Episode 131 — Ned Vizzini

Otherppl with Brad Listi

Brad Listi

Arts, Society & Culture, Books

4.8 • 554 Ratings

🗓️ 16 December 2012

⏱️ 93 minutes

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Summary

Ned Vizzini is today's guest. He is the award-winning author of It's Kind of a Funny Story (also a major motion picture), Be More Chill, and Teen Angst? Naaah.... In television, he has written for MTV and ABC. His essays and criticism have appeared in The New York Times, The Daily Beast, and Salon. He is the co-author, with Chris Columbus, of the fantasy-adventure series House of Secrets, due out in April 2013. And his latest novel, The Other Normals, is now availalbe from Balzer & Bray. Lev Grossman raves "The Other Normals is wildly imaginative, incredibly funny, and weirdly wise. I don’t know where Vizzini gets this stuff —it’s like he’s tapped into the collective unconscious of alienated adolescents everywhere." And Kirkus says "With a deft sense of humor and a keen ear for funny and realistic teen dialogue, Vizzini explores one teen everyman’s quest to become a hero, one roll of the six-sided die at a time …. Great geeky fun." Monologue topics: flu, mail, doubt, self-sabotage, cannabis. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:56.5	smart, interesting, readerly people. Go and advertise on it. Oh my God. You are not alone.
1:07.2	You have found other people. You and I have a friend in common.
1:13.2	Every stupid thing that a writer could do I've done.
1:16.0	I think it's really beautiful.
1:17.6	Jesus, what I struggle, you know?
1:20.0	It was incredible.
1:21.2	It was like your head exploded, seeing what was really there.
1:24.4	And now here's your host, Brad Listing.
1:27.2	Just one person at just one time. Right. Okay, everybody, here we go again. This is it. This is other people. This is writers talking about writing. This is writers talking about other stuff, too. It's good to be with you. Thanks for being here. My name is Brad Listy. I'm in Los Angeles, California. I'm feeling well. My cold, my bout with the flu has now
1:46.3	ended, and I'm currently on the rebound. So my spirits are on the rise and my malaise
1:53.1	appears to be dissipating. So I figured I would start today with some mail. And thanks as always to
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