020

⏱️ 91 minutes

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Summary

Nicolette Polek is the guest. Her new story collection, Imaginary Museums, is available from Soft Skull Press. Polek is a writer from Cleveland, Ohio and is a recipient of the 2019 Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers’ Award. *** 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

Transcript

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0:00.0

The Premier League is exciting.

0:04.0

It's exhilarating.

0:07.0

And sometimes it's...

0:11.0

So when you need something to help you ride the highest and loads of all that action,

0:17.0

grab a coat to keep you in the game.

0:20.0

Time to refresh.

0:21.8

Time for a Coke.

0:23.8

Coca-Cola, official partner of the Premier League.

0:29.7

Hey, everybody.

0:30.7

Today's episode is brought to you by the feminist press, publisher of a novel called Fiebre Trapeical by Juliana Delgado Lopera.

0:38.7

It's a coming-of-age story.

0:40.2

It's a coming-out story.

0:41.9

It is set in immigrant Miami.

0:44.0

NBC News calls Delgado Lopera, quote,

0:46.3

a merciless satirist in control of a pitch-perfect voice.

0:52.1

Fierbre Trapical, the new novel by Juliana Delgado Lopera, available right now from

0:59.6

the feminist press.

1:12.6

Hello.

1:20.2

Hey, everybody. How you doing? What's going on? I'm Brad Listy. I'm in Los Angeles. This is the Other People podcast. It's good to be with you.

1:29.0

And I'm very happy to have Nicolette Pollack on the show today. She has a story collection out called Imaginary Museums. It's available from Soft Skull Press.

1:32.4

And she was here not too long ago.

1:34.8

We had a conversation.

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