937. Lena Valencia

Otherppl with Brad Listi

Brad Listi

Arts, Society & Culture, Books

4.8 • 554 Ratings

🗓️ 27 August 2024

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

Lena Valencia is the author of the debut story collection Mystery Lights, available from Tin House. It is the official August pick of the Otherppl Book Club. Valencia's fiction has appeared in Ninth Letter, Epiphany, Joyland, the anthology Tiny Nightmares, and elsewhere. She is the recipient of a 2019 Elizabeth George Foundation grant and holds an MFA in fiction from The New School. Originally from Los Angeles, she lives in Brooklyn, New York, where she is the managing editor and director of educational programming at One Story and the co-host of the reading series Ditmas Lit. *** 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?
0:02.0	Hello, everybody. Welcome to the show.
0:08.2	This is The Other People podcast. I'm Brad Listy, and I'm in Los Angeles.
0:12.7	It is good to be with you.
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0:32.9	Lena Valencia author of the debut story collection, Mystery Lights.
0:39.3	Lynch is like a big inspiration for me and he was definitely on my mind as I was working on
0:46.3	these stories.
0:48.3	I was really thinking about kind of the difference between what we're afraid of and what's
0:53.3	actually dangerous and kind of how that can
0:55.7	that can kind of twist and turn. And I was also just thinking about what it's like sometimes to,
1:03.3	you know, to move through the world as a woman where you're constantly thinking like,
1:09.4	was that, you know, was that, was that, was that,
1:11.1	was that, is this a dangerous situation or am I overreacting or am I being too angry or being too
1:16.0	weird or talking too loud? You know, these constant like this self, self doubt that I think
1:21.5	were maybe trained to have. Okay, that was Lena Valencia, author of the debut story collection, Mystery Lights,
1:31.9	available from Tin House. Mystery Lights is the official August pick of the Other People
1:36.9	Book Club. That is my book club. To sign up for the book club, visit other ppl.com slash book
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