All right. All right, here we go. Welcome to the Other People show. My name's Brad Listy. That's my new

intro. I made another one. Last week I had another bird sound. Basically what I decided was that the theme

song was too long. I just want to get to the show. I don't think anybody needs to hear the same

song every week. So I made a decision.

And I just made whatever that was.

And that's going to be the new intro for the time being.

I'm feeling restless in 2021. My guest today is Michael Bible.

His new novel is called The Ancient Hours.

It's available from Melville House.

It is a fable of the American South set in the summer of the year 2000.

It's about a tragedy.

It's about a crime.

It's about tragic lives.

It's about disaffected teenagers in a small southern town.

It's a beautiful book.

I just read it recently.

It is told in a kaleidoscopic fashion, multiple timelines, multiple voices. It is a deft examination of a tragedy, an all-to-American tragedy. Victims, witnesses, perpetrators, the condemned. Everybody featured in the ancient hours by Michael Bible.

That conversation is coming up in just a second.

Today's episode is brought to you by DeZank Books, publisher of As You Were, the new memoir

by David Trombly.

In a starred review, Kirkus Coles, As You Were, the new memoir by David Tromblay. In a starred review, Kirkus Coles, as you were, quote, an incandescent addition to both Native American letters and the literature of the Iraq and Afghan

wars, end quote. As You Were is a hypnotic, brutal, and unstoppable coming of age tale. It delves deeply

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