978. Megan Abbott

Otherppl with Brad Listi

Brad Listi

Books, Arts, Society & Culture

4.8 • 555 Ratings

🗓️ 22 July 2025

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Megan Abbott is the author of the novel El Dorado Drive, available from G. P. Putnam's Sons. Abbott is the Edgar award-winning author of eleven crime novels, including You Will Know Me, Give Me Your Hand and the New York Times bestseller The Turnout, the winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. She received her Ph.D. in English and American literature from New York University and her writing has appeared in the New York Times, the Guardian, the Paris Review and the Wall Street Journal. Dare Me, the series she adapted from her own novel, now streaming on Netflix. Her latest novel, Beware the Woman, is now in paperback. *** ⁠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	Okay, welcome to the program. This is the other people show a weekly podcast featuring in-depth interviews with today's leading writers.
0:15.8	I am Brad Listy, and I'm in Los Angeles. It's great to be with you.
0:19.6	Hope you're hanging on out there wherever you happen to be, maintaining your tenuous grip on sanity.
0:26.3	I'm going to be talking with Megan Abbott today. She is one of our foremost writers of crime fiction, and she is returning to this show after, I think, more than a decade.
0:38.2	This is her second appearance on The Other People's show, and yeah, it was a while ago.
0:43.7	I feel like she's really taken off in the years since we last talked, and she's got a new novel out called El Dorado Drive.
0:51.8	It is available from Putnam.
0:53.9	It is a superb work of crime
0:56.2	fiction set in Gross Point, Michigan, the suburb of Detroit in which Megan Abbott was raised.
1:04.1	I believe this is the first time she's ever really written into that place. And it takes
1:09.8	place in the 1980s.
1:11.5	I think I have my head on straight.
1:13.7	Right around then, during the decline of the auto industry.
1:17.8	And it's a story about sisters and pyramid schemes and horse girls and gin and tonic and murder.
1:26.4	Megan Abbott is masterly at creating mood and atmosphere on the page, and she has had success
1:34.0	over the years in adapting her work for the screen, film and television stuff.
1:40.5	You're going to hear us talk about all of the above in just a couple of minutes.
1:45.3	Today's episode is brought to you by Tin House, publisher of the novel, Wanting, the acclaimed
1:50.9	debut by Claire Gia.
1:53.3	Wanting is the official July pick of my book club, the Other People Book Club.
1:58.0	You should join the Other People Book Club.
2:00.2	I'm just saying you can do that at
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