Episode 10 — Alexander Maksik
Otherppl with Brad Listi
Brad Listi
4.8 • 554 Ratings
🗓️ 19 October 2011
⏱️ 82 minutes
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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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