966. Honor Jones
Otherppl with Brad Listi
Brad Listi
4.8 • 556 Ratings
🗓️ 20 May 2025
⏱️ 60 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Okay, everybody, welcome to The Other People Show, a weekly podcast featuring in-depth interviews with today's leading writers. |
| 0:13.5 | I'm Brad Listy, and I'm in Los Angeles. It's great to be with you. Thank you very much for tuning in. |
| 0:19.1 | Please remember to hit the subscribe button wherever you get your shows. |
| 0:23.3 | You can also subscribe on YouTube, and you can follow me on Blue Sky and Instagram. |
| 0:30.6 | So today I will be in conversation with Honor Jones, who is celebrating the publication of her debut novel, Sleep. It is available now |
| 0:40.4 | from Riverhead Books. Sleep is a novel about motherhood and childhood and the cost of secrets |
| 0:48.8 | and the burden of love. I had a great conversation with Honor Jones who spoke with me from her |
| 0:57.6 | office at the Atlantic. That conversation is coming up in just a bit. Today's episode is brought to you |
| 1:05.6 | by Mulholland Books, publisher of the novel Buzzkill by J. Robert Lennon. Buzzkill is the official |
| 1:12.0 | may pick of the Other People Book Club. That is my book club. You can sign up for the Other People |
| 1:17.5 | Book Club over at OtherPPL.com. Get a new book delivered to your door every 30 days. |
| 1:23.5 | I interview book club authors on this program, and I will be in conversation with J. Robert Lennon talking about Buzzkill in the not too distant future. |
| 1:32.4 | So stay tuned for that. |
| 1:35.1 | One more time, the novel is called Buzzkill, the official may pick of the Other People Book Club by J. Robert Lennon, available from Mulholland Books. |
| 1:48.8 | So a reminder before we get going that I have a weekly email newsletter. You can sign up for it over |
| 1:54.5 | at bradlisty.substack.com. It's a great way to keep up with this show. I will let you know on a weekly basis about the latest episodes. I also share a list of links to things that I've been reading and finding interesting. So if that sounds good, head on over to Substack and sign up. I also want to give a quick plug to my new company. It is called DeepDive, and it will be launching soon. |
| 2:20.4 | DeepDive specializes in the creation of long-form educational audio courses, and the debut course from Deep Dive is called How to Write a Novel. |
| 2:30.3 | It will feature more than 50 hours of instruction from dozens of today's leading writers, |
| 2:35.6 | including Melissa Broder, Hannah Bittard, Emily St. John Mandel, Steve Allman, Matt Bell, Matthew |
| 2:41.2 | Salas, Stephen Graham Jones, Tiffany Clark Harrison, Porr, Chista Hockpur, Debel and Unferth, Juliet |
| 2:47.3 | Escoria, Madeline Lucas, Vivi Gane,onanthin, etc. There's never been a writing |
| 2:54.3 | course quite like this one in terms of its breadth and depth, and I'm very excited about it. |
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