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Otherppl with Brad Listi

936. Keziah Weir

Otherppl with Brad Listi

Brad Listi

Arts, Society & Culture, Books

4.8 • 554 Ratings

🗓️ 20 August 2024

⏱️ 74 minutes

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Summary

Keziah Weir is the author of the debut novel The Mythmakers, available in trade paperback from Marysue Rucci Books. Weir is a senior editor at Vanity Fair. Her writing has appeared in The New York Times, Elle, Esquire, and the Los Angeles Review of Books. She grew up in California and British Columbia, and currently lives in Maine with her husband and dog.   *** Otherppl with Brad Listi is a weekly 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, Bradford?

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I love you.

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Woo, who.

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This is The Other People Podcast,

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a weekly program featuring in-depth interviews.

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With today's leading writers, I'm Brad Listy.

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It's good to be with you.

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I am here in Los Angeles, and I have a great episode for you today.

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0:25.6

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0:32.6

So my guest today is Kiziah Weir, author of the debut novel, The Myth Makers.

0:40.0

So him as a figure sort of was looming large over the book.

0:46.2

And then I did become interested in all of these literary men and the women who sort of existed in their wake. I was also,

0:58.0

like I love Nabokov and his relationship with Vera was something that I thought about a lot

1:04.3

in college in the years afterwards. And just the relationships between writers and their partners, I think is really interesting,

1:14.9

especially when both are writers.

1:18.7

Okay, that was Keziah Weir, author of the debut novel The Myth Makers,

1:24.8

available now in trade paperback from Mary Sue Rootie Books. The Myth Makers, available now in trade paperback from Mary Sue Rootie books.

1:29.7

The Myth Makers tells the story of a young journalist named Sal Cannon, who discovers a short

1:37.9

story that seems to be about her own life.

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