775. Hernan Diaz

Otherppl with Brad Listi

Brad Listi

Arts, Society & Culture, Books

4.8 • 554 Ratings

🗓️ 1 June 2022

⏱️ 74 minutes

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Hernan Diaz is the author of the novel Trust, available from Riverhead. A finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for fiction and the PEN/Faulkner Award, Diaz's work has been translated into more than twenty languages. He has published stories and essays in The Paris Review, Granta, Playboy, The Yale Review, McSweeney’s, and elsewhere. His first novel, In the Distance, was the winner of the Saroyan International Prize, the Cabell Award, the Prix Page America, and the New American Voices Award, among other distinctions. It was also a Publishers Weekly Top 10 Book of the Year and one of Lit Hub’s 20 Best Novels of the Decade. He is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Whiting Award, and fellowships from the New York Public Library’s Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers, the The Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center, MacDowell, Yaddo, and the Ingmar Bergman Estate. He holds a PhD from NYU, edits an academic journal at Columbia University, and is also the author of Borges, between History and Eternity. * * * 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, Google 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	Hey folks, today's episode is made possible by Help Existing, the new podcast from author and award-winning journalist Rachel Krantz.
0:09.3	On Help Existing, you will hear Rachel interview a different guest each week to get practical help on a specific aspect of existing.
0:18.5	This is a show where high-brow and low-brow topics happily coexist. You might hear a
0:23.3	conversation about how to confront your fear of death one week. And then the next week, you
0:28.2	might hear about how to have your first conversation with a partner about kink or whether
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1:04.9	All right. Hello, everybody. How are you? Welcome to the show. Welcome to the Other People podcast. My name is Brad Listy, and I'm in Los Angeles. It's good to be with you. I have an excellent program for you today. My guest is Ernan Diaz, author of the novel Trust. We shouldn't be too quick to dismiss fiction from the realm of truth.
1:30.7	The novel is inviting the reader to reconsider this hierarchy, where history is supposed to provide
1:38.4	us with the truth, and fiction is just a mere innocuous pastime.
1:44.6	Okay, that was Ernan Diaz.
1:47.4	His new novel, once again, is called Trust.
1:51.2	Available now from Riverhead.
1:54.9	The conversation with Ernan Diaz will be happening momentarily.
2:00.5	Today's episode is brought to you by Ig, publisher of my new novel.
2:05.6	Be brief and tell them everything.
2:07.6	It is available now in trade paperback and ebook editions.
2:11.6	You can also find it in an audiobook edition from Tantor Media and Highbridge Audio.
2:18.3	The audiobook is narrated by yours truly.
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