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Otherppl with Brad Listi

Episode 166 — Rob Roberge

Otherppl with Brad Listi

Brad Listi

Arts, Society & Culture, Books

4.8554 Ratings

🗓️ 17 April 2013

⏱️ 85 minutes

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Summary

Rob Roberge is the guest. His new novel, The Cost of Living, is now available from Other Voices Books. It is the April selection of the TNB Book Club. Cheryl Strayed says "Roberge’s writing is both drop-dead gorgeous and mindbendingly smart. The Cost of Living is an intimate, original, important novel that I’ll be recommending for years to come." And Scott Shriner, bass player for Weezer, says "This is a guy who clearly knows his way around a tour bus. And around a massive drug habit. A dark, funny, frightening, and above all authentic book about the toll the rock and roll lifestyle can take." Monologue topics: Boston, terrorism, tragedy, talking about speechlessness, confusion, darkness, realism, pragmatism, idealism. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Attention.

0:03.1

Attention.

0:04.0

Attention.

0:05.0

Rail travellers, platform paces, window gazers and armrest negotiators.

0:10.0

Have you heard?

0:12.0

The big railfare freeze is here.

0:14.0

Railfares have been frozen across England until March 2027 on standard class tickets,

0:20.0

including off-peak, anytime, and season tickets.

0:23.4

For more information, visit nationalrail.com.ukuk slash fares for ease.

0:28.3

Teas and season exclusions apply.

0:30.3

There once was a woman who lived in a shoe.

0:33.0

A size too snug, but what could she do?

0:35.9

But that's not where her story ends. Thanks to a little help from her Experian friends,

0:40.3

she got her score into much better shape

0:42.3

and relocated to a box fresh new place

0:45.3

with room to grow and a mortgage to suit.

0:48.3

Now, she lives in a spacious four bedroom cowboy boots.

0:52.3

Better your Experian credit score to help get mortgage ready. Experian. Better your score. Better your story. Hey, everybody. This episode of other people is sponsored by other voices, Keratoro. I think that's how you pronounce it. Kertaro. K-U-E-R-E-T-A-R-O. It's a city in Mexico, and other voices Ketotaro is a vibrant,

1:15.3

multifaceted writing program set, you guessed it, in Keterato, Mexico. It focuses on both fiction

1:22.6

and creative non-fiction, as well as the ins and outs of contemporary publishing. The program was co-launched by Gina Frangelo and Stacey Beerline,

1:31.2

longstanding business partners editing Other Voices magazine and Other Voices Books,

1:36.4

which is now an imprint of DeZank Books.

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