894. Annie Liontas

Otherppl with Brad Listi

Brad Listi

Arts, Society & Culture, Books

4.8 • 554 Ratings

🗓️ 28 January 2024

⏱️ 86 minutes

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Annie Liontas is the author of the memoir-in-essays Sex with a Brain Injury, available from Scribner. Liontas is also the author of the novel Let Me Explain You, and they co-edited the anthology A Manner of Being: Writers on their Mentors. Their work has appeared in The New York Times Book Review, Gay Magazine, NPR, Electric Literature, BOMB, Lithub, The Believer, Guernica, McSweeney’s, The Rumpus, and elsewhere. A graduate of Syracuse University’s MFA program, they are a professor of writing at George Washington University. Liontas has served as a mentor for Pen City’s incarcerated writers and helped secure a Mellon Foundation grant on Disability Justice to bring storytelling to communities in the criminal justice system. They co-host the literary podcast LitFriends and live in Philadelphia with their wife, dog, and Email the rabbit. *** 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, Spotify, YouTube, etc. Subscribe to Brad Listi’s email newsletter. Support the show on Patreon Merch Twitter Instagram TikTok Bluesky 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	Hey, where is this, Brad?
0:02.0	I love it.
0:06.1	Hey, everybody.
0:07.0	Welcome to the program.
0:08.2	This is The Other People Show.
0:10.0	I'm Brad Listy, and I'm in Los Angeles, California.
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0:38.3	My guest today is Annie Leontas, author of a new memoir in essays called Sex with a Brain Injury.
0:50.3	For an outsider, if I said, you know, head injury, you're not thinking about that
0:56.3	person's sex life and you're not, you know, like maybe you're thinking about their relationship
1:00.1	to work and maybe you're thinking about their relationship to their own body in terms of like
1:06.2	vulnerability or like memory. Like usually people are like memory or like you know physical injury.
1:12.9	You're not thinking about all these layers of self that get impacted because of the isolation and
1:18.3	the pain and right. And I actually wrote this piece, you know, the essay, Sex with a Brain
1:23.6	Injury First because it was, you know, it's invisibility inside invisibility.
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