902. Lauren Markham

Otherppl with Brad Listi

Brad Listi

Arts, Society & Culture, Books

4.8 • 554 Ratings

🗓️ 25 February 2024

⏱️ 74 minutes

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Lauren Markham is the author of A Map of Future Ruins, available from Riverhead Books. Markham is the author of the award-winning The Far Away Brothers: Two Young Migrants and the Making of an American Life. She has been working with migrants for two decades and has written about migration and other social issues in The New York Times Magazine, The Guardian, The New York Review of Books, and other publications. She lives in Berkeley, CA. *** 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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0:39.7	I'm Brad Listy, and I'm in Los Angeles.
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1:10.6	My guest today is Lauren Markham, author of a new book called A Map of Future Ruins.
1:19.8	I'd published a book in 2017 about migration from El Salvador, and I'd covered just border
1:26.2	politics in the U.S. for so long,
1:27.8	and I was feeling pretty bereft and forlorn and overwhelmed.
1:31.1	And I was just walking in circles.
1:32.9	I was, I was banging my head against the same wall and sort of shouting into the same things,
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