Episode 318 — Merritt Tierce

Otherppl with Brad Listi

Brad Listi

Arts, Society & Culture, Books

4.8 • 554 Ratings

🗓️ 5 October 2014

⏱️ 81 minutes

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Summary

Merritt Tierce is the guest. Her debut novel Love Me Back is now available from Doubleday. The Oxford American says “What’s so compelling about this compulsively readable yet highly literary novel is not the 'unflinching' depiction of Marie’s behavior—though it’s crafted so carefully that readers want to consume each detail—but instead the beautifully plain and unsentimental access Tierce gives us to her protagonist’s interior…How rare it is to find a writer who can encapsulate a character’s sweeping motivation in a page or paragraph or single sentence…Tierce’s magnetic portrayal of a woman whose behavior is conventionally allowed only of men announces Tierce as a writer we’ve been waiting for for much too long." And Carrie Brownstein says “Tierce's prose possesses the force, bluntness and surprise of a sucker punch. Love Me Back is an unflinching and galvanic novel full of heart and heartache; one of my favorite books of the last few years.” Monologue topics: the darkness of the past week, literary media, Ed Champion, Stephen Tully Dierks, Tao Lin, Emily Gould, Porochista Khakpour, Twitter, ambivalence, flailing. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:09.8	Oh, my God. You are not it. Oh my God.
1:16.4	You are not alone. You have found other people.
1:19.7	You and I have a friend in common.
1:22.6	Every stupid thing that a writer could do I've done.
1:24.0	I think it's really beautiful.
1:26.6	Jesus. State it was struggle, you know?
1:45.8	It was incredible. It was like your head exploded, seeing what was really there. And now here's your host, Brad Listy. Just one person at just one time. Okay, everybody, here we go again. This is it. This is other people. This is apparently happening. This is a good thing to listen to while driving. How are you today? I'm Brad Listy. I'm in Los Angeles. It's good to be with you. I have a great show for you. Merritt Tears is my guest. Her debut novel
1:51.9	is called Love Me Back. It's out there now from Doubleday. It is generating a lot of buzz,
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