957. Sarah Chihaya

Otherppl with Brad Listi

Brad Listi

Books, Society & Culture, Arts

4.8 • 556 Ratings

🗓️ 18 March 2025

⏱️ 81 minutes

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Sarah Chihaya is the author of the memoir Bibliophobia, available from Random House. It is the official March 2025 pick of the Otherppl Book Club. Chihaya is a book critic, essayist, and editor. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Review of Books, The Nation, New York magazine, The Atlantic, andThe Yale Review, among other places, and she is the co-author of The Ferrante Letters: An Experiment in Collective Criticism. She has taught at Princeton University, New York University, and UC Berkeley. She is currently a contributing editor at Los Angeles Review of Books and lives in Brooklyn. *** 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	Okay, everybody, welcome to the program. This is the Other People Show. I'm Brad Listy.
0:11.0	This is my show. Thank you for being here. I appreciate it. And I hope you're doing all right.
0:17.0	Hope you're hanging in. Hope you're hanging on. White knuckling, reality.
0:23.9	My guest today is Sarah Chihaya.
0:27.7	She has a new memoir out called Bibliophobia.
0:30.8	It is available from Random House.
0:33.9	Bibliophobia is a book about books and reading.
0:37.3	It's about the love of books and the fear of books.
0:40.3	It's about family and friends.
0:42.3	And it is about Sarah's struggles with her mental health
0:45.3	and how those struggles, at least in part, set her on her course to write this book.
0:50.3	It is a beautiful and powerful memoir that will make you think about why you read books,
0:56.7	and in particular it will make you think about the books that you have read that have had the
1:01.0	biggest and most lasting impact upon you. It was really wonderful to meet Sarah Chihaya.
1:07.8	Bibliophobia is the official March Pick of the Other People book club. That is my book club.
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