918. Carvell Wallace

Otherppl with Brad Listi

Brad Listi

Arts, Society & Culture, Books

4.8 • 554 Ratings

🗓️ 15 May 2024

⏱️ 90 minutes

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Carvell Wallace is the author of the debut memoir Another Word for Love, available from MCD Books. Wallace grew up between Southwestern PA, Washington DC, and Los Angeles. He attended Tisch School for the Arts and worked as a stage actor before spending fifteen years in direct service youth non-profits. He has covered arts, entertainment, music, culture, race, sports, and parenting for The New York Times Magazine, The New Yorker, Slate, GQ, Pitchfork, MTV News and others. As a podcast host, he has been nominated for a Peabody and won a Kaleidoscope Award and was the Slate parenting advice columnist. He is the co-author of the New York Times best-selling basketball memoir The Sixth Man with Andre Iguodala. He lives in Oakland and has two adult children, a comfortable couch, and a lot of plants. *** 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?
0:02.0	I'm on.
0:05.0	Hey, everybody.
0:06.6	Welcome to The Other People Show, a weekly podcast featuring in-depth interviews with today's
0:12.1	leading writers.
0:13.2	I'm Brad Listy, and I'm in Los Angeles.
0:15.6	Thanks for being here.
0:16.6	I appreciate it.
0:18.0	Hope you're doing okay wherever you happen to be.
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0:30.1	and Blue Sky.
0:35.7	So my guest today is Carvel Wallace, author of a debut memoir entitled Another Word for Love.
0:47.7	That has been a big part of helping me have a more accurate understanding of what things really mean.
0:55.9	You know, like, I don't think I had an understanding of what things meant in the world.
1:00.1	You know, it's like I either thought too much of myself or too little of myself, but never
1:04.7	just the right amount.
1:07.3	And so, you know, I think like the process of dealing soberly with all of the wreckage has helped me develop a more accurate view, which has been eminently helpful to my own life and to my ability to show up and be in relationship with other people.
1:24.1	All right.
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