895. Christina Cooke

Otherppl with Brad Listi

Brad Listi

Arts, Society & Culture, Books

4.8 • 554 Ratings

🗓️ 31 January 2024

⏱️ 86 minutes

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Christina Cooke is the author of the debut novel Broughtupsy, available from Catapult. Cooke's writing has previously appeared in The Caribbean Writer, Prairie Schooner, PRISM international, Epiphany: A Literary Journal, and elsewhere. A MacDowell Fellow, Journey Prize winner, and Glenna Luschei Prairie Schooner Award winner, she holds a Master of Arts degree from the University of New Brunswick and a Master of Fine Arts degree from the Iowa Writers' Workshop. Born in Jamaica, Christina is now a Canadian citizen who lives and writes in New York City. *** 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 you.
0:06.0	Hey, everybody.
0:07.0	Welcome to The Other People Show.
0:09.0	I'm Brad Listy.
0:10.0	I am your host.
0:11.9	How's it going out there?
0:13.1	How are you doing?
0:15.6	I feel like everybody's white-knuckling it.
0:18.1	Maybe this has always been the case.
0:19.6	But it feels like people are really just
0:22.6	hanging on by a thread. It's 2024. So I hope you're hanging on. Let's all hang on together,
0:30.3	shall we? Don't forget to subscribe to this show wherever you listen. You can also subscribe
0:35.5	on YouTube. Follow the program on social media
0:40.1	TikTok Instagram Twitter and blue sky so my guest today is Christina cook author of the
0:51.6	debut novel brought upought Up C.
1:00.0	There is no consensus around how to spell patois on the page.
1:05.4	And that's honestly one of the things that I love about this language is that it is a language that is always under revision.
1:07.8	Every time it is spoken, it is being re-made, recast to fit the image of the person
1:14.7	of speaking. Right. And so that was also one of the things that I wanted to explore in the book
1:19.7	is that as Akua begins kind of like better understand and then as she begins to use
1:24.8	Patoa as well, how she is also remaking it in her own image,
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