959. Sanjena Sathian

Otherppl with Brad Listi

Brad Listi

Books, Society & Culture, Arts

4.8 • 556 Ratings

🗓️ 1 April 2025

⏱️ 88 minutes

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Sanjena Sathian is the author of the novel Goddess Complex, available from Penguin Press. Sathian is the author of the critically acclaimed novel Gold Diggers, which was named a Top 10 Best Book of 2021 by The Washington Post and longlisted for the Center for Fiction’s First Novel Prize. It won the Townsend Prize for Fiction. Her short fiction appears in The Best American Short Stories, The Atlantic, Conjunctions, One Story, Boulevard, and more. She’s written nonfiction for The New York Times, New York magazine, The Drift, The Yale Review, and NewYorker.com, among other outlets. She’s an alumna of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and has taught at Emory University, the University of Iowa, and Victoria University of Wellington in New Zealand. In spring 2025, she will serve as the Ferrol A. Sams Jr. Distinguished Chair of English at Mercer University. *** 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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0:31.3	Okay, here we are. Once again, this is The Other People Show. I'm Brad Listy. I'm your host. I'm in Los Angeles. How are you doing out there? Thank you for being here. I have a great episode for you today. My guest is Sunjana Suthian, author of the new novel, Goddess Complex. It is available from
0:58.1	Penguin Press. Goddess Complex is a darkly funny, wild, at times surprising novel about the
1:07.8	dilemmas of womanhood, procreation, pregnancy, and parenting. It manages to be both
1:15.3	a psychological thriller and a biting feminist satire. And I had a lot of fun meeting
1:23.4	Sanjana Suthian, who is making her debut here on The Other People Show. So that conversation is coming up
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