693. Candace Jane Opper

Otherppl with Brad Listi

Brad Listi

Arts, Society & Culture, Books

4.8 • 554 Ratings

🗓️ 17 February 2021

⏱️ 108 minutes

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Candace Jane Opper is the author of the debut memoir Certain and Impossible Events. It was selected by Cheryl Strayed as the winner of the Kore Press Memoir Award. Opper is a writer, a mother, and an occasional visual artist. She grew up in the woods of Southern Connecticut. Her essays have appeared or are forthcoming in Longreads, Guernica, Creative Nonfiction, LitHub, Narratively, Brevity, and Vestoj, among others. She is a Creative Nonfiction Foundation Fellowship recipient and a member on the advisory council for Write Pittsburgh, a program collective that empowers writers to amplify their voices and strengthen their communities. Certain and Impossible Events is her first book. Today's monologue: listener mail *** 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, where is everybody?
0:02.0	Okay, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, how you doing?
0:07.9	Welcome to The Other People Show.
0:08.9	I'm Brad Listy.
0:09.7	It's good to be with you.
0:10.4	I'm in Los Angeles, California.
0:13.6	And I have Candice Jane Opper on the program today.
0:17.3	She has a new memoir out from Corre Press.
0:20.6	It is excellent, and it is called certain and impossible events.
0:27.8	This book came to my attention.
0:30.7	I think it was somebody from Coray Press who reached out to me, but it won the Coray Press
0:35.1	Memoir Award, which was judged by none other than Cheryl
0:40.2	Strait. Here's what Cheryl Strait has to say about certain and impossible events. Quote,
0:46.0	certain and impossible events is unlike anything I've ever read. It is a powerfully original
0:51.1	exploration of the many meanings of suicide and a beautifully written
0:55.1	memoir of a particular kind of loss. I was impressed with the intellectual curiosity of this book
1:01.6	and also with its emotional rigor. It is an intimate and ultimately poignant portrait of one
1:07.4	woman coming to grips with an experience that inexplicably shaped her.
1:11.9	Perhaps most of all I loved the quality of the prose. I was in this talented writer's
1:16.9	thrall from page one. So I can't say it much better than that. That's exactly how I felt about
1:26.5	certain and impossible events. I had a great
1:28.4	conversation with Candice Jane Opper, and that is coming up in just a bit. Next week on the
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