822. Madelaine Lucas

Otherppl with Brad Listi

Brad Listi

Books, Society & Culture, Arts

4.8 • 554 Ratings

🗓️ 19 March 2023

⏱️ 103 minutes

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Madelaine Lucas is the author of the debut novel Thirst for Salt, available from Tin House. Lucas is a senior editor of NOON. Born in 1990, she was raised in Melbourne and Sydney as the daughter of a visual artist and a rock ‘n’ roll musician. In 2015, she moved to New York to complete her MFA in fiction at Columbia University, where she now teaches in the undergraduate and graduate writing programs. Her essays and interviews have appeared in publications such as Paris Review Daily, The Believer, Literary Hub, Catapult, The Lifted Brow and Meanjin, and her fiction has been awarded the Elizabeth Jolley Prize and the Overland/Victoria University Emerging Writer’s Prize. She lives in Brooklyn with her husband and her dog, Pancho. *** 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	The Premier League is exciting.
0:04.0	It's exhilarating.
0:07.0	And sometimes it's...
0:11.0	So when you need something to help you ride the highest and loads of all that action,
0:17.0	grab a Coke to keep you in the game.
0:20.0	Time to refresh. Time for a Coke. Coca-Cola. Official partner of the Premier League.
0:29.9	Right, that's it. Come on. Lights out. You've got a test tomorrow. Just two minutes. I'm about to reach the next level. It's going off now. Yeah, whatever. Let's see. Where's the app?
0:39.4	Oh, here it is.
0:41.0	What? How?
0:42.4	Oh, no. You're out. Better look next time.
0:45.1	Mom!
0:46.2	It's game over for late nights on school nights.
0:49.0	EE Wi-Fi controls help you get them off the Wi-Fi and into bed.
0:53.0	More parents are choosing EE broadbandroadband, the UK's fastest
0:56.3	growing broadband provider. To verify I see EE.com.ukuk slash claims. Hey, where is this,
1:01.4	buddy? Hi, everyone. What's going on? Welcome to The Other People Show. I'm Brad Listy and I am here in Los Angeles, California. I hope you're doing all right out there wherever you happen to be. Thank you for listening. I have a great episode for you today. My guest is Madeline Lucas, author of the debut novel, Thirst for Salt.
1:30.7	I feel like if you're going to write a novel about love, how could you not talk about family,
1:36.1	which is for better or worse, you know, our first experience of what love is or can be.
1:42.2	And I was thinking a lot about the ways that were influenced by the relationship
1:50.3	we see between our parents and also the stories that they tell about love and the way they
1:56.6	kind of shapes the choices that we make in our own lives. Okay, that was Madeline Lucas, author of the novel Thirst for Salt.
2:06.4	It's available now in the United States from Tin House and in the UK from One World Publications.
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