653. Brian Allen Carr

Otherppl with Brad Listi

Brad Listi

Arts, Society & Culture, Books

4.8 • 554 Ratings

🗓️ 1 July 2020

⏱️ 92 minutes

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Brian Allen Carr is the guest. His new novel, Opioid, Indiana, is available from Soho Press. This is Carr's second time on the program. He first appeared in Episode 135 on December 30, 2012. Carr is the author of Sip (Soho Press) and other novellas and story collections, and he has been published in McSweeney’s, Hobart, and The Rumpus. He was the inaugural winner of the Texas Observer short story prize as judged by Larry McMurtry, and the recipient of a Wonderland Book Award. He splits his time between Texas and Indiana, where he writes about engineers and inventors at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology. *** 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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1:11.2	All right.
1:12.0	Okay.
1:25.1	Hey, everybody.
1:26.1	How you doing?
1:26.7	Welcome to The Other People Show. My name is Brad Listy. I'm in Los Angeles. How are you doing out there? I hope you're okay. I have Brian Allen Carr on the program today. He's got a novel out on Soho Press. It is called Opioid Indiana. Brian Allen Carr, Opioid Indiana. This is his second time on the program.
1:45.0	I was looking through the archives,
1:46.6	and I believe the last time we spoke was about seven and a half years ago,
1:50.2	something like that.
1:51.1	So a lot has happened for both of us.
1:54.8	And it was good to catch up with him.
1:56.3	That's coming up in just a moment.
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2:00.0	publisher of the novel
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