Episode 140 — Rosie Schaap

Otherppl with Brad Listi

Brad Listi

Arts, Society & Culture, Books

4.8 • 554 Ratings

🗓️ 16 January 2013

⏱️ 82 minutes

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Summary

Rosie Schaap is the guest. She is a contributor to This American Life and npr.org, and she writes the monthly "Drink" column for The New York Times Magazine. Her memoir, Drinking With Men, will be published on January 24, 2013 by Riverhead Books. Kate Christensen raves "This book will be a classic. There is so much joy in this book! It’s a great, comforting, wonderful, funny, inspiring, moving memoir about community and belief and the immense redemptive powers of alcohol drunk properly." And Wendy McClure says "There are bar stories and there are coming-of-age stories. And then there is Rosie Schaap's thoughtful and funny chronicle that reminds us of all the drinks, dives, and deep conversations that helped make us who we are. This is a wise, engaging memoir." Monologue topics: beautiful people, staring, Los Angeles, DNA masterpieces, hand signals, safety words. 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.
1:07.4	You have found other people. You and I have a friend in common.
1:13.3	Every stupid thing that a writer could do I've done.
1:16.1	I think it's really beautiful.
1:17.8	What I struggle, you know?
1:20.1	It was incredible.
1:21.3	It looks like your head exploded, seeing what was really there.
1:24.5	And now here's your host, Brad Listing.
1:27.3	Just one person at just one time. Okay, everybody, here we go again. This is it. This is other people. This is a recording of my voice. This is book people in conversation about things that are often unrelated to books. Thanks for being here. It's good to be with you. What is happening? Well, just a little bit ago, I was across town.
1:45.9	I was having coffee with a friend of mine.
1:47.9	We were at a cafe.
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