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Otherppl with Brad Listi

Episode 372 — Jim Gavin

Otherppl with Brad Listi

Brad Listi

Arts, Society & Culture, Books

4.8554 Ratings

🗓️ 22 July 2015

⏱️ 83 minutes

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Summary

Jim Gavin is the guest. His story collection, Middle Men, is available now from Simon & Schuster. Jim is another in a long line of Catholic (and recovering Catholic) authors who have appeared on this program, a completely accidental trend that was pointed out to me by listener Nick Ripatrazone, who wrote about it in an essay over at The Millions. Jim and I talk Catholicism—as a child he wanted to be a priest—and we get into other stuff as well, including how he managed to get one of his stories published in The New Yorker. The monologue today is short and sweet.  It looks like my wife is beginning to go into labor.  I talk about it.  That doesn't mean the baby is hours from being born—though this could be the case. It's up in the air.  I might have over-shared. I'm not sure. It's debatable. Let me know. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:03.8

Oh my God.

1:06.3

You are not alone.

1:08.7

You have found other people.

1:12.1

You and I have a friend in common.

1:14.6

Every stupid thing that a writer could do I've done.

1:17.4

I think it's really beautiful.

1:19.0

Jesus, what I struggle, you know?

1:21.3

It was incredible.

1:22.5

It was like your head exploded, seeing what was really there.

1:25.7

And now here's your host, Bradley Steen. Just one person at just one time. Here we go again. This is it. This is other people. This is probably slowly evolving. This is eventually going to disintegrate. How's it going? What's happening out there? I'm Brad Listy. I'm in Los Angeles. And there's a lot going on. It's been kind of a busy day. My wife texted me.

1:45.7

My wife Carrie texted me just a little bit ago.

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