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Hey, you guys, how you doing? Welcome to The Other People Show. I'm Brad Listy. I'm in Los Angeles. It's nice to be with you. Happy Thanksgiving or almost Thanksgiving, depending on when you're listening to this. I hope you're being safe. I hope you're taking care of yourselves and taking care of others with regard to COVID and so on and so forth. My guest today is Darien G. She has two books out this year. One of them

is called Other Small Histories. It's a poetry collection available from the Poetry Society of America.

It was the winner of the Poetry Society's Chapbook Fellowship Award.

The other book is called Allegiance.

It's a collection of micro essays available from Legacy Isle Publishing.

Darian G. is the author of five novels published by Penguin Random House.

She's been translated into 11 languages.

She has worked in literary fiction, poetry, genre fiction.

She's had a really varied career.

And I had an excellent conversation with her.

She was at home on the Big Island of Hawaii.

So let's get to it.

Here's my talk with Darian G.

And her books again are called Other Small Histories,

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