897. Margot Livesey

Otherppl with Brad Listi

Brad Listi

Arts, Society & Culture, Books

4.8 • 554 Ratings

🗓️ 7 February 2024

⏱️ 76 minutes

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Margot Livesey is the author of the novel The Road from Belhaven, available from Knopf. Livesey was born and grew up on the edge of the Scottish Highlands. She is the author of a collection of stories and nine other novels, including Eva Moves the Furniture, The Flight of Gemma Hardy, and The Boy in the Field. She has received awards from the NEA, the Guggenheim Foundation and the Radcliffe Institute. She lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts and is on the faculty of the Iowa Writers' Workshop. *** 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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1:38.8	So my guest today is Margo Livesey, author of a new novel called The Road from Belhaven.
1:48.4	I find this fascinating in my own life and in those of people I encounter.
1:54.0	You know, it can seem that a person is going from A to B to C, that the path is rolling out before them and then suddenly there's a swerve or a jump.
2:03.6	Perhaps they meet someone, perhaps they fail an exam, perhaps they get a job,
2:09.6	perhaps they decide to go to Samoa, you know, that something very unexpected occurred.
2:16.6	And I find that tremendously interesting, the unpredictability and the sense one has,
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