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Otherppl with Brad Listi

Episode 382 — Jonathan Evison

Otherppl with Brad Listi

Brad Listi

Society & Culture, Arts, Books

4.8555 Ratings

🗓️ 30 September 2015

⏱️ 73 minutes

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Summary

Jonathan Evison is the guest. His new novel, This is Your Life, Harriet Chance!, is now available from Algonquin Books. It was the official August pick of The Nervous Breakdown Book Club. A little late getting to this one, considering that Harriet was the August pick for the book club, but as most of you know, my new policy is to only do in-person interviews, so I waited for Johnny to get down here on  tour, and then he came over and sat down and we talked. Always great to see Mr. Evison. Known him for a long time. We met on Myspace years ago. True story. And we've been buddies ever since. Johnny is one of those writers who can really do the work. He's prolific and yet the quality is so high. Every time I look up, I feel like he's got another novel coming out. (And here I should mention that his last one, Revised Fundamentals of Caregiving, has been adapted for the silver screen, starring Paul Rudd and Selena Gomez, and should be out in theaters before too long.  Stay tuned.)  And what else? I think you're gonna like this one.  I know I always say that, but with this one I really mean it.  I had a good time talking with Johnny Evison. We haven't seen each other in a while and this was our chance to catch up and there's just an essential goodness to him that always comes through, both in art and in life. In today's monologue I somehow start talking about Janis Joplin and how a certain Janis Joplin moment encapsulates my inner world when I'm deep in the throes of sleep deprivation. I also talk briefly about the recent blood moon.    Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcript

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0:00.0

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0:24.5

These are earbuds.

0:25.2

These are headphones.

0:26.1

You can listen to things with them.

0:27.4

Go and get some.

0:28.7

Oh, my God.

0:31.4

You are not alone.

0:33.6

You have found other people.

0:37.2

You and I have a friend in common.

0:39.6

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

0:42.4

I think it's really beautiful.

0:44.0

Jesus, what a struggle, you know?

0:46.4

It was incredible.

0:47.6

You know, it's like your head exploded, seeing what was really there.

0:50.8

And now here's your host, Brad Listing.

0:53.6

Just one person at just one time.

0:56.1

All right. Everybody, here we go again. This is it. This is other people. This is almost famous. This is abundantly clear. How's it going? I'm Brad Listy. I'm in Los Angeles. It's very nice to be with you. Thank you for listening. My guest, I have a great show for you today. Very excited about it. My guest is Jonathan Eveson.

1:12.0

Johnny and I go back away.

1:13.2

As a matter of fact, believe it or not, Jonathan Eveson was the very first guest on this program.

1:20.3

Episode one, many moons ago.

1:22.2

I think that was what, four years ago?

1:24.9

Has it been four years?

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