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Otherppl with Brad Listi

Episode 10 — Alexander Maksik

Otherppl with Brad Listi

Brad Listi

Arts, Society & Culture, Books

4.8554 Ratings

🗓️ 19 October 2011

⏱️ 82 minutes

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Summary

Alexander Maksik is the guest.  An old buddy of mine, one of the original writers at The Nervous Breakdown, and a graduate of the Iowa Writers Workshop, where he was a Truman Capote Fellow. He's now the author of ... Continue reading → Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

This episode of other people is brought to you by Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, publisher of West of Here, the novel by Jonathan Eveson.

0:08.9

The New York Times calls West of Here riotously funny and wonderfully charming.

0:13.5

Vanity Fair calls it a booming big-hearted epic.

0:16.2

The Los Angeles Times calls it an enjoyable, meaty read, and the San Francisco Chronicle calls it a big booming ruckus of a novel.

0:25.4

Eveson is a tremendously gifted storyteller.

0:28.5

So what that means is that the San Francisco Chronicle and Vanity Fair both refer to West of Here as booming.

0:35.3

West of here is booming.

0:36.7

It's available now. Wherever books are sold from Algonquin, go here is booming. It's available now.

0:38.0

Wherever books are sold from Algonquin, go and get it.

0:41.3

It's a book.

0:42.1

You can read it.

0:43.2

Oh, my God.

0:46.0

You are not alone.

0:48.3

You have found other people.

0:51.8

You and I have a friend in common.

0:54.3

Every stupid thing that a writer could do I've done.

0:57.1

I think it's really beautiful.

0:58.8

Jesus, what a struggle, you know?

1:01.1

It was incredible.

1:02.3

It was like your head exploded, seeing what was really there.

1:05.5

And now here's your host, Brad Listy.

1:08.3

Just one person at just one time.

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