931. Juliet Escoria

Otherppl with Brad Listi

Brad Listi

Arts, Society & Culture, Books

4.8 • 554 Ratings

🗓️ 16 July 2024

⏱️ 78 minutes

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Juliet Escoria is the author of the story collection You Are the Snake, available from Soft Skull Press. Escoria is the author of the novel Juliet the Maniac (Melville House, May 2019), which was named a "best of" book by Nylon, Elle, Buzzfeed, and others, and was shortlisted for the VCU Cabell First Novelist Prize. She also wrote the poetry collection Witch Hunt (Lazy Fascist Press, 2016) and the story collection Black Cloud (CCM/Emily Books, 2014), which were both listed in various best of the year roundups. Her writing can be found in places like Prelude, VICE, The Fader, BOMB, and the New York Times, and has been translated into many languages. She was born in Australia, raised in San Diego, and currently lives in West Virginia, where she teaches English at a community college. *** 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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1:02.9	blue sky so my guest today is Juliet Escoria, author of The Story Collection, You Are the Snake.
1:17.4	I don't know, the story collection, I wasn't thinking, I'm going to write a story collection
1:21.0	that's going to explore this, this, and this.
1:23.3	Like, I knew I was writing about gender as I was doing it with, you know, without really trying to, but I was aware of that.
1:29.9	And then later looking at it and being like, what is this quote unquote about and trying to find some sort of like sense in the stories that I just wrote because I wanted to write them.
1:40.4	And I think that was like something I was trying to do was, you know, it was they post Me Too era.
1:46.9	A lot of it was written during COVID of people just, you know, being morally superior type stuff on the internet.
1:54.2	And I was like, none of us are like that.
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