706. Elissa Washuta

Otherppl with Brad Listi

Brad Listi

Arts, Society & Culture, Books

4.8 • 554 Ratings

🗓️ 12 May 2021

⏱️ 87 minutes

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Elissa Washuta is the author of the essay collection White Magic, now available from Tin House. Washuta is a member of the Cowlitz Indian Tribe and a nonfiction writer. Her other books are My Body Is a Book of Rules and Starvation Mode, and with Theresa Warburton, she is co-editor of the anthology Shapes of Native Nonfiction: Collected Essays by Contemporary Writers. She has received fellowships and awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, Creative Capital, Artist Trust, 4Culture, and Potlatch Fund. She is an assistant professor of creative writing at the Ohio State University. *** 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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0:32.1	All right. Hey, how you doing? I'm Brad Listy. This is The Other People Show. I'm in Los Angeles. I hope you're okay, wherever you are. I have Alyssa Waschuta on the program today. She is my guest. She is the author of an essay collection called White Magic, available now from Tin House.
0:55.2	I had a great time talking with Alyssa Wachuda.
0:58.4	Her essay collection, it reads like a memoir.
1:03.1	It reads like a unified thing.
1:06.5	It's very formally inventive.
1:10.3	It feels like deeply personal in a way that exceeds most collections of personal essays.
1:18.9	If that's a way to put it, I talk about this with Alyssa in conversation.
1:24.3	It's a book that could only have been written by her.
1:32.3	And I mean that as a compliment. And if I, you know, not to be cute about it, but there's something kind of magical about the way she pulls it off.
1:40.3	She does a lot of things that you're not supposed to be able to do, it feels like,
1:45.1	and yet she does them and it works. And it's also a harrowing story in the aggregate and a story
1:53.5	of triumph in a way. So much to come, great conversation with Alyssa with Shuda.
2:03.8	Again, her essay collection is called White Magic.
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