Alexandra Kleeman on Los Angeles, Filmmaking, Boredom, Adaptation, Todd Haynes, Writing, Idealism, Cynicism, Hamlet, Climate Change, and Public Breakdowns
Otherppl with Brad Listi
Brad Listi
4.8 • 554 Ratings
🗓️ 3 May 2024
⏱️ 27 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hey everybody, welcome to the program. This is The Other People Show, a weekly podcast featuring |
| 0:11.0 | in-depth interviews with today's leading writers. I am Brad Listy. I'm your host. I'm in Los Angeles. |
| 0:18.6 | Thank you for being here. |
| 0:31.0 | It's Friday, so I'm going to be doing a flashback episode, where I dig into the other people archives and share an outtake from an episode out of the past. Today, an outtake from episode 732, my conversation with author Alexandra Clemen. |
| 0:46.5 | It first aired on October 13th, 2021. |
| 0:53.1 | Alexandra Clemen is the author of the acclaimed novel Something New Under the Sun. |
| 0:59.8 | Her other books include a short story collection called Intimations and the debut novel, |
| 1:06.7 | You Two Can Have a Body Like Mine. |
| 1:09.9 | You Two Can Have a Body Like Mine was awarded the 2016 Bard Fiction Prize, |
| 1:16.6 | and it was a New York Times editor's choice. |
| 1:22.7 | Alexandra Clemen's fiction has been published in The New Yorker, |
| 1:26.1 | The Paris Review, Conjunctions, and |
| 1:30.5 | Guernica. She is an assistant professor at the new school. A flashback to episode 732 |
| 1:39.9 | is coming up momentarily. |
| 1:51.7 | Don't forget to sign up for my weekly email newsletter over at bradlisty.substack.com and if you want to join the other people Patreon community, I would appreciate that. |
| 1:57.9 | If you're a regular listener, check it out over at patreon.com slash other ppl pod. |
| 2:03.7 | Help keep this show going into the future. |
| 2:11.3 | All right. |
| 2:12.2 | So once again, today is Friday. |
| 2:15.4 | It's time for a flashback. |
| 2:17.9 | And I'm going to be sharing an outtake from episode 732, my conversation with Alexandra |
| 2:24.5 | Clemen. |
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