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Otherppl with Brad Listi

732. Alexandra Kleeman

Otherppl with Brad Listi

Brad Listi

Arts, Society & Culture, Books

4.8554 Ratings

🗓️ 13 October 2021

⏱️ 99 minutes

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Summary

Alexandra Kleeman is the author of the novel Something New Under the Sun, available from Hogarth Press. Kleeman's other books include Intimations, a short story collection, and the novel You Too Can Have A Body Like Mine, which was awarded the 2016 Bard Fiction Prize and was a New York Times Editor’s Choice. In 2020, she was awarded the Rome Prize and the Berlin Prize. Her fiction has been published in The New Yorker, The Paris Review, Zoetrope, Conjunctions, and Guernica, among others, and other writing has appeared in Harper's, The New York Times Magazine, VOGUE, Tin House, n+1, and The Guardian. Her work has received fellowships and support from Bread Loaf, Djerassi, the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and the Headlands Center for the Arts. Born in 1986 in Berkeley, California, she was raised in Colorado and lives in Staten Island with her husband, the writer Alex Gilvarry. *** 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. 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

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0:02.3

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0:19.6

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0:23.5

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0:35.0

All right. Hey, how are you?

0:37.5

Welcome to The Other People Show.

0:39.0

I am Brad Listy, and I'm in Los Angeles.

0:41.4

It's nice to be with you, and it's nice to have Alexandra Clemen on the show today.

0:48.6

She is back on the program for a second time celebrating the publication of a new novel.

0:54.1

It's out on Hogarth, and it is called Something New Under the Sun.

0:58.8

You've probably read about it.

1:02.2

It's been generating a lot of buzz.

1:05.0

There's been a lot of acclaim.

1:06.3

There was a New York Times feature about Alex that you may have seen.

1:11.8

And I had such a nice time talking with her.

1:16.9

So stay tuned.

1:18.7

Alexander Clemen coming up.

1:20.6

Once again, her new novel is called Something New Under the Sun.

1:24.7

Today's episode is brought to you by Grey Wolf Press, publisher of The Swank Hotel,

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