827. Tara Conklin

Otherppl with Brad Listi

Brad Listi

Books, Society & Culture, Arts

4.8 • 554 Ratings

🗓️ 9 April 2023

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Tara Conklin is the author of the novel Community Board. It was the official March pick of the book club. Conklin was born on St. Croix in the US Virgin Islands and raised in Stockbridge, Massachusetts. She is the author of the New York Times bestsellers The Last Romantics and The House Girl. *** 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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0:31.2	Hello, what's happening out there? This is the Other People Show. I'm Brad Listy here in Los Angeles.
0:44.6	It's good to be with you. Thank you for listening wherever you happen to be. Today on the program, my guest is Tara Conklin, author of the novel Community Board.
0:46.0	And it was very funny.
0:50.6	As soon as I told, you know, all my friends that I was writing this book about that was based on a next door app, everyone started sending me, like, their favorite posts.
0:57.0	Because, of course, every single neighborhood has their own, you know, moments of scandal and
1:04.0	controversy and the silly, you know, the silly disputes that erupt on these boards.
1:09.3	So I was just, yeah, I still,
1:11.4	people are still sending me emails. All right, everybody, there we have Tara Conklin.
1:17.3	Her new novel is called Community Board. It is available now from Mariner Books.
1:22.9	It was the official March pick of the book club, the TNB book club, the Nervous Breakdown book club.
1:29.7	The Nervous Breakdown is my longtime literary site.
1:35.3	It has had its own monthly book club for more than a decade.
1:38.6	For more on that, visit The Nervous Breakdown.com.
1:41.1	It's essentially the other people book club, too.
1:46.1	Community Board was published on March 28th, and it is the follow-up novel to Tara Conklin's
1:51.8	bestseller entitled The Last Romantics. I had a great time in conversation with her. That is
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