Atticus Lish on Book Reviews, Expectations, Isolation, Chinese, New York, Family, Drawing, Phillips Exeter, and Don DeLillo

Otherppl with Brad Listi

Brad Listi

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4.8 • 554 Ratings

🗓️ 19 January 2024

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

In today's flashback, an outtake from Episode 331, my conversation with Atticus Lish. It first aired on November 19, 2014. Lish is the author of the novel The War for Gloria, published in 2022 by Vintage, and the debut novel Preparation for the Next Life, which won the 2015 Pen/Faulkner Award for Fiction and the 2016 Grand Prix de Littérature Américaine. *** Otherppl with Brad Listi is a weekly literary 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 @otherppl Instagram TikTok 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, everybody. Welcome to The Other People Show. My name's Brad Listy. I'm here in Los Angeles. It's good to be with you.
0:08.5	Hope you're doing okay. Wherever you happen to be. It is Friday, so it is time for another flashback episode where I dig into the other people archives and share an outtake from an episode from the past.
0:23.5	Today I'm going to be sharing an outtake from episode 331, my conversation with author Atticus
0:30.5	Lish.
0:31.7	His most recent novel is called The War for Gloria, available from vintage vintage and his debut novel is called
0:40.8	Preparation for the next life it won the 2015 Penn Faulkner Award and the
0:47.3	2016 Grand Prix de littreuteur American I know how to say that because I've been studying French with my Duolingo app.
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1:44.9	So it makes for a holistic and enjoyable literary experience.
1:52.8	Today's episode is brought to you by Tin House, publisher of the novel,
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