This episode of other people is brought to you by $2.00 Radio, publisher of The Visiting Suit,

stories from my prison life by Jioda Zhao. A native of China, when Zhao was 20 years old, he tore a poster of

Chairman Mao while inebriated. Several months later, he was arrested in order to fulfill an absurd quota

and without trial declared a counter-revolutionary.

He was sent to a labor prison on an island in Taihu Lake where he worked in a stone quarry.

The visiting suit chronicles his arrest through his release from the labor prison five years later.

Scott Spencer says, quote,

Jodizhou has made a stark and unforgettable contribution to the literature of imprisonment and survival, end quote,

and book forum calls him a masterful storyteller.

That's the visiting suit by Jodizhou.

It's available from $2.00 radio.

It's a book.

You can read it.

Go and get it.

Oh, my God.

You are not alone. You have found other people.

You and I have a friend in common.

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

I think it's really beautiful.

What a struggle, you know? It was incredible. You know, it was like your head exploded, seeing what was really there. And now here's your host, Brad Listy. Just one person at just one time. Right, right. All right, everybody. Here we go again. This is it. This is other people. I'm Brad Listy. Thank you very much for tuning into the program i'm going to be talking with elisa chapelle today she is the author of the story collection

use me available from william morrow it was a finalist for the pen hemingway award and now most

recently she is the author of blueprints for building better girls. That's a collection available from Simon and Schuster.

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