920. Hari Kunzru

Otherppl with Brad Listi

Brad Listi

Arts, Society & Culture, Books

4.8 • 554 Ratings

🗓️ 22 May 2024

⏱️ 82 minutes

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Hari Kunzru is the author of the novel Blue Ruin, available from Knopf. Kunzru is the author of six other novels, Red Pill, White Tears, Gods Without Men, My Revolutions, Transmission, and The Impressionist. The recipient of fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the American Academy in Berlin, and the Cullman Center at the New York Public Library, he is a regular contributor to The New York Review of Books and writes the "Easy Chair" column for Harper's Magazine. He lives in Brooklyn and teaches in the Creative Writing Program at New York University. *** 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, folks, welcome to the program.
0:09.1	This is the Other People Show, a weekly podcast featuring in-depth interviews with today's
0:14.4	leading writers.
0:16.1	I am Brad Listy.
0:17.0	I'm your host.
0:17.7	I'm in Los Angeles.
0:19.5	Thank you for tuning in. I appreciate it. Hope you're doing okay.
0:22.7	Don't forget to subscribe to this show wherever you listen. You can also subscribe on YouTube. Follow the show on social media, TikTok, Instagram, Twitter, and Blue Sky.
0:37.3	So my guest today is Hari Kunzru, author of a new novel called Blue Ruin.
0:45.3	Suddenly there was a Labour government and this sort of young-looking Prime Minister Tony Blair
0:50.3	who appeared to be much closer in tone than the, than the sort of wax
0:55.2	works who'd been in charge of things for a while. It was the period where people talked
0:59.9	about Cool Britannia. And there was, you know, there was a sudden, and it was pre-9-11. So there's
1:04.8	this kind of period that's actually very short in retrospect, in four or five years, of real
1:09.6	optimism. And that's when I've set the story.
1:13.3	And so there's this contrast between this group of young people
1:16.0	who have everything in front of them and who are talented and hopeful.
1:20.8	And then these same people many years later, when life has done stuff to them.
1:26.7	And everybody has ended up somewhere
1:28.5	different from where they thought they were going to end up.
1:32.5	All right, that was Hari Kunzru, author of the novel Blue Ruin, available now from Knapp.
1:40.6	Blue Ruin is about a once promising artist named Jay, a graduate of art school in London.
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