Episode 24 — Charles Shields

Otherppl with Brad Listi

Brad Listi

Arts, Society & Culture, Books

4.8 • 554 Ratings

🗓️ 7 December 2011

⏱️ 78 minutes

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Charles Shields is the guest. He's the author of And So It Goes — Kurt Vonnegut: A Life, now available in hardcover from Henry Holt. Shields is also the author of Mockingbird: A Portrait of Harper Lee, also available from ... Continue reading → Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Attention.
0:03.1	Attention.
0:04.0	Attention.
0:05.0	Rail travellers, platform paces, window gazers and armrest negotiators.
0:10.0	Have you heard?
0:12.0	The big railfare freeze is here.
0:14.0	Railfares have been frozen across England until March 2027 on standard class tickets,
0:20.0	including off-peak, anytime, and season tickets.
0:23.4	For more information, visit NationalRail.com.ukukes slash fares for ease.
0:28.3	Teas and season exclusions apply.
0:30.0	This episode of other people is brought to you by Algonquin Books, publisher of West of Here,
0:35.0	the latest novel from Jonathan Everson.
0:37.5	The New York Times book review calls West of Here, quote, riotously funny and wonderfully charming, end quote, and vanity fair calls it a booming big-hearted epic.
0:47.6	Algonquin is also the publisher of Panther Baby, the upcoming memoir from Jamal Joseph, which will publish in February 2012.
0:55.9	Panther Baby is Jamal Joseph's gripping account of his youth and his time in the Black Panthers.
1:01.1	This is a life that has taken extraordinary turns from the streets of Harlem to Rikers Island and Leavenworth prisons to the halls of Columbia, where Joseph is now the chair of the School of
1:12.4	the Arts Film Division. This is one of the most anticipated memoirs of 2012. Publishers Weekly calls
1:18.2	it spirited and well-honed, a clear-eyed casting back that reveals the streamlined fluid
1:23.9	quality of a fine storyteller. That's west of here by Jonathan Eveson and Panther Baby, coming soon from Jamal Joseph.
1:32.9	Both are available from Algonquin.
1:34.9	West of here, you can get it right now.
1:37.0	Panther Baby, you can pre-order at Amazon.
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