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Otherppl with Brad Listi

767. Julia May Jonas

Otherppl with Brad Listi

Brad Listi

Arts, Society & Culture, Books

4.8554 Ratings

🗓️ 13 April 2022

⏱️ 81 minutes

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Summary

Julia May Jonas is the author of the debut novel Vladimir, available from Avid Reader Press. Jonas is a playwright and teaches theater at Skidmore College. She holds an MFA in playwriting from Columbia University and lives in Brooklyn with her family. Vladimir is her debut 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. 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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Hello everybody.

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Hey, what's going on? This is Brad Listy. This is The Other People Show. I am in Los Angeles, California. It is nice to be with you. Thank you for listening. Today on the program, my guest is Julia May Jonas, author of the critically acclaimed debut novel, Vladimir.

0:58.2

And there is a real sense of feeling your way through a character and letting that feeling and kind of the sense of where they hold themselves in their body and the kind of

1:03.6

pace of their thoughts. You know, all of those things are things that I would practice

1:09.6

in playwriting.

1:18.3

Okay, that is Julia Mae Jonas, author of the debut novel, Vladimir, which incidentally has nothing to do with Vladimir Putin. You will be relieved to learn. I think we've all had

1:23.7

just about enough of him. Vladimir is a campus novel.

1:29.3

It is a wonderfully voiced novel and a wonderfully intelligent novel.

1:35.3

It is available now from avid reader press.

1:37.3

A remarkably assured debut.

1:40.3

A gripping work of fiction.

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