Episode 303 — Tim O'Connell

Otherppl with Brad Listi

Brad Listi

Arts, Society & Culture, Books

4.8 • 554 Ratings

🗓️ 13 August 2014

⏱️ 78 minutes

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Tim O'Connell is the guest. He is an editor at Vintage, Anchor, Knopf, and Pantheon. Monologue topics: death, the old man who died, DMT, Tao Lin, Terence McKenna, psychedelic crocodiles who want to rape me, machine elves, fear. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:03.9	Go and get it. Oh my God. You are not alone. You have found other people.
1:14.0	You and I have a friend in common.
1:16.5	Every stupid thing that a writer could do I've done.
1:19.4	I think it's really beautiful.
1:21.0	Jesus, I did it well.
1:22.2	I struggle, you know?
1:23.3	It was incredible.
1:24.5	You know, it was like your head exploded,
1:26.0	seeing what was really there.
1:27.7	And now here's your host, Brad Listy. Just one person at just one time. Okay, guys, here we go again. This is it. This is other people. This is a podcast involving the narrative arts. This is something you can listen to while doing other things. How's it going out there? I'm Brad Listy. It's nice to be with you. I'm sitting here in
1:45.0	Los Angeles talking into this microphone. And I'm very pleased to have Tim O'Connell on the program
1:50.6	today. He's an editor of books over there in New York City. He works at vintage slash anchor slash
1:57.2	Knapp, slash Pantheon. Have I said that correctly? He's a hyphenate. He edits for a variety
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