808. Bruce Wagner

Otherppl with Brad Listi

Brad Listi

Arts, Society & Culture, Books

4.8 • 554 Ratings

🗓️ 15 January 2023

⏱️ 89 minutes

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Bruce Wagner is the author of Roar: American Master, available from Arcade Publishing. Wagner has written twelve novels and bestsellers, including the famous "Cellphone Trilogy," I'm Losing You (PEN USA finalist), I'll Let You Go and Still Holding), Dead Stars, The Empty Chair, and the PEN/Faulkner-finalist Chrysanthemum Palace. He wrote the screenplay for David Cronenberg's film Maps to the Stars, for which Julianne Moore won Best Actress at the Cannes Film Festival in 2014. In 1993, Wagner wrote and created the visionary mini-series Wild Palms for producer Oliver Stone and co-wrote (with Ullman) three seasons the acclaimed Tracey Ullman'sState of the Union. He has written essays and articles for the New York Times, Artforum and the New Yorker. *** 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 TikTok 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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0:20.0	Where is there? This is the Other People podcast. I'm Brad Listy. I'm in Los Angeles.
0:32.9	Thanks for listening. Wherever you happen to be. Today on the program, my guest is Bruce Wagner,
0:40.6	author of Roar, American Master. I see my life through my books, that I have only existed
0:49.2	through my books. That's how I see it. I've met people that have led to me far more interesting lives and my life has been
0:58.0	completely in my head and is becoming more and more that way. So that's how I see it. You know what I mean?
1:08.0	A lot of solitude and obsessive craftwork and certain aspirations
1:19.3	toward the sacred. All right, that was Bruce Wagner, author of Roar, American Master,
1:31.6	the oral biography of Roger Orr, a novel.
1:40.8	So this is a fictional oral history of a mythic, Promethean, American cultural figure named Roger Orr.
1:48.3	I think that's the easiest way to sum it up. Roger Orr is a grand creation.
1:57.2	In the mind of Bruce Wagner, he is a man who is at once black, white. Well, he's male and female,
2:02.2	so he's not just a man. He's a comedian, he's a filmmaker, he's a dermatologist,
2:12.1	he's an author, a spiritual seeker, all of the above and more, and all at very high levels.
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