821. Jennifer Michael Hecht

Otherppl with Brad Listi

Brad Listi

Books, Society & Culture, Arts

4.8 • 554 Ratings

🗓️ 12 March 2023

⏱️ 75 minutes

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Jennifer Michael Hecht is the author of The Wonder Paradox: Embracing the Weirdness of Existence and the Poetry of Our Lives, available from Farrar, Straus, & Giroux. Hecht, a historian and poet, is the award-winning and bestselling author of the histories Doubt, Stay, The Happiness Myth, and The End of the Soul. Her poetry books include Who Said, The Next Ancient World, and Funny. She earned her PhD in history from Columbia University and teaches 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 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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0:00.0	Hey, everyone, how's it going out there?
0:07.8	Welcome to The Other People Show.
0:09.8	I'm Brad Listy.
0:11.3	I am here in Los Angeles.
0:12.8	It's good to be with you.
0:14.5	I hope everything's okay out there.
0:17.0	I have a great episode for you today.
0:18.8	My guest is Jennifer Michael Hecht, author of The Wonder Paradox,
0:24.6	Embracing the Weirdness of Existence and the Poetry of Our Lives.
0:31.6	I found everywhere that people doubted religion, they came up with other reasons to live, other ways to see meaning.
0:40.6	And that has in some way that that's one of the reasons that I wrote this book.
0:48.7	All the things I've ever studied and researched and worked on, which sometimes felt very different and separate,
0:56.3	are absolutely culminated in this book. And it's an extraordinary experience for me to feel like
1:02.1	I said the thing. I got, I managed to express something I was chasing in so many different
1:10.4	directions.
1:12.1	All right, that was Jennifer Michael Hecht, author of The Wonder Paradox,
1:16.3	available now from Farrar Strauss and Giroux.
1:19.3	This is Jennifer's second time on the program.
1:23.5	The first time we spoke was all the way back in 2013 in episode 238,
1:29.8	back when she was celebrating the publication of her wonderful book entitled Stay,
1:35.8	a history of suicide and the philosophies against it.
1:42.4	In her new book, The Wonder Paradox,
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