868. Vauhini Vara

Otherppl with Brad Listi

Brad Listi

Books, Society & Culture, Arts

4.8 • 554 Ratings

🗓️ 27 September 2023

⏱️ 87 minutes

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Vauhini Vara is the author of the story collection This is Salvaged, available from W.W. Norton & Co. Vara has been a reporter and editor for the Wall Street Journal, The New Yorker, and the New York Times Magazine, and is the prize-winning author of the novel The Immortal King Rao, which was a finalist for the Pulitzer. She lives in Fort Collins, Colorado. *** 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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1:08.2	collection entitled this is is Salvaged.
1:12.2	But I do feel that it's important to me to sort of honor and appreciate the lives that we do have and the world that we're in and the experiences past and present that we've been given.
1:27.3	And I think I bring that up in part because I think that's a kind of world view that is present
1:35.0	in the collection.
1:36.2	The idea that like there's grief and they're suffering and yet like here we are and how
1:43.5	lucky is that. You know, I certainly, like, here we are and how lucky is that?
1:44.4	You know, I certainly, that is certainly something that my sister imparted.
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