665. Mesha Maren

Otherppl with Brad Listi

Brad Listi

Arts, Society & Culture, Books

4.8 • 554 Ratings

🗓️ 12 August 2020

⏱️ 93 minutes

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Mesha Maren is the guest. Her debut novel, Sugar Run, is available from Algonquin Books. Maren's short stories and essays can be read in Tin House, The Oxford American, The Guardian, Crazyhorse, Triquarterly, The Southern Review, Ecotone, Sou’wester, Hobart, Forty Stories: New Writing from Harper Perennial, and elsewhere. She was the recipient of the 2015 Thomas Wolfe Fiction Prize, a 2014 Elizabeth George Foundation grant, an Appalachian Writing Fellowship from Lincoln Memorial University, and fellowships from the MacDowell Colony and the Ucross Foundation. She was the 2018-2019 Kenan Visiting Writer at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She is an Assistant Professor of the Practice of Creative Writing at Duke University and also serves as a National Endowment of the Arts Writing Fellow at the federal prison camp in Alderson, West Virginia. *** 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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0:59.0	Okay. Okay, everybody, how you doing out there? Welcome to the Other People program.
1:00.6	My name is Brad Listy, and it is good to be with you.
1:03.5	I hope you're doing okay out there.
1:05.0	I'm in Los Angeles, and my guest today is Misha Marin.
1:10.1	Her debut novel is called Sugar Run.
1:12.6	It is available from Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill.
1:16.5	I had a great time talking with Misha, meeting her.
1:18.6	She's a very exciting young writer, award-winning.
1:22.6	And Sugar Run is an excellent novel.
1:24.6	So you're going to hear from Misha Marin in conversation in just a
1:28.2	moment. I do want to take a second here at the top of the show to remind you about the where I
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