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Otherppl with Brad Listi

Episode 38 — Vanessa Veselka

Otherppl with Brad Listi

Brad Listi

Arts, Society & Culture, Books

4.8554 Ratings

🗓️ 25 January 2012

⏱️ 79 minutes

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Summary

Vanessa Veselka is the guest.  She's the author of the novel Zazen, now available from Red Lemonade. Says Publishers Weekly:  "Veselka's prose is chiseled and laced with arsenic observations...[Zazen] makes a case for hope and meaning amid sheer madness." Endless ... Continue reading → Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:34.5

audiobooks. Over at Audible.com, there are hundreds of thousands of titles

0:38.2

to choose from in a wide range of genres, and you can play them on just about any gadget that you might

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have, whether it's your iPhone, your Kindle, your Android, whatever. And here is an amazing deal,

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everybody. Right now for listeners of this program, Audible is offering a free audiobook download

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with a free 14-day trial.

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Go get some old childhood favorites like The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien or the

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lion, the witch in the wardrobe by C.S. Lewis. Or what about Animal Farm? By George Orwell

1:04.8

or Charlie in the Chocolate Factory by Roll Doll. Any one of these titles can be yours free of charge.

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And if you do this, if you go get the freebie, it helps the show, it helps the program. I get a few bucks. It's a good thing. To download your

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free audio book, just go to audibletrial.com slash other people. Again, that's audibletrial.com

1:24.3

slash other people. This is a terrific deal. It's available right now. These are books. You can

1:30.9

listen to them. Go and get them. Oh my God. You are not alone. You have found other people.

1:41.9

You and I have a friend in common. Every stupid thing that a writer could do I've done. I think it's really beautiful. Jesus, did it what I struggle, you know? It was incredible. You know, it's like your head exploded, seeing what was really there. And now here's your host, Brad Listing. Just one person at just one time. Right. Right. Okay, everybody, here we go again. Welcome back to the program. This is other people. This is it. This is the show. It's nice to have you here. It's nice to be inside of your head. Just think about that for a moment. I am now entering your brain right now, right now, right now.

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