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Otherppl with Brad Listi

Episode 233 — Karolina Waclawiak

Otherppl with Brad Listi

Brad Listi

Arts, Society & Culture, Books

4.8554 Ratings

🗓️ 11 December 2013

⏱️ 81 minutes

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Summary

Karolina Waclawiak is the guest. Her debut novel, How to Get Into the Twin Palms, is now available from Two Dollar Radio. The New York Times Book Review says "Just as Anya reinvents herself, Waclawiak's novel (her first) reinvents the immigration story...At its most illuminating, How to Get Into the Twin Palms movingly portrays a protagonist intent on both creating and destroying herself, on burning brightly even as she goes up in smoke." And Publishers Weekly, in a starred review, calls it "A taut debut... [that] strikes with the creeping suddenness of a brush fire." Monologue topics: the dentist, cavities, flossing, contagions, demoralization, wheat, paranoia. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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That's the Litbreaker ad network,

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an ad network for the literary arts and culture web.

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

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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 friend in common every stupid thing that a writer could do

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i've done i think it's really beautiful jesus did it what a struggle you know it was incredible

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you know it's like your head exploded seeing what was really there and now here's your host

1:25.5

brad listing just one person at just one time.

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Right. Okay, everybody, here we go again. This is it. This is other people. This is about getting

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the words in the right order. This is a subtle transfer of human energy. Thank you for listening.

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It's nice to be with you. My name is Brad Listy. I'm in Los Angeles. And I have just dropped suddenly into a defensive

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crouch. That was a bad. I don't know. That didn't work. That's actually not true. But I thought

1:54.5

it might be funny to say that. I actually prepared that. And whenever I prepare something,

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