Episode 170 — Emily Rapp

Otherppl with Brad Listi

Brad Listi

Arts, Society & Culture, Books

4.8 • 554 Ratings

🗓️ 1 May 2013

⏱️ 77 minutes

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Summary

Emily Rapp is the guest. Her new memoir, The Still Point of the Turning World, is now available from Penguin. Cheryl Strayed says "The Still Point of the Turning World is about the smallest things and the biggest things, the ugliest things and the most beautiful things, the darkest things and the brightest things, but most of all it’s about one very important thing: the way a woman loves a boy who will soon die. Emily Rapp didn’t want to tell us this story. She had to. That necessity is evident in every word of this intelligent, ferocious, grace-filled, gritty, astonishing starlight of a book." And Kirkus, in a starred review, calls it "A beautiful, searing exploration of the landscape of grief and a profound meditation on the meaning of life." Monologue topics: wedding, Chicago, sobriety, alcohol, 5-Hour Energy, Tay-Sachs, NTSAD.org Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:29.8	Hey everybody.
0:30.7	This episode of other people is sponsored by other voices Kerataro.
0:35.4	I think that's how you pronounce it.
0:36.9	Keterato. Kue E, R-E-T-A-R-O. It's a city in Mexico.
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0:50.8	It focuses on both fiction and creative nonfiction, as well as the ins and outs of contemporary publishing.
0:57.2	The program was co-launched by Gina Frangelo and Stacey Beerline, longstanding business partners editing Other Voices Magazine and other voices books, which is now an imprint of DeZank books.
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