695. Melissa Broder

Otherppl with Brad Listi

Brad Listi

Arts, Society & Culture, Books

4.8 • 554 Ratings

🗓️ 3 March 2021

⏱️ 118 minutes

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Summary

Melissa Broder is the guest. Her new novel, Milk Fed, is available from Scribner. This is Melissa's fourth time on the podcast. She first appeared in Episode 58 on April 4, 2012. Her second appearance was in Episode 404 on March 13, 2016. Her third appearance came in Episode 519, on May 9, 2018. Broder's other books include the novel The Pisces, the essay collection So Sad Today, and five poetry collections, including Superdoom: Selected Poems (Summer 2021) and Last Sext. Broder has written for The New York Times, Elle.com, VICE, Vogue Italia, and New York Magazine‘s The Cut. Her poems have appeared in Poetry, The Iowa Review, Guernica, Fence, et al. She is the winner of a Pushcart Prize for poetry. She lives in Los Angeles. *** 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 this?
0:03.1	All right.
0:04.8	Hey, how you doing?
0:06.0	Welcome to The Other People Show.
0:07.3	I'm Brad Listy.
0:08.1	It's good to be with you.
0:09.1	I hope you're okay.
0:10.1	I'm in Los Angeles, and I have for you an excellent program.
0:14.5	Melissa Broder is my guest.
0:16.1	Her new novel, Milk Fed, is out there now from Scribner.
0:20.2	You're going to hear a conversation between me and Melissa Broder in just a moment.
0:26.0	Today's episode is brought to you by Amazon Crossing, publisher of the novel The Ardent Swarm by Yaman
0:33.9	Manai.
0:35.2	It is the winner of multiple literary awards in France as well as a Penheim Translation Fund grant.
0:41.3	It is critically acclaimed all over the world.
0:45.3	The Arden Swarm is a brilliantly accessible modern-day parable, written by a Tunisian-born, Parisian resident.
0:53.0	Yaman Manai uses a masterful blend of humor and drama to reveal what
0:56.2	happens in a country shaken by revolutionary change after the world stops watching. The ardent swarm
1:03.5	is about a bee whisperer. That's right, a bee whisperer, a beekeeper, a bee expert, a man who understands bees. He lives on the
1:13.6	outskirts of a desolate North African village, and he awakes one morning to find that a mysterious
1:18.3	swarm of vicious hornets has attacked his beehives, brutally killing every inhabitant. But where
1:24.9	do they come from? And how can he stop them? If he is going to unravel this mystery and save his bees,
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