951. Heather O'Neill

Otherppl with Brad Listi

Brad Listi

Arts, Books, Society & Culture

4.8 • 556 Ratings

🗓️ 28 January 2025

⏱️ 77 minutes

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Heather O'Neill is the author of the novel The Capital of Dreams, available from Harper Books. It is the official January pick of the Otherppl Book Club. O'Neill is a novelist, short-story writer, and essayist. Her previous works include When We Lost Our Heads, which was a #1 national bestseller and a finalist for the Grand Prix du Livre de Montréal; The Lonely Hearts Hotel, which won the Paragraphe Hugh MacLennan Prize for Fiction and was longlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction and CBC’s Canada Reads; and Lullabies for Little Criminals, The Girl Who Was Saturday Night, and Daydreams of Angels, which were shortlisted for the Governor General’s Literary Award for Fiction, the Orange Prize for Fiction, and the Scotiabank Giller Prize two years in a row. O’Neill has also won CBC’s Canada Reads and the Danuta Gleed Award. Born and raised in Montreal, she lives there today. *** 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?
0:01.8	I'm on.
0:03.0	Okay, everybody.
0:06.9	Welcome to the Other People Show, a weekly podcast featuring in-depth interviews with today's leading writers.
0:13.8	I'm Brad Listy and I'm in Los Angeles.
0:16.1	It's nice to be talking to you.
0:18.7	Hope you're doing okay out there wherever you happen to be. Be sure to
0:22.5	subscribe to this podcast wherever you listen. You can also subscribe on YouTube. Follow me on social
0:28.3	media, blue sky and Instagram, maybe TikTok. It's hard to know. Is TikTok still alive? Did they kill it?
0:35.8	Did they resuscitate it? I think it's back online. I got to admit I was kind of relieved when it went away. I was like, okay, I don't have to think about TikTok anymore. I don't have to consider it. And then I went over to blue sky and I saw people like expressing like grief that TikTok had been killed.
0:58.2	And I felt alienated.
1:00.8	I could not relate.
1:04.9	I'm going to be talking with Heather O'Neill today.
1:08.3	She has a new novel out called The Capital of Dreams, available from
1:13.0	Harper Books. And it is the official January pick of my book club, the Other People book club.
1:19.5	If you want to join my book club, you can do that at other ppl.com. Get a new book delivered
1:25.3	to your door every 30 days. I interview book club authors here on the show.
1:30.1	And today I'm going to be talking with Heather about her new novel, The Capital of Dreams,
1:34.7	a dystopian fairy tale. It's about a young girl coming of age in a war-torn country.
1:42.9	It is a very vivid work of the imagination,
1:46.7	but it is also a book that speaks to our present reality
1:50.6	in increasingly haunting ways.
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