748. Robin McLean

Otherppl with Brad Listi

Brad Listi

Arts, Society & Culture, Books

4.8 • 554 Ratings

🗓️ 15 December 2021

⏱️ 126 minutes

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Summary

Robin McLean is the author of the debut novel Pity the Beast, available from And Other Stories. McLean worked as lawyer and then a potter in the woods of Alaska before turning to writing. Her story collection Reptile House won the 2013 BOA Editions Fiction Prize and was twice a finalist for the Flannery O'Connor Short Story Prize. She now lives and teaches in the high plains desert of central Nevada at Ike's Canyon Ranch Writer's Retreat which she co-founded. *** 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. Available where podcasts are available: Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher, iHeart Radio, etc. Subscribe to Brad Listi’s email newsletter. Support the show on Patreon Merch @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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0:38.0	All right. All right. What's going on, guys?
0:39.3	I'm Brad Listy.
0:40.1	I'm in Los Angeles.
0:41.2	This is the Other People Show.
0:43.4	I'm happy to have you here.
0:45.1	I have a wonderful conversation to share with Robin McLean,
0:51.6	author of the debut novel, P the Beast now available from and other stories
1:00.0	that's the name of the imprint and other stories Robin McLean is a very gifted writer
1:09.0	who has written an audacious.
1:13.9	I think that might be the right word for it.
1:16.8	A very audacious, gothic, Western, eco-feminist adventure comedy?
1:27.0	And, you know what
1:28.2	I got to put an asterisk next to comedy
1:30.5	because when I say comedy
1:31.9	I mean
1:33.4	dark comedy
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