Episode 317 — Sheila Heti, Heidi Julavits, & Leanne Shapton

Otherppl with Brad Listi

Brad Listi

Arts, Society & Culture, Books

4.8 • 554 Ratings

🗓️ 1 October 2014

⏱️ 76 minutes

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Sheila Heti, Heidi Julavits, and Leanne Shapton are the guests. They are the editors of the bestselling book Women in Clothes, which features the work of more than 600 authors, including notables like Cindy Sherman, Lena Dunham, Kim Gordon, and Molly Ringwald. Kirkus Reviews says “Poems, interviews, pieces that read like diary or journal entries—all these responses help the editors fulfill their aims: to liberate readers from the idea that women have to fit a certain image or ideal, to show the connection between dress and ‘habits of mind,’ and to offer readers ‘a new way of interpreting their outsides.’ ‘What are my values?’ one woman asks. ‘What do I want to express?’ Those questions inform the multitude of eclectic responses gathered in this delightfully idiosyncratic book.” And Publishers Weekly says “Thoughtfully crafted and visually entertaining, this collection, edited by Heti, Julavits, and Shapton, uses personal reflections from 642 contributors to examine women’s relationship with clothes in a deceptively lighthearted and irreverent tone….it also inspires meaningful questions…the prose is spliced with striking visuals…[a] provocative time capsule of contemporary womanhood.” Monologue topics: nerves, confusion, technology, not talking about literary scandal. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey, you guys. Today's episode is brought to you by Audible, the world's leading provider of digital
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0:50.3	Every stupid thing that a writer could do I've done.
0:53.1	I think it's really beautiful. Jesus, what I struggle, you know? It was incredible. You know, it was like your head exploded, seeing what was really there. And now here's your host, Bradley Steen. Just one person at just one time. Right. Okay, everybody, here we go again. This is it. This is other people. This is one man talking to three women about clothing. This is trying in some way to be fashionable. How are you today? How's it going out there? I'm Brad Listy. I'm sitting here in Los Angeles. It's very nice to be with you. And I'm very excited about today's episode. It's a little bit unique in the history of this program with respect to format.
1:28.6	Under normal circumstances, as many of you know, I'm sitting here talking one-on-one
1:32.9	with a writer or some such literary human being.
1:37.0	And in this particular episode, I had the opportunity to speak in person with three
1:41.1	very talented writers, Sheila Hetty, Heidi Julevitz, and Leanne Shaptan.
1:45.8	Together, they are the editors of the best-selling book, Women in Clothes, now available
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