932. Nina Sharma

Otherppl with Brad Listi

Brad Listi

Arts, Society & Culture, Books

4.8 • 554 Ratings

🗓️ 23 July 2024

⏱️ 93 minutes

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Summary

Nina Sharma is the author of the debut memoir-in-essays The Way You Make Me Feel: Love in Black and Brown, available from Penguin Press. It is the official July pick of the Otherppl Book Club. Sharma's work has appeared in The New Yorker, Electric Literature, Longreads, and The Margins. A graduate of the MFA program at Columbia University, she served as the programs director at the Asian American Writers' Workshop and currently teaches at Columbia and Barnard College. She is a proud cofounder of the all-South Asian women's improv group Not Your Biwi. *** 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.
0:03.0	I love you.
0:04.0	I love you.
0:05.0	Woo.
0:06.0	Hey, everybody.
0:07.0	Welcome to the program.
0:08.0	This is The Other People Podcast,
0:10.0	a weekly show featuring in-depth interviews with today's leading writers.
0:14.0	I am Brad Listy and I'm in Los Angeles.
0:17.0	Thank you for being here.
0:19.0	It's good to be with you. I have a great episode for you
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0:42.6	So my guest today is Nina Sharma,
0:48.1	author of a new memoir in essays called The Way You Make Me Feel.
0:50.8	Yeah, and I often say, you know,
0:54.3	the fun doesn't have to be like a traditional notion of fun. It can be weird. It can be uncommon. I often say that, you know, the fun doesn't have to be like a traditional notion of fun.
0:55.1	It can be weird.
0:56.5	It can be uncommon.
1:00.7	I often say that, you know, I mean, my husband always talk about this, the fun of the stories.
1:03.8	Sometimes you've just survived the hard thing and lived to tell.
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