Episode 149 — Terry Tempest Williams

Otherppl with Brad Listi

Brad Listi

Arts, Society & Culture, Books

4.8 • 554 Ratings

🗓️ 17 February 2013

⏱️ 93 minutes

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Summary

Terry Tempest Williams is the guest. She is the author of several books, including the environmental literature classic, Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place. Her latest book is called When Women Were Birds: Fifty-Four Variations on Voice. It was published in hardcover by Farrar, Straus, & Giroux in 2012, and the paperback edition is due out from Picador on February 26, 2013. Susan Salter Reynolds, writing for The Daily Beast, says "Williams is the kind of writer who makes a reader feel that [her] voice might also, one day, be heard….She cancels out isolation: Connections are woven as you sit in your chair reading---between you and the place you live, between you and other readers, you and the writer. Without knowing how it happened, your sense of home is deepened." And The San Francisco Chronicle raves "Williams displays a Whitmanesque embrace of the world and its contradictions....As the pages accumulate, her voice grows in majesty and power until it become a full-fledged aria." Monologue topics: media diet, news, minimum wage, operating, ambition, fear, power, nausea, juice, scams, beautiful crazy people. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:43.9	Just one person at just one time. Right. Okay, you guys, here we go again. This is it. This is other people. This is uploaded and then downloaded. This is recorded on a MacBook. Thank you for being here. My name is Brad Listy. I'm in Los Angeles, California. I'm a little under the weather. Can you hear it in my voice? but it is currently 80 degrees and sunny outside. It's gorgeous.
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