972. S. A. Cosby

Otherppl with Brad Listi

Brad Listi

Books, Arts, Society & Culture

4.8 • 555 Ratings

🗓️ 17 June 2025

⏱️ 77 minutes

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S. A. Cosby is the author of the novel King of Ashes, available from Flatiron Books. Cosby is a New York Times bestselling writer from southeastern Virginia. He is the author of All the Sinners Bleed, which was on more than forty Best of the Year lists, including Barack Obama’s, as well as Edgar Award finalist Razorblade Tears and Los Angeles Times Book Prize winner Blacktop Wasteland. He has also won the Anthony Award, ITW Thriller Award, Barry Award, Macavity Award, BCALA Award, and Audie Award and has been longlisted for the ALA Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence. *** ⁠⁠⁠⁠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 ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Bluesky⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Email the show: letters [at] otherppl [dot] com The podcast is an ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠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 Other People Show, a weekly podcast featuring in-depth interviews with today's leading writers.
0:14.3	I'm Brad Listy here in Los Angeles. This is my podcast. Welcome to it. Hope you're okay. Hope you're hanging in there. Hope you're
0:22.9	hanging on wherever you happen to be. Don't forget to hit the subscribe button wherever you listen.
0:28.2	You can also subscribe on YouTube and you can follow me on Blue Sky and Instagram.
0:37.9	So I'm very excited today to welcome S.A. Cosby onto the show for the first time.
0:45.9	He is celebrating the publication of a new novel called King of Ashes, available from Flatiron Books.
0:53.1	S.A. Cosby is one of our finest writers of crime fiction.
0:58.2	King of Ashes is a Southern crime epic and a riveting thriller.
1:03.9	I loved it, and I had a wonderful conversation with S.A. Cosby.
1:08.9	Can't wait to share it with you. It's coming up momentarily. A reminder before we get
1:13.9	going that I have a weekly email newsletter. I would love it if you signed up over at bradlisty.substack.com
1:20.5	and I have a new company in the works. I've been talking about it. It's called Deepdive and it
1:25.8	specializes in the creation of educational audio.
1:29.8	The debut course from Deepdive is going to be launching soon. The company is going to be launching
1:35.3	soon. And the debut course is called How to Write a Novel. It features more than 50 hours of
1:41.6	instruction from dozens of today's leading writers,
1:45.5	including Emily St. John Mandel, Todd Goldberg, Melissa Broder,
1:50.8	Madeline Lucas, Vivigana, Shannanthinport, Chista Hakpur,
1:55.1	Matt Bell, Matthew Salasis, Hannah Petard, Lynn Steger Strong, Vahini Vara.
2:00.7	The list goes on.
2:02.6	It's an epic course in writing.
2:06.4	And it's coming soon from DeepDive.
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