This episode of other people is brought to you by Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, publisher of the novel Exley by Brock Clark.

Exley is a book about a little boy in search of his father, a father who may or may not have gone off to Iraq to fight in the war.

The boy is also in search of Frederick Exley, the author of A Fan's Notes.

In a starred review, Kirkus says another literary high-wire performance by a novelist who is

establishing himself as a unique voice in contemporary fiction.

That's Exley by Brock Clark.

It's available now from Algonquin.

It's a book.

You can read it. Go and get it. It's a book. You can read it.

Go and get it.

Oh, my God.

You are not alone.

You have found other people.

You and I have a friend in common.

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

I think it's really beautiful. Gee, they did it I struggle, you know? It was incredible. You know, it's like your head exploded, seeing what was really there. And now here's your host, Brad Listy. Just one person at just one time. Right. All right, everybody. Here we go again. This is it. This is other people. My name is Brad Listy. Thank you very much for being here and tuning into the program. I really appreciate it. The guest today is Megan Boyle. Megan is the author of a new debut poetry collection called Selected unpublished blog posts of a Mexican Panda Express employee. Selected unpublished blog posts of a Mexican Panda Express employee. Selected unpublished blog posts of a Mexican Panda Express

employee. It is available from Mumu House, M-U-M-U-U-U-House, as of November 15th. This is a book of

poetry for which I was sent a galley a few weeks ago. And I read it. And I've actually

discussed this on a previous episode of this podcast. It struck me. And there's something about

this book, the unguardedness of it, the unscriptedness of it, the rawness of the language,

the sort of nakedness of the emotional content in the book, and also the humor. It's a funny book. It makes you sort of wince and laugh at the same time, which I tend to enjoy. And, you know, it's a book that makes you think about how the book was written. What is this thing? That's what I was thinking as I was reading it. And I kept turning the pages.

So it just struck me.

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