803. Allegra Hyde

Otherppl with Brad Listi

Brad Listi

Arts, Society & Culture, Books

4.8 • 554 Ratings

🗓️ 7 December 2022

⏱️ 84 minutes

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Allegra Hyde is the author of the novel Eleutheria, available from Vintage. It is the official December pick of the TNB Book Club. Hyde's debut story collection, Of This New World, won the John Simmons Short Fiction Award through the Iowa Short Fiction Award Series. Her stories and essays have appeared in The Pushcart Prize, Best of the Net, The Best Small Fictions, and The Best American Travel Writing. Originally from New Hampshire, she currently lives in Ohio and teaches at Oberlin College. *** 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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0:31.8	Hey everybody, how are you?
0:39.1	Welcome to the show.
0:40.5	Welcome to the Other People podcast.
0:42.5	I'm Brad Lestey, and I am in Los Angeles.
0:44.8	It's nice to be with you.
0:46.1	I appreciate you tuning in.
0:48.2	I have a great episode for you today, a conversation with Allegra Hyde, author of a novel called Ellutheria.
0:58.1	It felt important to try to show a reality that was eerily familiar, also slightly, slightly off.
1:07.5	And I think climate change is a little bit easier to look at and process. If you're
1:13.2	looking at it like a little slantways or a little sideways. And so that also felt like a way
1:18.8	to engage with the material, to give the book this sort of surreal edge to it. And so that's
1:26.7	how I was thinking about time.
1:29.5	Okay, that was Allegra Hyde, author of the novel Elutheria, available now from vintage.
1:37.1	Elotheria is the official December pick of the Nervous Breakdown Book Club, the TNB book club.
1:43.4	The Nervous Breakdown.com is my online culture magazine founded in 2006, and it has its own
1:49.4	monthly book club.
1:52.4	For more on that, go to the Nervous Breakdown.com and click on book club in the menu bar.
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