770. Steve Almond

Otherppl with Brad Listi

Brad Listi

Arts, Society & Culture, Books

4.8 • 554 Ratings

🗓️ 4 May 2022

⏱️ 81 minutes

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Steve Almond is the author of the debut novel All the Secrets of the World, available from Zando. Almond is the author of ten books of fiction and nonfiction, including the New York Times bestsellers Candyfreak and Against Football. He teaches Creative Writing at the Neiman Fellowship at Harvard and Wesleyan, as well as Hugo House, Grub Street, and numerous literary conferences. His essays and reviews have been widely published in The New York Times Magazine, The New York Times, The Boston Globe, The Los Angeles Times, GQ, The Wall Street Journal, Poets & Writers, Tin House, and Ploughshares. His journalism has received numerous awards including the top national prize for feature writing from the Society of Professional Journalists. His short stories have been anthologized in The Best American Short Stories, Best American Mysteries, Best American Erotica, and The Pushcart Prize. He serves as a literary correspondent for WBUR and appears on numerous podcasts. He lives in Arlington, Massachusetts. *** 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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0:00.0	McDonald's wraps all flavour, no mess.
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0:38.2	Price and participation may vary.
0:39.3	Subject to availability.
0:44.8	All right.
0:45.8	Hello.
0:46.4	Welcome to The Other People Show.
0:47.9	I'm Brad Listy.
0:48.9	I am in Los Angeles, California, and it is great to be with you.
0:52.6	I appreciate you listening.
0:56.3	Today, on the program, my guest is great to be with you. I appreciate you listening. Today, on the program,
1:02.6	my guest is Steve Almond, author of the new novel, All the Secrets of the World.
1:12.0	Your job really is to become more interested and more curious about why your characters are behaving in the ways that they're behaving than the ego drama of, is this a good sentence? Did I make the reader happy?
1:18.2	Oh, does the reader know how smart I am and how big my vocabulary is and how clever I am?
1:22.8	And like, once you're more interested in the story you're telling than whether it's interesting to the reader, whether your attention is really funny, that's when you know that you've got something on your hands.
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