914. Annell López

Otherppl with Brad Listi

Brad Listi

Arts, Society & Culture, Books

4.8 • 554 Ratings

🗓️ 21 April 2024

⏱️ 74 minutes

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Annell López is the author of the debut story collection I'll Give You a Reason, available from The Feminist Press. Winner of the Louise Meriwether First Book Prize. López is a Dominican immigrant. A 2022 Peter Taylor fellow, her work has received support from Tin House and the Kenyon Review Workshops and has appeared in American Short Fiction, Michigan Quarterly Review, Brooklyn Rail, and elsewhere. López is an Assistant Fiction Editor for New Orleans Review and just finished her MFA at the University of New Orleans. She is working on a 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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0:31.8	Hey folks, welcome to the show.
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1:13.1	So my guest today is Anel Lopez, author of a debut story collection called I'll Give You a Reason.
1:19.6	I knew I wanted to write about Newark because I couldn't let it go emotionally. It felt so like puzzling to me and I was just trying to figure out like, why is this neighborhood
1:24.3	the way that it is? Why do we exist like this? It was always just a
1:27.9	pervasive question. And it felt so wonderful to me that, you know, people like myself and my
1:34.2	brother and my peers could be dropped from one country and then be, you know, in this place
1:41.7	and could figure things out. And people could take the SAT with their peers
1:45.9	and get into college and get these degrees and sort of live this narrative, this immigrant
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