Hey everybody, how are you? Welcome to the program. This is the Other People Show. I am Brad

Listery here in Los Angeles. It's good to be with you. Don't forget to subscribe to this

podcast wherever you listen. You can also subscribe on YouTube. I have today another flashback episode for you. This from episode 506, my conversation

with Elif Boddaman, which first aired on February 28th, 2018. Elif Boddaman's first novel,

The Idiot, was a finalist for the Pilitzer Prize and

was shortlisted for the women's prize for fiction in the UK. When we spoke in 2018, she was

touring for that book. Elif is also the author of a novel called Either or, which was published

just last year. It was a New York Times notable book. She is also the author of a novel called Either or, which was published just last year. It was a New York Times

notable book. She is also the author of a book called The Possessed Adventures with Russian

Books and the people who read them, which was a finalist for a National Book Critic Circle Award in

criticism.

Elif Boddaman has been a staff writer at the New Yorker magazine since 2010.

So you're going to hear an outtake from my conversation with Elif Boddaman in 2018 in just a bit.

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So my guest today in this flashback episode is Elif Badaman.

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