773. Mary Laura Philpott

Otherppl with Brad Listi

Brad Listi

Arts, Society & Culture, Books

4.8 • 554 Ratings

🗓️ 18 May 2022

⏱️ 92 minutes

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Summary

Mary Laura Philpott is the author of the memoir-in-essays Bomb Shelter: Love, Time, and Other Explosives (Atria Books). It was the official April pick of the TNB Book Club. Philpott, nationally bestselling author of I Miss You When I Blink, writes about the overlap of the absurd and the profound in everyday life. Her writing has been featured by The New York Times, The Washington Post, and The Atlantic, among many other publications. A former bookseller, she also hosted an interview program on Nashville Public Television for several years. Mary Laura lives in Nashville, Tennessee, with her family. *** 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	Hello everybody. Hey, how's it going? This is the Other People Show. And I am talking to you from Los Angeles. Today on the program, my guest is Mary Laura Philpott, author of the memoir and essays entitled Bomb Shelter, Love, Time,
0:26.1	and Other Explosives.
0:27.2	I am putting on a show. I'm trying to entertain you and I'm trying to give you a good story
0:33.9	and a good experience and light up all your emotional circuits and make you feel
0:37.8	make you feel like you've been to a show not just like I read these words on the page okay I guess
0:42.6	you got the point across all right that was mary Laura Philpot her new book is called bomb shelter
0:48.9	available now from atria bomb shelter is at once intimate and charming and emotional and raw while also managing to be
1:04.1	consistently funny and warm.
1:07.3	Just a pleasure to read.
1:09.3	It's a book about family and fate and fear and love and death.
1:13.6	It's about the unexpected turns that life can take.
1:16.6	Especially life as we experience it today with all of its intensifying
1:22.6	complexities and existential terrors and all the rest.
1:28.3	Bomb Shelter I should also mention was the official March pick of the Nervous Breakdown Book Club.
1:34.3	The Nervous Breakdown is an online literary magazine that I found it all the way back in 2006.
1:42.3	And it has its own monthly book club.
1:45.5	You get a new book delivered to your door every month,
1:48.0	and I interview the book club authors on this program.
1:51.9	For more information on how to join the book club,
1:54.9	just head over to the Nervous Breakdown.com.
2:00.2	I should also mention that I usually release episodes with a book club author in the corresponding
2:07.3	month of their feature.
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