960. Sonya Walger

Otherppl with Brad Listi

Brad Listi

Books, Society & Culture, Arts

4.8 • 556 Ratings

🗓️ 8 April 2025

⏱️ 90 minutes

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Summary

Sonya Walger is the author of the debut novel Lion, available from New York Review Books. Walger is a British-American actress, writer and podcaster. Walger began her career as a film and television actress in 1998 and is perhaps best known for her role as Penny Widmore in the ABC series Lost and later for starring as Molly Cobb in the Apple TV+ original For All Mankind. A student of English literature at Christ Church College at the University of Oxford and host of the literature podcast bookish, Walger is a long-time literary enthusiast whose debut novel Lion is a work of autofiction about her relationship with her father. *** 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

Transcript

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0:00.0	All right. Welcome to the show. This is the Other People podcast. I'm Brad Listy. I'm your host. I'm in Los Angeles. And it's good to be with you. I appreciate you tuning in. I hope you're doing all right. Hope you're hanging on wherever you happen to be.
0:23.5	I have a great episode for you today. My guest is Sonia Walger. Her debut novel is called Lion,
0:30.9	and it's available from New York Review Books. I loved Lion. Loved it. It's a great novel, great debut, incredibly impressive.
0:43.0	Sonia Walger is also an actress. She was on that show Lost. She's done a bunch of stuff.
0:49.7	But she also happens to be a fabulous novelist, so it's an embarrassment of riches.
0:58.0	And I'm excited to share that conversation momentarily.
1:01.3	I don't know if you can hear it in my voice, but it's been busy.
1:02.6	There's been a lot going on.
1:05.7	I feel like I've been in a whirlwind.
1:06.9	There was AWP.
1:08.5	Steve Allman was here.
1:11.0	Many of you will know him.
1:12.6	He's guested on this show many times.
1:13.4	He's a great writer.
1:15.0	And he came through town.
1:15.8	He stayed with me.
1:16.7	We talked.
1:18.7	We hung out and bonded.
1:19.9	We had some man time.
1:21.2	We had dinner.
1:22.3	Just the two of us.
1:25.9	We shared our feelings.
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