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Otherppl with Brad Listi

642. Danielle Trussoni

Otherppl with Brad Listi

Brad Listi

Arts, Society & Culture, Books

4.8 • 554 Ratings

🗓️ 6 May 2020

⏱️ 98 minutes

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Summary

Danielle Trussoni is the guest. Her new novel, The Ancestor, is available from William Morrow. Trussoni is the New York Times, USA Today, and Sunday Times Top Ten bestselling author of the supernatural thrillers Angelology and Angelopolis. She currently writes the Horror column for the New York Times Book Review and has recently served as a jurist for the Pulitzer Prize in Fiction. Trussoni holds an MFA in Fiction from the Iowa Writers' Workshop, where she won the Michener-Copernicus Society of America award. Her books have been translated into over thirty languages. She lives in the Hudson River Valley with her family and her pug Fly. *** 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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right now, all right? Okay. Hey folks. How are you? What's going on? I'm Brad Listy. Welcome to The Other People Show. I'm in Los Angeles, and I have Danielle Trussoni on the program today. She is the author of a novel called The Ancester, available now from William Morrow.

2:00.0

Daniel Trussoni is also the author of the best-selling supernatural thrillers Angelology and Angelopolis.

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