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Otherppl with Brad Listi

Episode 189 — Alina Simone

Otherppl with Brad Listi

Brad Listi

Arts, Society & Culture, Books

4.8554 Ratings

🗓️ 10 July 2013

⏱️ 78 minutes

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Summary

Alina Simone is the guest. Her debut novel, Note to Self, is now available from Faber & Faber. Sam Lipsyte says “People as multi-talented and skilled as Alina Simone, who sings beautifully, writes essays, and now foists upon us a truly funny and poignant novel, need to be stopped. And maybe they will be, but in the meantime, there is no harm in falling into the soulful voice of Simone's narrator, Anna, as she struggles with the end of numb, cubicled youth and the awkward beginnings of new life.” And Kirkus calls it “A remarkably assured debut . . . Wicked, witty.” Monologue topics: Fourth of July, the weird story of how my bad back was finally healed.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcript

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That's the Litbreaker ad network,

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an ad network for the literary arts and culture web.

0:51.6

Be sure to visit litbreaker.com for more information. It's an ad network for

0:56.5

smart, interesting, readerly people. Go and advertise on it. Oh my God. You are not alone.

1:07.3

You have found other people. You and I have a friend in common

1:12.9

Every stupid thing that a writer could do I've done

1:15.8

I think it's really beautiful

1:17.2

Jesus, you know, it was incredible

1:21.1

You know, it's like your head exploded

1:22.5

Seeing what was really there

1:23.9

And now here's your host, Brad Listing

1:26.9

Just one person at just one time.

1:29.5

Right.

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Okay, everybody, here we go again.

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