Episode 252 — Nina McConigley

Otherppl with Brad Listi

Brad Listi

Arts, Society & Culture, Books

4.8 • 554 Ratings

🗓️ 16 February 2014

⏱️ 75 minutes

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Summary

Nina McConigley is the guest. Her debut story collection, Cowboys and East Indians, is now available from FiveChapters Books. Antonya Nelson says “What I love about this collection of stories is its wit and warmth. McConigley’s characters are “the wrong kind of Indians living in Wyoming,” and their struggles as exoticized and denigrated community members could be, in a less interesting writer’s hands, yet another scolding tract on America’s guilty conscience. Instead, this book celebrates human pluck and humor, a new sensibility for a new time, when everyone is both at home and utterly alien in the contemporary American west. A terrific read.” And Eleanor Henderson raves “Nina McConigley crafts out of the Wyoming landscape a West few readers have known before–a place where, when you don’t look like everyone else, there aren’t many places to hide. And yet anyone who has ever felt a complicated kind of love for home, country, and family will find pleasure and wisdom in these stunning stories.” Monologue topics: Valentine's Day, hatred of holidays, Presidents Day, love. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:40.3	Oh, my God.
0:43.2	You are not alone.
0:45.5	You have found other people.
0:49.0	You and I have a friend in common.
0:51.5	Every stupid thing that a writer could do I've done.
1:11.1	I think it's really beautiful. Jesus, did it what I 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 Listing. Just one person at just one time. Right. Okay, everybody, here we go again. This is it. This is other people.
1:13.5	This is me trying to get something across to you.
1:30.5	This is not, to the best of my knowledge, something that Jonathan Franzen listens to while bird watching. Thanks for tuning in. I'm Brad Listie here in Los Angeles. It's good to be with you. My guest today is Nina McConaugley. her debut story collection, Cowboys and East Indians, is available now from five chapters books.
1:30.6	I'm going to be talking with Nina in just a moment.
1:33.4	So please get ready for that.
1:34.6	Do some light stretching, whatever it is you need to do to prepare.
1:38.8	Otherwise, I hope you had a nice Valentine's Day, which is to say,
1:46.4	I hope you didn't pay any attention to it.
1:48.4	I hope you didn't realize that it happened.
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