664. Sabrina Orah Mark

Otherppl with Brad Listi

Brad Listi

Arts, Society & Culture, Books

4.8 • 554 Ratings

🗓️ 9 August 2020

⏱️ 104 minutes

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Sabrina Orah Mark is the guest. Her story collection, Wild Milk, is available from The Dorothy Project. Sabrina grew up in Brooklyn, New York. She earned a BA from Barnard College, Columbia University, an MFA from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, and a PhD in English from the University of Georgia. She is the author of the book-length poetry collections The Babies (2004), winner of the Saturnalia Book Prize chosen by Jane Miller, and Tsim Tsum (2009), as well as the chapbook Walter B.’s Extraordinary Cousin Arrives for a Visit & Other Tales from Woodland Editions. Her poetry and stories most recently appear in American Short Fiction, The Bennington Review, Tin House (Open Bar), The Collagist, jubilat, The Believer, and have been anthologized widely. She lives in Athens Georgia with her husband, Reginald McKnight, and their two sons. For The Paris Review she writes a monthly column on fairytales and motherhood entitled HAPPILY. *** 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 everybody. Today's episode is brought to you by Counterpoint, publishers of The Disaster Tourist by Yun Koan.
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0:11.0	introduces a fresh new voice that engages with the global dialogue around climate activism, dark tourism, and the Me Too movement.
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0:40.3	the island of Moy and pose as a tourist to assess its profitability. When she uncovers a plan to
0:46.5	fabricate an extravagant catastrophe, she must choose, prioritize the callous company to whom she has
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1:27.8	Hey folks. How you doing'm going to the Other People Show.
1:33.7	I'm Brad Listy. I'm in Los Angeles.
1:34.8	It's good to be with you.
1:35.9	Thank you for listening.
1:40.3	I have Sabrina Ora Mark on the program today.
1:43.5	She has a story collection out from Dorothy.
1:48.8	It is called Wild Milk. And it is one of these collections that got incredibly effusive rave reviews. And I was supposed to have Sabrina on this
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