629. April Dávila

Otherppl with Brad Listi

Brad Listi

Arts, Society & Culture, Books

4.8 • 554 Ratings

🗓️ 8 March 2020

⏱️ 97 minutes

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Summary

April Dávila is the guest. Her debut novel, 142 Ostriches, is available from Kensington Books. Dávila received her undergraduate degree from Scripps College before going on to study writing at USC. She was a resident of the Dorland Mountain Arts Colony in 2017 and attended the Squaw Valley Community of Writers in 2018. In 2019 her short story “Ultra” was nominated for a Pushcart Prize. A fourth-generation Californian, she lives in La Cañada Flintridge with her husband and two children. She is a practicing Buddhist, half-hearted gardener, and occasional runner. 142 Ostriches is her first novel. *** 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, guys. Today's episode is brought to you by Gray Wolf Press, publisher of Barn 8, the new novel by Deb Olin Unferth.
0:09.5	Barn 8 is Vegan's Ocean 11. It stars a million chickens. It's about a group of washed-up radicals trying to find redemption by attempting the most ambitious heist in animal liberation history.
0:20.9	This is a wry and brilliant novel, painstakingly researched and daringly imaginative.
0:25.8	It covers chicken intelligence, bird evolution, factory farm conditions, and so much more.
0:31.1	Warning, it might make you a vegan.
0:33.5	Barn 8, the new novel by Deb Olin Unferth, available now from Grey Wolf Press.
0:53.2	Hey, what's wrong's going on everybody?
0:54.6	How are you?
0:55.1	I'm Brad Listy.
0:56.4	This is the other people show.
0:58.3	It's nice to be with you.
0:59.9	I'm in Los Angeles.
1:02.6	My guest today is April Davila.
1:07.1	She has a novel out on Kensington Press called 142 ostriches.
1:14.6	142 ostriches.
1:19.4	There's something like hypnotizing about saying that.
1:24.3	142 ostriches.
1:29.3	So, great time meeting her. Get ready for that conversation. I do have some mail I want to get through.
1:35.8	A lot of people have been writing to me. A listener named Maria writes,
1:39.9	Hey, Brad, I was listening to episode 627, episode 627 the other day.
1:46.7	And I wanted to thank you for the way you talked about the younger generation and the student loan issues.
1:52.0	I am basically the person you described with around the same amount of debt that you mentioned.
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