777. Sloane Crosley

Otherppl with Brad Listi

Brad Listi

Arts, Society & Culture, Books

4.8 • 554 Ratings

🗓️ 15 June 2022

⏱️ 96 minutes

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Summary

Sloane Crosley is the author of the novel Cult Classic, available from MCD/FSG. Crosley is the author of The New York Times bestselling essay collections, I Was Told There’d Be Cake (a 2009 finalist for The Thurber Prize for American Humor) and How Did You Get This Number, as well as Look Alive Out There (a 2019 finalist for The Thurber Prize for American Humor) and the bestselling novel, The Clasp. She served as editor of The Best American Travel Writing series and is featured in The Library of America's 50 Funniest American Writers, The Best American Nonrequired Reading, Phillip Lopate’s The Contemporary American Essay and others. She was the inaugural columnist for The New York Times Op-Ed "Townies" series, a contributing editor at Interview Magazine, and a columnist for The Village Voice, Vanity Fair, The Independent, Black Book, Departures and The New York Observer. She is a contributing editor at Vanity Fair. Her next nonfiction book, Grief Is for People, will be published in 2023. She lives in New York City. *** 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, where is there?
0:02.0	Hello, hey, everybody. How are you? Welcome to the Other People Show. It's good to be with you.
0:13.0	I hope everything's okay out there. Normally I say, this is Brad Listy and I'm in Los Angeles.
0:18.8	Maybe I can stop doing that now, almost 800 episodes in.
0:22.0	I think people know who this is, right? Not that I'm some famous guy, but I mean the show's
0:28.6	called other people with Brad Listy. I think that sort of implies that the person talking is
0:33.1	Brad Listy. That's who this is. And it's good to be with you. Today on the program, I am very
0:41.2	happy to welcome Sloan Crosley back into the fold. She has a new novel out called Cult Classic.
0:49.8	There's no shame anymore in being into your body. There's no shame in talking about wellness culture and what's good for you and adaptogen powders.
0:59.5	And I'm like, you should be ashamed.
1:01.1	The reason you're not ashamed is because people who are much smarter are talking about it very publicly.
1:07.5	Okay, there we go. That is Sloan Crosley.
1:13.9	Her new novel again is called Cult Classic.
1:20.6	Available now from MCD, an imprint of Farrar Strauss and Giroux.
1:29.3	Today's episode is made possible by Northwestern University Press and its new release entitled, Oh, you thought this was a date?
1:32.3	Apocalypse Poems by C. Russell Price.
1:36.3	C. Russell Price's first full-length poetry collection is a somatic grimoire.
1:43.3	How do you like that? It's a somatic grimoire,
1:47.1	exploring desire, gender, and sexuality in multiverse, littered with flowers and product placement.
1:56.3	This is part pop culture bubble gum lip smack, part battle cry.
2:05.4	It is a collection that asks what is radical vengeance?
2:11.7	And does true survivorship from sexual trauma exist only in fantasy?
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