797. Andrew Sean Greer

Otherppl with Brad Listi

Brad Listi

Arts, Society & Culture, Books

4.8 • 554 Ratings

🗓️ 2 November 2022

⏱️ 84 minutes

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Summary

Andrew Sean Greer is a Pulitzer Prize winner and the author of the novel Less is Lost (Little, Brown), a New York Times bestseller. Greer is the author of six works of fiction, including the bestsellers The Confessions of Max Tivoli and Less. Greer has taught at a number of universities, including the Iowa Writers Workshop, been a Today show pick, a New York Public Library Cullman Center Fellow, a judge for the National Book Award, and a winner of the California Book Award and the New York Public Library Young Lions Award. He is the recipient of a NEA grant, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. He lives in San Francisco. *** 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 this?
0:02.0	I love you.
0:04.0	I love you.
0:05.0	I'm going to text.
0:07.0	Hey everybody.
0:09.0	How are you?
0:10.0	Welcome to The Other People Show.
0:12.0	I am Brad Listy.
0:13.0	I'm in Los Angeles.
0:15.0	And it is good to be with you.
0:17.0	Thanks for listening.
0:19.0	My guest today is Andrew Sean Greer, Pulitzer Prize
0:23.8	winner and author of the new novel, Less is Lost. They'll say get rid of it, make it more
0:32.0	normal. They'll try to make it more like something they understand. And that's always the wrong
0:37.0	thing to do. The thing to do is to commit to what's strange about they understand. And that's always the wrong thing to do.
0:37.5	The thing to do is to commit to what's strange about it.
0:40.6	The thing that's sticking out that they want to lop off,
0:43.6	you have to make everything else match to that.
0:45.5	Because that's the thing that's you about the book.
0:46.9	That's the thing that's new and interesting.
0:48.9	And otherwise, it becomes like a mediocre book.
0:52.6	All right.
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