Episode 388 — Myriam Gurba

Otherppl with Brad Listi

Brad Listi

Arts, Society & Culture, Books

4.8 • 554 Ratings

🗓️ 11 November 2015

⏱️ 77 minutes

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Summary

Myriam Gurba is the guest. Her new story collection is called Painting Their Portraits in Winter, available now from Manic D Press. Myriam showed up in a pair of new shoes. She went shopping before the podcast. Bought some shoes. Wore them out of the store. I found that charming. It reminded me of being a kid and getting new shoes and insisting on wearing them out of the store because I felt like they would make me run faster or something. Another thing about Myriam: she's an easy talker. I love it when I get a guest like this. Makes it easy on me. Good sense of humor. Opinions. Plenty to say. Also very direct about not wanting to talk about certain things, which is always fine. She's a California girl, born and raised. Grew up in Santa Maria, not far from Santa Barbara. Land of the saints. Wine country, farmland, ocean air, strawberries. We talk about it all. In today's monologue, I discuss my recent crisis of confidence regarding monologues and read from a Twitter exchange I had with listeners regarding the continued existence of the monologue at the top of the show. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey folks, today's episode is brought to you by Litbreaker.
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0:24.2	It's very user-friendly. to litbreaker.com for more information and learn how you can advertise on the entire network
0:21.5	or you can pick the sites you want and advertise piecemeal. It's very user-friendly,
0:25.3	litbreaker.com. This is an advertising network for book nerds. Go and advertise on it. Oh, my God.
0:34.1	You are not alone. You have found other people.
0:39.9	You and I have a friend in common.
0:42.4	Every stupid thing that a writer could do I've done.
0:45.2	I think it's really beautiful.
0:46.9	Gee, stated what I struggle, you know?
0:49.2	It was incredible.
0:50.4	You know, it was like your head exploded, seeing what was really there.
0:53.6	And now here's your host
0:54.8	brad listy just one person at just one time here here we go again this is it this is other people
1:00.8	this is yet another podcast this is listened to on a regular basis by 643 people in india how's it
1:05.9	going out there i'm brad listy i'm in los angeles I'm speaking in a very clipped manner. Indicative. Indicating that I've been using caffeine. I've been using caffeine. I'm a caffeine user. And I'm in a garage in Los Angeles. And I'm on caffeine. I'm on a lot of caffeine right now. My guest today is Miriam Gerba. She has a new story collection out.
1:29.2	It's called Painting Their Portraits in Winter.
1:32.0	It's available from Manick D. Press.
1:35.9	Miriam Gerba painting their portraits in winter.
1:38.2	I will be talking with her shortly.
1:56.4	And speaking of shortly, I was musing on Twitter over at my other people Twitter account a few days ago, having a public crisis of confidence about monologues on this program, whether or not they're necessary.
1:57.8	Is it too much me?
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