938. Kerry Howley

Otherppl with Brad Listi

Brad Listi

Arts, Society & Culture, Books

4.8 • 554 Ratings

🗓️ 3 September 2024

⏱️ 74 minutes

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Kerry Howley is the author of Bottoms Up and the Devil Laughs, now available in trade paperback from Vintage. Howley is a feature writer at New York magazine and the author of Thrown, a New York Times Editors' Choice and pick for best-of-the-year lists in Time, Salon, Slate, and many other venues. Her work has appeared in The Paris Review, Granta, Best American Sportswriting, The New York Times Magazine, and Harper's. A Lannan Foundation Fellow, she holds an MFA from the University of Iowa, where she was a professor at the celebrated Nonfiction Writing Program until joining New York. She lives in Los Angeles. *** 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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0:20.0	Hey, where is there? Hello, everybody. Welcome to the Other People podcast, a weekly program
0:31.1	featuring in-depth interviews with today's leading writers. I'm Brad Listy here in Los Angeles.
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0:55.1	So my guest today is Carrie Howley,
1:00.0	author of the book Bottoms Up and the Devil laughs.
1:05.4	What was interesting to me about the vastness of the deep state is how the deep state doesn't
1:10.3	even know itself, right?
1:11.9	Like, it's so large that no single mind can possibly understand all of it.
1:17.8	There's nobody at the top who like knows what's going on.
1:20.4	It's like it's like life or like nature.
1:23.6	Like it's so large and complex that there are pieces of it that are completely unknown to people at the very, very, very top.
1:33.3	And so I think that's kind of interesting. It's like this, it has these tentacles that no one can even see.
1:39.3	All right, that was Carrie Howley, author of Bottoms Up and the Devil Laughs,
1:45.6	now available in trade paperback from vintage.
1:49.6	Bottoms Up and The Devil Laughs was a New York Times top 10 best book of 2023.
1:56.8	It was also named one of the best books of that year by The New Yorker magazine, Vanity Fair, and The New Republic.
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