688. Gil Adamson

Otherppl with Brad Listi

Brad Listi

Arts, Society & Culture, Books

4.8 • 554 Ratings

🗓️ 13 January 2021

⏱️ 85 minutes

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Summary

Gil Adamson is the guest. Her new novel, The Ridgerunner, will be published in the United States by House of Anansi Press on February 2, 2021. Adamson is the critically acclaimed author of The Outlander, which won the Dashiell Hammett Prize for Literary Excellence in Crime Writing, the Amazon.ca First Novel Award, the ReLit Award, and the Drummer General’s Award. It was a finalist for the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize, CBC Canada Reads, and the Prix Femina in France; longlisted for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award; and chosen as a Globe and Mail and Washington Post Top 100 Book. She is also the author of a collection of linked stories, Help Me, Jacques Cousteau, and two poetry collections, Primitive and Ashland. She lives in Toronto. *** 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 folks, today's episode is brought to you by Mariner Books, publisher of Land of Big Numbers,
0:05.3	the debut story collection from Deping Chen. Land of Big Numbers traces the journeys of the diverse
0:10.5	and legion Chinese people, their history, their government, and how all of that has tumbled
0:15.7	messily, violently, but still beautifully, into the present. Pellitzer Prize winner Prize winner Jennifer Egan calls it, quote,
0:22.6	gripping and illuminating.
0:24.5	Land of Big Numbers offers intimate glimpses
0:26.6	of the seductive power of state control.
0:29.7	The Faustian bargaining it requires of its citizens,
0:32.7	the landscapes and lives it forces them to discard
0:35.9	in exchange for material prosperity.
0:38.3	At the heart of Deping Chen's remarkable debut lies a question all too relevant in 21st century America.
0:46.3	What is freedom?
0:48.2	Land of Big Numbers, the debut story collection by Deping Chen,ailable now from Mariner Books.
1:08.6	Hey, everybody. Welcome to the Other People Show. My name's Brad Listia. I'm in Los Angeles. It's nice to be with you. Thank you for listening. Wherever you happen to be. I have on the program today, Jill Adamson. She is a Canadian author. And her latest novel, The Ridge Runner, will be available in the United States of America from House of Anansi Press on February 2nd.
1:33.7	It is already available up in Canada.
1:38.7	The Ridge Runner is part literary Western, part historical mystery.
1:43.9	It is the much anticipated follow-up to
1:47.2	Adamson's critically acclaimed debut novel, The Outlander, published, I believe, back in 2007.
1:54.3	The Outlander won or was nominated for a whole slew of awards, including Amazon's first novel
2:00.6	award and the DeShill Hammett Prize for Literary Excellence in Crime Writing.
2:06.7	The Ridge Runner was a decade in the making, and it was worth the wait.
2:14.4	The novel was published first, as I said, up in Canada this past year, where it won the
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