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Otherppl with Brad Listi

853. Ruth Madievsky

Otherppl with Brad Listi

Brad Listi

Arts, Society & Culture, Books

4.8554 Ratings

🗓️ 23 July 2023

⏱️ 92 minutes

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Summary

Ruth Madievsky is the author of the debut novel All-Night Pharmacy, available from Catapult. Madievsky is the author of a bestselling poetry collection, Emergency Brake (Tavern Books, 2016). Her work appears in Harper's Bazaar, Guernica, Literary Hub, Kenyon Review, Ploughshares, and elsewhere. She is a founding member of the Cheburashka Collective, a community of women and nonbinary writers from the former Soviet Union. Originally from Moldova, she lives in Los Angeles, where she works as an HIV and primary care pharmacist. *** 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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There once was a woman who lived in a shoe. A size too snug, but what could she do?

0:25.9

But that's not where her story ends. Thanks to a little help from her Experian friends,

0:31.0

she got her score into much better shape and relocated to a box fresh new place, with room to grow

0:37.0

and a mortgage to suit.

0:39.3

Now, she lives in a spacious four bedroom cowboy boots.

0:43.3

Better your Experian credit score to help get mortgage ready.

0:46.3

Experian, better your score, better your story.

1:10.9

Hello, how's it going out there? Welcome to the program. This is the Other People Show. I am Brad Listy here in Los Angeles. It's nice to be with you. Thank you for tuning in. I hope you're doing all right wherever you are. Don't forget to subscribe to the Other people podcast wherever you listen you can also subscribe on YouTube follow the show

1:15.1

on social media TikTok Instagram and Twitter today my guest is Ruth

1:24.7

Matyewski author of the debut novel, All Night Pharmacy.

1:30.3

You know, I wrote the first line of this novel almost exactly as it was, which is

1:34.6

spending time with my sister Debbie, was like buying acid off a guy you met on the bus.

1:39.6

And I wrote that sentence and I thought, like, who's talking?

1:42.9

Like, I kind of want to see how the rest of their day is going to unfold.

1:46.2

And I just kind of let that voice keep talking.

1:48.4

And, you know, through trying to capture some of that LA weirdness that I grew up with,

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