Episode 373 — Bud Smith

Otherppl with Brad Listi

Brad Listi

Arts, Society & Culture, Books

4.8 • 554 Ratings

🗓️ 29 July 2015

⏱️ 104 minutes

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Summary

Bud Smith is the guest. His new novel, F 250, is available now from Piscataway House. I did a reading with Bud here in Los Angeles earlier this summer. He was kind enough to invite me. Ben Loory, Mira Gonzalez, and xTx also read. The next day Bud came over and we sat down and talked. What strikes me about him is that his path to writing is different from most everyone I know in literature. Different and the same, I guess. The word "refreshing" comes to mind. By day he works as a boilermaker. He writes his novels on his iPhone, typing with his thumbs, during his lunchbreaks and whanot. He doesn't get too neurotic about it. We discuss all of this in the interview, and more. Bud is a good one. He has the right attitude. In today's monologue, I talk about the birth of my son, River, who arrived on July 21st, a few hours after I recorded my last episode. Hard to put it into words, especially since I'm so sleep-deprived, but I give it a shot. Let's just say it's been a great week for my family, and I want to thank those of you who wrote/tweeted/Facebooked your good wishes. Really appreciate it, you guys. Means a lot to me. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:53.4	And now here's your host, Brad Listy. Just one person at just one time. Right. Here we go again. This is it. This is other people. This is recorded in the depths of intense sleep deprivation. This is a book-related podcast. How's it going? I'm Brad Listy. I'm in Los Angeles. I'm very tired. My son was born.
1:14.5	He was born. And I'm going to tell you all about it in just a second. First, though, I want to tell you that Bud Smith is my guest today. Bud Smith. His new novel, F-250, is available now from Piscataway House. Bud was here. He was in my garage
1:30.8	with me. We talked, and I'm going to share that conversation with you momentarily. So,
1:35.5	in the last episode, episode 372, I think it was Jim Gavin, I talked in the monologue about my wife and the bloody show.
1:47.7	Do you guys remember that?
1:48.6	Did you listen to that episode?
1:50.0	Anyway, I recorded that episode, I believe, a week ago today.
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