Episode 168 — Scott Nadelson

Otherppl with Brad Listi

Brad Listi

Arts, Society & Culture, Books

4.8 • 554 Ratings

🗓️ 24 April 2013

⏱️ 77 minutes

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Summary

Scott Nadelson is the guest. His new memoir, The Next Scott Nadelson: A Life in Progress, is now available from Hawthorne Books. Kirkus calls it "Eloquent and universal." And The Portland Mercury says "It’s unusual to read a memoir built of short stories, but it works—instead of forcing a narrative arc onto his own life, as so many memoir writers do, Nadelson simply places these stories next to one another, allowing their edges to overlap, tugging the reader forward and backward in time. The results are funny, quietly compelling, and unflinchingly frank. Nadelson has built a golem out of paper and typeface." Monologue topics: my little sister's wedding, peer pressure, alcohol, the Cajun element. 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.
1:07.1	You have found other people. You and I have a friend in common.
1:13.1	Every stupid thing that a writer could do I've done.
1:15.9	I think it's really beautiful.
1:17.6	What I struggle, you know?
1:19.9	It was incredible.
1:21.1	You know, it's like your head exploded, seeing what was really there.
1:24.3	And now here's your host, Brad Listing.
1:27.1	Just one person at just one time. Right. Okay, you guys, here we go again. This is it. This is other people. This is a semi-constructive activity. This is a meeting of the minds. Thanks for tuning in. My name is Brad Listy. I'm here in Los Angeles. It's good to be with you. What's happening?
1:50.3	Well, I just spent about 20 minutes of my life engaged in a completely needless internal monologue.
1:53.2	I, like, preemptively condemned myself for not getting obnoxiously drunk at my little
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