856. Jamel Brinkley

Otherppl with Brad Listi

Brad Listi

Arts, Society & Culture, Books

4.8 • 554 Ratings

🗓️ 2 August 2023

⏱️ 85 minutes

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Jamel Brinkley is the author of the story collection Witness, available from Farrar, Straus, & Giroux. Brinkley is the author of A Lucky Man: Stories, which won the Ernest J. Gaines Award for Literary Excellence and was a finalist for the National Book Award, the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize for Debut Fiction, the Story Prize, the John Leonard Prize, and the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award. He has also been awarded an O. Henry Prize, the Rome Prize, a Wallace Stegner Fellowship, and a Lannan Foundation Fellowship. His work has appeared in The Paris Review, A Public Space, Ploughshares, and The Best American Short Stories. He was raised in the Bronx and in Brooklyn, New York, and currently teaches at the Iowa Writers' Workshop. *** A SPECIAL OFFER for Otherppl listeners! Use the offer code SUMMERSCHOOL and get 10% off of all summer writing workshops at https://www.chillsubs.com/writeordie/education *** 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, how's it going?
0:08.0	Welcome to the Other People Show.
0:10.0	I am Brad Listy in Los Angeles.
0:12.0	It's nice to be with you.
0:14.0	Thanks for listening.
0:15.0	I hope you're feeling okay.
0:16.0	Don't forget to subscribe to this podcast.
0:19.0	Wherever you listen, you can also subscribe on YouTube follow the
0:23.5	show on social media TikTok Instagram and Twitter today my guest is Jamel Brinkley
0:33.7	author of a new story collection called Witness.
0:39.9	Actually, I think it's pretty useful to kind of like break yourself image sometimes,
0:44.5	to kind of be able to try at least to stand back from yourself and look at yourself and break
0:50.2	what you think you are.
0:52.2	Because it's probably not true, first of all. It's probably a flattery.
0:56.9	There's some kind of flattery going on there. So as much as possible to kind of realize that,
1:02.3	you know, again, this is the unreliability of the witness, right? You can be an unreliable
1:06.6	witness of yourself. You can think that you are this way. What actually needs to happen is that you
1:13.0	allow yourself to be vulnerable enough, to be pliable enough, that your self-image can change,
1:23.1	that you don't have to have this fixed idea of who you are because that fixed idea could be completely
1:28.1	off.
1:29.5	All right.
1:30.1	That was Jamel Brinkley.
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