967. J. Robert Lennon

Otherppl with Brad Listi

Brad Listi

Arts, Books, Society & Culture

4.8 • 556 Ratings

🗓️ 25 May 2025

⏱️ 76 minutes

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J. Robert Lennon is the author of the novel Buzz Kill, available from Mulholland Books. It is the official May pick of the Otherppl Book Club. Lennon is the author of two story collections, Pieces For The Left Hand and See You in Paradise, and eight novels, including Mailman, Castle, Familiar, Broken River, and most recently, Hard Girls. He holds an MFA from the University of Montana, and has published short fiction in The New Yorker, Harper's, Playboy, Granta, The Paris Review, Electric Literature, and elsewhere. He has been anthologized in Best American Short Stories, Best American Nonrequired Reading, and Prize Stories: The O. Henry Awards. His book reviews have appeared in The New York Times Book Review, The Guardian, and The London Review of Books, and he lives in Ithaca, New York, where he teaches writing at Cornell 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 ⁠⁠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	All right, welcome to the program.
0:08.0	This is The Other People Show, a weekly podcast featuring in-depth interviews with today's leading writers.
0:14.1	I'm Brad Lestey here in Los Angeles.
0:16.8	Hope it's going okay out there.
0:18.3	Thank you for tuning in.
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0:21.3	button wherever you listen. You can also subscribe on YouTube and you can follow me on Blue Sky and
0:28.7	Instagram. So my guest today is Jay Robert Lennon. He has a new novel out called Buzzkill, available from Mulholland Books.
0:40.5	Buzzkill is the official may pick of my book club, the Other People Book Club. If you want to sign up for the
0:46.8	Other People Book Club, I would love that. You can do so over at other ppl.com. Get a new book delivered
0:53.9	to your door every 30 days.
0:56.3	I interview book club authors on this program.
1:01.6	So Buzzkill is a crime novel.
1:04.1	It's a thriller.
1:05.0	It's a family story.
1:06.3	It's about the Poole Sisters.
1:08.5	They are private investigators and they find themselves in contact with a nefarious
1:15.8	drug underworld with ties to fascist political pursuits.
1:21.7	That's kind of the backdrop.
1:24.4	So a fun and riveting novel, and I'm very pleased to welcome Jay Robert Lennon back onto this show for a second time.
1:33.4	He's one of the more versatile writers out there.
1:38.1	He can do a lot of different things, and you'll hear us discuss that.
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