699. Hari Kunzru

Otherppl with Brad Listi

Brad Listi

Arts, Society & Culture, Books

4.8 • 554 Ratings

🗓️ 31 March 2021

⏱️ 75 minutes

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Hari Kunzru is the author of the novel Red Pill, available now from Knopf. This is Hari's second time on the program. He first appeared in Episode 57, on April 1, 2012. Born in London, he is the author of the novels The Impressionist, Transmission, My Revolutions, Gods Without Men, and White Tears, as well as a short story collection, Noise, and a novella, Memory Palace. He is an honorary fellow of Wadham College Oxford, and has received fellowships from the Cullman Center at the New York Public Library, the Guggenheim Foundation and the American Academy in Berlin. He is the host of the podcast Into The Zone, coming in September from Pushkin Industries, and lives in New York City. *** 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 YouTube 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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1:06.8	All right. How you doing? Welcome to The Other People Show. I'm Brad Listy. It's nice to be with you, wherever you happen to be. I have a great show for you. I have as my guest for the second time, Hari Coonsru. He is celebrating the publication of a new novel, or at least the recent publication of a new novel.
1:32.1	It is called Red Pill, and it is available from Knopf.
1:41.4	Harry Coonsruh first guessed it on this program almost nine years ago to the day in episode 57 all the way back in 2012.
1:45.6	He's published five previous novels, White Tears, Gods Without Men, My Revolutions, Transmission, and The Impressionist, and now Red Pill.
1:59.2	And this is a book that has worked on me in a strange way.
2:07.8	I was trying to explain this to Hari.
2:10.1	I'm not sure if I did a good enough job of it,
2:12.9	but it's one of these books that kind of hit me upside the head.
2:18.8	And the best comparison that I can make is when you listen to a record or an album,
2:26.1	at least back when people used to do that, when you sat and you listened to an entire record.
2:30.8	And afterwards, you weren't sure exactly how you felt
2:34.7	and yet you couldn't stop thinking about it
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