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Otherppl with Brad Listi

Episode 297 — Cynthia Bond

Otherppl with Brad Listi

Brad Listi

Arts, Society & Culture, Books

4.8554 Ratings

🗓️ 23 July 2014

⏱️ 85 minutes

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Summary

Cynthia Bond is the guest. Her debut novel, Ruby, is now available from Hogarth Press.  Ruby is the official July selection of The TNB Book Club. Edwidge Danticat raves “Reading Cynthia Bond’s Ruby, you can’t help but feel that one day this book will be considered a staple of our literature, a classic. Lush, deep, momentous, much like the people and landscape it describes, Ruby enchants not just with its powerful tale of lifelong quests and unrelenting love, but also with its exquisite language. It is a treasure of a book, one you won’t soon forget.” And the Dallas Morning News says "In Ruby, Bond has created a heroine worthy of the great female protagonists of Toni Morrison…and Zora Neale Hurston… Bond’s style of writing is as magical as an East Texas sunrise, with phrases so deftly carved, the reader is often distracted from the brutality described by the sheer beauty of the language.” Monologue topics:  mail, war, peace, duality, mocking myself. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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

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I think it's really beautiful.

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