850. Nicole Flattery

Otherppl with Brad Listi

Brad Listi

Arts, Society & Culture, Books

4.8 • 554 Ratings

🗓️ 12 July 2023

⏱️ 78 minutes

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Nicole Flattery is the author of the novel Nothing Special, available from Bloomsbury. Flattery is also the author of the story collection Show Them A Good Time. She is the winner of A Post Irish Book Award, the Kate O'Brien Prize, the London Magazine Prize for Debut Fiction, and the White Review Short Story Prize. Her work has appeared in theStinging Fly, the Guardian, the White Review, and the London Review of Books. A graduate of the master's program in creative writing at Trinity College, she lives in Dublin, Ireland. *** Otherppl with Brad Listi is a weekly literary podcast featuring in-depth interviews with today's leading writers. 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	Hello, folks. How are you? Welcome to the program. This is the Other People Show. I'm Brad
0:11.1	Listery in Los Angeles. It's good to be with you. Thank you for tuning in. I hope you're doing
0:16.5	all right out there wherever you are. I have a great episode for you today. Don't forget to
0:22.1	subscribe to the podcast wherever you listen. Follow it on social media, TikTok, Instagram,
0:28.5	and Twitter. My guest today is Nicole Flattery, author of a new novel called Nothing Special.
0:40.3	I do think that Warhol predicted that kind of world, almost like maybe not as like the version I'm writing about here, that 60s version, which was still, you know, a little bit dark and certainly had like an interest in real life and like stakes in real life but like the 80s version which
0:55.2	was like selling selling like you know painting whatever appearing wherever like you know just almost
1:02.5	like a corpse just showing up at these things I feel like he that version of him is like how I feel
1:09.8	about the culture now not almost not the version I wrote about it, you know.
1:15.0	Okay, that was Nicole Flattery.
1:17.8	Her new novel, her debut novel is called Nothing Special, available now in North America from Bloomsbury.
1:25.3	Nothing Special is a coming-of- age novel about a teenage girl working at
1:30.3	Andy Warhol's factory in 1960s, New York City. Her name is May. She is 17. She comes from a bit of a rough
1:38.5	background. And she drops out of high school and gets a job as a typist for the artist Andy Warhol.
1:48.5	And what she is doing for Warhol is transcribing conversations and experiences that he put on tape,
1:55.5	featuring many of his famous and alluring and often drug-addled friends.
2:01.4	And this is a real thing, this novel.
2:05.5	And the typists who did all of this transcribing,
2:09.7	two of the four of them are sort of lost to history.
2:12.3	So Nicole Flattery in this novel is imagining who these women might be and bringing us into their world
2:20.2	and showing us what it might have been like to exist in that place at that time inside of
2:27.1	the Warhol factory scene but also outside of it at the same time.
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