Episode 314 — Laila Lalami

Otherppl with Brad Listi

Brad Listi

Arts, Society & Culture, Books

4.8 • 554 Ratings

🗓️ 21 September 2014

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Summary

Laila Lalami is the guest. Her new novel, The Moor's Account, is available now from Pantheon. Salman Rushdie says "Laila Lalami has fashioned an absorbing story of one of the first encounters between Spanish conquistadores and Native Americans, a frightening, brutal, and much-falsified history that here, in her brilliantly imagined fiction, is rewritten to give us something that feels very like the truth." And Kirkus, in a starred review, calls it "Assured, lyrical . . . Certainly the most extensive telling of the tale from ‘the Moor’s’ point of view . . . Adding a new spin to a familiar story, Lalami offers an utterly believable, entertainingly told alternative to the historical record. A delight." Monologue topics: mail, Jim Morrison, my friend pain. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey folks, today's episode is brought to you by Audible, the world's leading provider of digital audiobooks. Over at Audible, they have hundreds of thousands of audio books. You know what an audiobook is, right? It's a book you can listen to. And now, uh, you can get a freebie. On the house, on the show. If you go to audible trial.com slash other people, that's audible trial.com slash OTHER P-E-O-P-O-P-L-E. You have to spell it out the traditional
0:25.9	way. You go there. You get a free audiobook download with a free 30-day trial. Audible trial.com
0:34.6	slash other people. Go get an audiobook. It's fun. fun it's edifying it'll make you a better person
0:40.0	depending on what book you choose audible trial dot com slash other people these are books
0:44.9	you can listen to them go and get one oh my god you are not alone You have found other people.
0:56.6	You and I have a friend in common.
0:59.1	Every stupid thing that a writer could do I've done.
1:02.0	I think it's really beautiful.
1:03.6	Jesus, stayed it well, I struggle, you know?
1:05.9	It was incredible.
1:07.1	You know, it's like your head exploded, seeing what was really there.
1:10.3	And now here's your host, Bradley Stey. Just one person at just one time. Okay, folks, here we go again. This is it. This is other people. This is occasionally repetitive. This is not intentionally annoying. How are you today? How's it going? What's happening? What's the word? I'm Brad Brad Listy I'm in Los Angeles it's
1:28.2	nice to be with you it's nice to be talking into this microphone and imagining
1:32.3	you listening somewhere I hope this is all you know this is this real are you
1:38.1	really listening please tell me that this is not all just a figment of my
1:43.3	imagination my guest today is Leila Lalami.
1:47.0	Leila Lalami, her new novel, The Moors Account, is out there now from Pantheon.
1:51.5	We had a good conversation.
1:53.0	I'm excited to share it with you in just a moment.
1:59.0	So, you know, I continue to get mail. I'm going to share some more mail. If you guys email me, I feel compelled to read it on the air. As much of it, you know, not all of it, but as much of it as I can. So I got a letter from a woman named Elizabeth. She writes, Dear Brad, I just wanted to send a thank you for everything about this podcast. I'm a poet living in
2:17.5	LA with a one-year-old and a terrible commute. So discovering other people this year has been an
2:22.8	absolute lifesaver. I've got one book out and was just despairing over never ever again having
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