689. Rob Doyle

Otherppl with Brad Listi

Brad Listi

Arts, Society & Culture, Books

4.8 • 554 Ratings

🗓️ 20 January 2021

⏱️ 100 minutes

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Rob Doyle is the guest. His new book, Threshold, is available from Bloomsbury. Doyle's debut novel, Here Are the Young Men, was published in 2014 by Bloomsbury and the Lilliput Press. It was selected as one of Hot Press magazine’s ‘20 Greatest Irish Novels 1916-2016’, and has been made into a film starring Dean Charles Chapman and Anya Taylor Joy. This is the Ritual, a collection of short stories, was published in 2016 to widespread acclaim. Doyle is the editor of the anthology The Other Irish Tradition (Dalkey Archive Press), and In This Skull Hotel Where I Never Sleep (Broken Dimanche Press). He has written for the Guardian, TLS, Vice, Sunday Times, Dublin Review, Observer and many other publications, and throughout 2019 he wrote a weekly column on cult books for the Irish Times. He lives between Ireland and Berlin. *** 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
0:04.8	Numbers, the debut story collection from Deping Chen. Land of Big Numbers traces the journeys
0:09.8	of the diverse and legion Chinese people, their history, their government, and how all of that
0:15.1	has tumbled messily, violently, but still beautifully, into the present. Pilots Prize winner Jennifer Egan calls it, quote,
0:22.6	gripping and illuminating.
0:24.5	Land of Big Numbers offers intimate glimpses of the seductive power of state control.
0:29.8	The Faustian bargaining it requires of its citizens,
0:32.8	the landscapes and lives it forces them to discard in exchange for material prosperity.
0:39.0	At the heart of Duping Chen's remarkable debut lies a question all too relevant in 21st century America.
0:46.4	What is freedom?
0:48.2	Land of Big Numbers, the debut story collection by Deping Chen,ailable now from Mariner Books.
1:07.0	Hey everybody.
1:08.1	How's it going?
1:08.7	Welcome to The Other People Show.
1:10.1	I'm Brad Listy. It's good to be with you. I am in Los Angeles. And I have Rob Doyle on the program today. He's got a book out on Bloomsbury. It is called Threshold. And it's one of these books that's kind of hard to classify. It's somewhere between a novel, an essay collection,
1:29.0	a travelogue, a personal confession. I love these kinds of books, and I really enjoyed
1:35.9	threshold. I read it over the holidays, I want to say. It was one of these situations where,
1:42.7	you know, I get a lot of books sent to me and I have a big pile sitting there.
1:47.4	And this happens sometimes.
1:49.7	I've talked about this before.
1:50.9	I will occasionally go through the pile.
1:53.4	I'll pick up books.
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