634. Jenn Shapland

Otherppl with Brad Listi

Brad Listi

Arts, Society & Culture, Books

4.8 • 554 Ratings

🗓️ 1 April 2020

⏱️ 78 minutes

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Summary

Jenn Shapland is the guest. Her debut, My Autobiography of Carson McCullers, is a genre-bending work of nonfiction. It is available from Tin House Books. Shapland's nonfiction has been published in O, the Oprah Magazine, The Paris Review daily, Tin House, Outside online, Lit Hub, and elsewhere. Her essay "Finders, Keepers" won a 2017 Pushcart Prize, and she was awarded the 2019 Rabkin Foundation Award for art journalism. She has a PhD in English from the University of Texas at Austin and lives in New Mexico. *** 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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0:33.8	All right?
0:34.4	All right.
0:34.7	All right.
0:36.0	We're not going to walk for March. And we respond by saying we said that we. all right all right hey there hey there hey everybody
0:47.6	how you doing welcome to the other people show i'm brad listy here in los angeles how's it's
0:52.5	how's it going happy april fool's Day. It's April 1st,
0:55.3	2020. Did I say I'm in Los Angeles? I'm in Los Angeles. I have Jen
1:02.1	Chaplin on the program. She has a new book out from Tin House called My Autobiography of Carson
1:07.8	McCullors.
1:13.6	Just a great time talking with her. She was kind enough to, you know, stop over and do the show when she was in town on
1:19.6	book tour prior to shelter in place.
1:22.6	This was recorded several weeks ago.
1:24.6	So if you hear, you know, a certain sunniness in our voices or
1:29.3	if we seem unbothered or something, it's just because it was recorded prior to, you know,
1:34.5	the pandemic becoming a thing in American life and in the wider world and so on.
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