911. Alexandra Tanner

Otherppl with Brad Listi

Brad Listi

Arts, Society & Culture, Books

4.8 • 554 Ratings

🗓️ 31 March 2024

⏱️ 93 minutes

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Summary

Alexandra Tanner is the author of the debut novel Worry, available from Scribner. Tanner is a Brooklyn-based writer and editor. She is a graduate of the MFA program at The New School and the recipient of fellowships from MacDowell and The Center for Fiction. Her writing appears in The New York Times Book Review, Gawker, and Jewish Currents, among other outlets. Worry is her first novel. *** 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?
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0:03.3	Hi, everybody.
0:06.5	Welcome to the show.
0:07.7	This is the Other People podcast.
0:09.6	I am Brad Listy, and I'm in Los Angeles.
0:14.2	There was loud music playing right behind my house on a rooftop just a little bit ago it was like really bad rave music it sounded
0:23.4	like a kind of nightmare ebiza rave but the music has since subsided i've been sitting here waiting
0:32.8	it out trying not to lose my shit but it's over now
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1:02.1	So today on the program, I'm going to be talking with Alexandra Tanner, author of a debut novel
1:09.5	called Worry.
1:11.8	I wanted the book to be funny, certainly, and I wanted it to be funny in a highly specific way
1:20.5	that when I sent pages to my sibling, they would find it funny.
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