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Otherppl with Brad Listi

833. Hannah Pittard

Otherppl with Brad Listi

Brad Listi

Books, Society & Culture, Arts

4.8554 Ratings

🗓️ 30 April 2023

⏱️ 95 minutes

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Summary

Hannah Pittard is the author of the memoir We Are Too Many, available from Henry Holt & Co. Pittard is the author of four novels. She is a winner of the Amanda Davis Highwire Fiction Award, a MacDowell Colony fellow, and a graduate of Deerfield Academy, the University of Chicago, and the University of Virginia. She also spent some time at St. John's College in Annapolis. She is a professor of English at the University of Kentucky and lives in Lexington with her boyfriend and stepdaughter. *** 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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0:31.4

Hey, everybody. How you doing?

0:36.4

Welcome to the Other People podcast.

0:38.7

I'm Brad Listy here in Los Angeles, California.

0:42.8

It's good to be with you.

0:44.0

Thank you for listening.

0:45.5

I hope you're doing all right, wherever you happen to be.

0:49.1

Today on the program, my guest is Hannah Petard, author of a new memoir entitled We Are Too Many.

0:59.9

By the time I was writing it, I was significantly less emotionally attached, but the conversations had become more regular in my head that were recurring, and they'd also become

1:16.3

clearer. And it was like, these particular memories were just sticking with me. And when I wrote

1:24.7

them down, I did not think that I would be exercising them.

1:27.6

That was not the intention.

1:29.2

And yet now, seven years away from the divorce, two years having written this, it's like, they're gone.

1:37.0

It's like, poof, gone, except when I opened up the book.

1:40.6

And it's wonderful.

1:41.5

It's like, I've created this little box.

1:43.5

And I can open it and be like,

1:44.9

yeah, Brad, I remember that one. Yeah, I remember that one really well. And then I close it and it's just

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