707. Courtney Zoffness

Otherppl with Brad Listi

Brad Listi

Arts, Society & Culture, Books

4.8 • 554 Ratings

🗓️ 19 May 2021

⏱️ 101 minutes

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Courtney Zoffness is the author of Spilt Milk, a collection of memoirs available now from McSweeney's. It is the official May pick of The Nervous Breakdown Book Club. Zoffness writes fiction and nonfiction. She won the 2018 Sunday Times Short Story Award, the most valuable international prize for short fiction, amid entries from 38 countries. Other honors include an Emerging Writers Fellowship from the Center for Fiction, the Arts & Letters Creative Nonfiction Prize, and two residency fellowships from MacDowell. Her writing has appeared in various outlets, including the Paris Review Daily, the New York Times, The Southern Review, Guernica, and the Los Angeles Review of Books, and she had “notable” essays in Best American Essays 2018 & 2019. Zoffness holds graduate degrees from Johns Hopkins University and the University of Arizona, and a B.A. from the University of Pennsylvania. She directs the Creative Writing Program at Drew University and is a faculty member at Writing Workshops in Greece. She lives with her family in Brooklyn, New York. *** 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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0:00.0	Hello, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, it's good to be with you on Brad Listy.
0:10.5	I'm in Los Angeles.
0:11.5	I hope you're doing okay.
0:13.0	Thank you for listening.
0:14.5	I have a great show for you today.
0:16.0	Courtney Zoffness is my guest.
0:18.1	She has a new collection of memoirs out from McSweenies. It is called
0:22.2	spilt milk. And it is the official May pick of the Nervous Breakdown Book Club. The Nervous
0:29.3	Breakdown.com is my online culture magazine and literary community. It has its own monthly
0:34.4	book club. You get a book delivered to your door every 30 days.
0:37.8	I interview the authors on this program.
0:39.7	For more on that, visit the Nervous Breakdown.com.
0:47.1	So I really enjoyed spilt milk.
0:49.2	It is an intimate collection of deeply personal essays, memoirs, whatever you want to call it.
0:56.0	It's about inheritance.
0:58.5	It's about what we get as human beings from our parents, our ancestors, our culture,
1:07.4	whatever spiritual tradition we're born into.
1:13.3	All of that stuff.
1:15.8	And it speaks to the way that we live now,
1:18.0	in the way of great nonfiction in particular.
1:22.6	Great books, but this book is nonfiction,
1:25.9	and I recognized myself in it a lot and it taught me a lot.
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