Carmen Maria Machado on Anxiety, Death, Childhood, Sick Lit, Writing Letters, and Religion

Otherppl with Brad Listi

Brad Listi

Arts, Society & Culture, Books

4.8 • 554 Ratings

🗓️ 21 July 2023

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

In today's flashback, an outtake from Episode 491, my conversation with Carmen Maria Machado, author of the bestselling memoir In the Dream House. Machado's other books include the graphic novel The Low, Low Woods, and an award-winning short story collection called Her Body and Other Parties. She has been a finalist for the National Book Award and the winner of the Bard Fiction Prize, the Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Fiction, the Lambda Literary Award for LGBTQ Nonfiction, the Brooklyn Public Library Literature Prize, the Shirley Jackson Award, and the National Book Critics Circle's John Leonard Prize. Air date: November 8, 2017. *** A SPECIAL OFFER for Otherppl listeners! Use the offer code SUMMERSCHOOL and get 10% off of all summer writing workshops at https://www.chillsubs.com/writeordie/education *** 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, Google Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher, iHeart Radio, etc. Subscribe to Brad Listi’s email newsletter. Support the show on Patreon Merch @otherppl Instagram YouTube 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, folks, welcome to the program.
0:06.3	This is The Other People Show.
0:07.6	I am Brad Listy here in Los Angeles.
0:09.8	It is good to be with you.
0:11.3	I hope you're doing okay, wherever you are.
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0:18.5	Follow the show on social media, TikTok, Instagram, and Twitter.
0:23.2	It is Friday. So it is time for another flashback episode. I am digging into the other people
0:29.7	archive and I'm sharing with you a selection from episode 491, which first aired on November 8th, 2017,
0:39.3	my conversation with author Carmen Maria Machado.
0:43.3	Carmen Maria Machado is one of the most decorated young authors in American letters.
0:49.3	She has been a finalist for the National Book Award, and she has won a slew of awards,
0:55.7	including the Bard Fiction Prize,
0:58.0	the Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Fiction,
1:00.9	the Lambda Literary Award for LGBTQ Nonfiction,
1:05.4	the Shirley Jackson Award,
1:07.4	and the National Book Critic Circle's
1:09.6	John Leonard Prize, among others.
1:13.1	Carmen Maria Machado is the author of the best-selling memoir entitled In the Dream House.
1:18.0	If you haven't read it yet, you really should.
1:20.2	It is riveting.
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