628. Emily Nemens

Otherppl with Brad Listi

Brad Listi

Arts, Society & Culture, Books

4.8 • 554 Ratings

🗓️ 4 March 2020

⏱️ 97 minutes

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Emily Nemens is the guest. Her debut novel, The Cactus League, is available from Farrar, Straus, & Giroux. In 2018, Nemens became the seventh editor of The Paris Review, the nation’s preeminent literary quarterly. Since her arrival, the magazine has seen record-high circulation, published two anthologies, produced a second season of its acclaimed podcast, and won the 2020 National Magazine Award for Fiction. Previously, she coedited The Southern Review, a storied literary quarterly published at Louisiana State University. Stories published during her tenure at The Southern Review were selected for the Pushcart Prize anthology, Best American Short Stories, the O. Henry Prize anthology, and the inaugural edition of PEN America Best Debut Fiction. Nemens grew up in Seattle and received her bachelor’s degree from Brown University, where she studied art history and studio art. She completed an MFA degree in fiction at Louisiana State University. As an illustrator, she’s collaborated with Harvey Pekar, published her work in The New Yorker, and her watercolor portraits of every woman in congress were featured across the web and on national TV. Her short stories have appeared in Blackbird (Tarumoto Prize winner), Esquire, n+1, The Iowa Review, Hobart, and The Gettysburg Review. She lives in New York and remains a Mariners fan. *** 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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1:13.3	Hello, how you doing out there? What's going on? I'm Brad Listy. This is the Other People podcast, and I'm in Los Angeles. Thanks for listening. I have Emily Nemens on the program today. Her debut novel, The Cactus League, is available now from Farrar, Strauss, and Giroux. Emily Nemens is also the editor of the Paris Review, the literary quarterly founded in 1953, I believe, by George Plimpton, Harold Humes,
1:22.3	and Peter Matheson. She is the seventh editor of the Paris Review, and I was delighted to meet her and to talk to her about her work as a writer, about her novel, The Cactus League, about baseball, which is a central concern of her novel and of her life, I guess, to a certain degree.
1:42.0	You know, all of the above. Just a nice time meeting Emily Nemons, and you're going to hear that conversation right now.
1:50.1	I'm just going to get to it.
1:51.5	Is that okay?
1:52.1	Let's just get to Emily Nemons.
1:54.4	Once again, her new novel is called, oh, wait, I forgot.
1:59.4	I forgot.
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