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Otherppl with Brad Listi

Episode 128 — Lydia Millet

Otherppl with Brad Listi

Brad Listi

Arts, Society & Culture, Books

4.8554 Ratings

🗓️ 5 December 2012

⏱️ 76 minutes

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Summary

Lydia Millet is the guest. She is a Guggenheim fellow, a past recipient of the PEN-USA Award for Fiction, and her story collection, Love in Infant Monkeys (2009), was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize.  Her latest novel, Magnificence, is now available in hardcover from W.W. Norton and Company. Jonathan Lethem raves “[Magnificence is] elegant, darkly comic. . . with overtones variously of Muriel Spark, Edward Gorey and JG Ballard, full of contemporary wit and devilish fateful turns for her characters, and then also to knit together into a tapestry of vast implication and ethical urgency, something as large as any writer could attempt: a kind of allegorical elegy for life on a dying planet. Ours, that is.” And Salon calls it "Flawlessly beautiful." Monologue topics:  chest colds, tuberculosis, the consumption, agent, manuscript, uncertainty, reading, the concept of "good" art, self-perception. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Go get Magnificence, the new novel by today's guest, Lydia Millett.

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And hey, just about any book at Audible can be yours free of charge and if you do

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this if you get the freebie it helps the program I get a few nickels that is enjoyable

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to download your free audio book just go to audible trial.com slash other people again

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that's audible trial.com slash other people this is is a great deal. It is available right now. These are books.

0:58.4

You can listen to them. Go and get them. Oh, my God.

1:04.4

You are not alone. You have found other people.

1:10.3

You and I have a friend in common.

1:12.8

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

1:15.6

I think it's really beautiful.

1:17.3

Jesus, what I struggle, you know?

1:19.6

It was incredible.

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You know, it was like your head exploded, seeing what was really there.

1:24.0

And now here's your host, Brad Listing.

1:26.8

Just one person at just one time. Okay, everybody, here we go again. This is it. This is other people. This is me in my apartment. This is you, wherever you happen to be. Thank you for being here. My name is Brad Listy. I'm your host. And I'm still battling a chess cold. It is officially at this point the worst chest cold that I have

1:45.0

ever had in my entire life. And I would be deeply concerned about my life. I would be concerned

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