943. Mark Haddon

Otherppl with Brad Listi

Brad Listi

Books, Society & Culture, Arts

4.8 • 554 Ratings

🗓️ 22 October 2024

⏱️ 75 minutes

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Mark Haddon is the author of the story collection Dogs and Monsters, available from Doubleday. It is the official October pick of the Otherppl Book Club. Haddon is the author of the novels The Porpoise, The Red House and A Spot of Bother, as well as the short story collection, The Pier Falls. His novel The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time won the Whitbread Book of the Year Award and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for First Fiction and is the basis for the Tony Award-winning play. He is the author of a collection of poetry, The Talking Horse and the Sad Girl and the Village Under the Sea, has written and illustrated numerous children's books, and has won awards for both his radio dramas and his television screenplays. He teaches creative writing for the Arvon Foundation and lives in Oxford, England. *** 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	I'm on.
0:03.0	Hi, everybody.
0:07.1	Welcome to The Other People Show, a weekly program featuring in-depth interviews with today's leading writers.
0:13.3	I'm Brad Listy.
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0:36.5	So my guest today is Mark Haddon, author of a new story collection called Dogs and Monsters.
0:45.3	I think more generally what I really like is bodies.
0:50.3	I like stories which exist both in rooms and houses and in places and in physical bodies.
0:59.0	When I read literature which is mostly conversation, which is ideas, people talking and thinking,
1:07.0	it seems to drift free of reality for me. I want it anchored. And I love the fact that
1:13.3	the human body is both the thing that makes our lives possible and yet the thing which
1:20.8	traps us at the same time. It's both a vehicle and a prison cell at the same time.
1:27.3	All right, that was Mark Haddon, author of a new story. It's both a vehicle and a prison cell at the same time.
1:36.1	All right, that was Mark Haddon, author of a new story collection called Dogs and Monsters, available now from Doubleday.
1:41.9	Dogs and Monsters is the official October pick of the Other People Book Club.
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