789. Luke Dani Blue

Otherppl with Brad Listi

Brad Listi

Arts, Society & Culture, Books

4.8 • 554 Ratings

🗓️ 7 September 2022

⏱️ 100 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

Luke Dani Blue is the author of the debut story collection Pretend It's My Body, available from The Feminist Press. It is the official September pick of The Nervous Breakdown Book Club. Blue’s stories have appeared in the Colorado Review, Crab Orchard Review, and have been included on the list of the year's most distinguished stories in Best American Short Stories 2016. Originally from Michigan, Luke (they/them) is a two-time college dropout and time-traveling Victorian invalid who resides most reliably on the internet. They are also an astrologer. *** 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

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	Hey, where is this?
0:02.0	I'm on.
0:03.0	I love you.
0:04.0	I'm not going.
0:05.0	I'm just not.
0:07.0	Hey, everybody, how's it going?
0:09.0	Welcome to The Other People Show.
0:11.0	This is Brad Listy.
0:12.0	I am your host, and I am in Los Angeles.
0:14.0	It's good to be with you.
0:16.0	Thanks for listening.
0:17.0	Today, on the program, my guest is Luke Danny Blue,
0:22.3	author of the debut story collection,
0:25.4	Pretend It's My Body.
0:27.7	You know, people who have written really,
0:32.4	mostly just really generous things about the book,
0:35.6	including some writer friends of mine who wrote blurbs and stuff,
0:39.0	like have not always, but tended to for really, you know, reasons that are make sense and I think
0:47.8	are valid for the collection, like to focus on gender as a element, like a central element of the book.
0:56.4	And it's not like it's not central, but honestly, like, it's not super important to me.
1:01.8	Like, I, it's important to me in the sense of, and I think this is also why I get so much attention.
1:07.2	It's like, it's really, like, it kind of just sucks to live in a world where
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Brad Listi, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Brad Listi and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.