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Otherppl with Brad Listi

729. Louise Nealon

Otherppl with Brad Listi

Brad Listi

Arts, Society & Culture, Books

4.8554 Ratings

🗓️ 29 September 2021

⏱️ 110 minutes

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Summary

Louise Nealon is the author of the debut novel Snowflake (Harper Books), a #1 International Bestseller. It is the official September pick of The Nervous Breakdown Book Club. Nealon is a writer from County Kildare, Ireland. In 2017, she won the Seán Ó Faoláin International Short Story Competition and was the recipient of the Francis Ledwidge Creative Writing Award. She has been published in the Irish Times, Southword, and The Open Ear.  Nealon received a degree in English literature from Trinity College Dublin in 2014 and a master's degree in creative writing from Queen's University Belfast in 2016. She lives on the dairy farm where she was raised, and Snowflake is her first novel. *** 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

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hello, how are you? Welcome to The Other People Show. I'm Brad Listy and I'm in Los Angeles. Thank you for listening. I have Louise Neeland on the program today. She is the author of a debut novel called Snowflake.

0:20.4

Critically acclaimed, number one international bestseller.

0:24.5

Available now in North America from Harper Books.

0:27.8

Snowflake is the official September pick of the Nervous Breakdown Book Club,

0:31.6

the TNB book club.

0:33.3

That's my monthly book club.

0:34.8

For more on that, go to the nervousbreakdown.com.

0:38.9

But, you know, basically the way it works is you sign up for the book club.

0:43.0

You get a book delivered to your door every month.

0:44.9

I interview book club authors on this program.

0:48.9

And it makes for a nice, holistic experience.

0:54.8

A few quick reminders.

0:56.7

The Other People podcast has a YouTube channel.

0:59.3

Did you know that?

1:00.3

This happened over the past year.

1:02.8

And I just want to flag it.

1:04.3

If you could subscribe to the YouTube channel,

1:06.2

I would appreciate that.

1:07.8

The entire archive of this podcast is now on YouTube and it's free go smash

1:14.1

the subscribe button as they say secondly if you like this show and you have a few

1:21.9

minutes on your hands and you don't mind rating and reviewing this show over at

1:26.9

Apple Podcasts or on Spotify or wherever

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