Episode 307 — Jim Ruland

Otherppl with Brad Listi

Brad Listi

Arts, Society & Culture, Books

4.8 • 554 Ratings

🗓️ 27 August 2014

⏱️ 83 minutes

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Summary

Jim Ruland is the guest. His new novel, Forest of Fortune, is available now from Tyrus Books. It is the official August selection of The TNB Book Club. The Los Angeles Times calls it "[A] masterpiece of desperation, delusion and misdeeds.... Ruland...brilliantly taps the fundamental irony of casinos.... A satisfying read." And Jerry Stahl says "...[Forest of Fortune] captures the soul and voice of hard-luck, hard-living Americans in a way that conjures up earlier masters like Raymond Carver and Richard Ford. Jim Ruland has an uncanny ability to get inside his characters...." Monologue topics: National Geographic, Going Deep, David Rees, Otherppl Premium, dive bars, disillusionment, fetishizing filth. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:48.5	Every stupid thing that a writer could do I've done.
0:51.3	I think it's really beautiful.
0:52.9	Jesus, dude, what I struggle, you know?
0:55.3	It was incredible. You know, it's like your head exploded, seeing what was really there. And now here's your host, Brad Listy. Just one person at just one time. Right. Okay, here we go again, everybody. This is it. This is other people. This is something that you're listening to. This is how you have chosen to distract yourself from the inevitability of mortality.
1:13.2	How's it going out there?
1:14.3	I'm Brad Listy. Thank you for listening. It's good to be with you. I'm talking very fast. I've just drank a lot of caffeine. I'll be honest with you about that. Jim Rulin is my guest. His novel, Forest of Fortune, is available now from Tyrus Books. It is the official
1:29.0	August selection of the TNB Book Club, the Nervous Breakdown Book Club. For those of you who are not
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