Episode 269 — Labor Day Special

Otherppl with Brad Listi

Brad Listi

Arts, Society & Culture, Books

4.8 • 554 Ratings

🗓️ 16 April 2014

⏱️ 114 minutes

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Summary

Today's show features conversations with multiple authors, all of whom have contributed to a new anthology entitled Labor Day: True Birth Stories by Today's Best Women Writers. Guests include the anthology's editors, Eleanor Henderson and Anna Solomon, as well as Amy Brill, Arielle Greenberg, Cristina Henriquez, Heidi Julavits, Jane Roper, Rachel Jamison Webster, Sarah Jefferis, and Sarah Strickley. Booklist says "This isn’t a how-to book, nor does it present a case for the ‘perfect birth,’ which sets it apart from the plethora of childbirth manuals and lends it broader appeal and a very different type of resonance." And Emma Straub says "Pregnancy made my body ravenous for food and my brain ravenous for stories like this, stories of how other women had crossed the great divide. In delivery rooms, in the backseats of cars, and at home, these women tell their birth stories so clearly that they must have had stenographers present on the scene. I loved reading this book with my baby asleep in the next room, and will give it to every pregnant woman I know from here on out, forever." Monologue topics: Labor Day, hard work, parenthood. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:27.2	was really there and now here's your host, Brad Listy. Just one person at just one time. Right. Okay, everybody, here we go again. This is it. This is other people. This is a podcast created in Los Angeles, California. This was born in 2011. Hi there. How are you? What's going on where you are?
1:46.1	It's nice to be with you.
1:47.0	I'm Brad Listy.
1:47.9	I'm sitting here in California.
1:49.2	I've got a very interesting show for you today.
1:52.5	An unprecedented episode in the history of this program.
1:56.4	And certainly one of the more editorially intensive shows that I've ever done.
2:03.1	Actually, I think it's the most labor-intensive production that I've ever undertaken.
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