Episode 392 — Alexandra Kleeman

Otherppl with Brad Listi

Brad Listi

Arts, Society & Culture, Books

4.8 • 554 Ratings

🗓️ 9 December 2015

⏱️ 88 minutes

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Summary

Alexandra Kleeman is the guest. Her debut novel, You Too Can Have a Body Like Mine, is available now from Harper. Alexandra is from Boulder, so we have that in common. Not that I'm "from" Boulder, but I did live there for eight years, went to college there, and so on. The feeling I came away with after talking to her is that she's an unusually kind person. She's one of those people who emanates goodness. Just sweet as could be. And behind that sweetness is a really fierce intelligence. Her book has been getting all kinds of raves, and Ben Marcus called it "the fiction of the future" or something along those lines, and he tends to be right about those kinds of things, so...a very promising start to a literary career. And I'm happy I got to talk with Alexandra just as things are getting under way. In today's monologue I talk about the holidays. And jury duty. And then at the tail end of the show I talk about some movies I've seen recently. 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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0:17.4	Sites like the Paris Review, the nervous breakdown, the rumpus, large-hearted boy, full stop.
0:22.3	The list goes on.
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0:25.7	Litbreaker, it's an online advertising network
0:28.0	for book people slash art people
0:31.0	slash, you know what I'm talking about.
0:33.1	Go and advertise on it.
0:34.0	Oh, my God.
0:36.5	You are not alone. You have found other people.
0:42.3	You and I have a friend in common.
0:44.7	Every stupid thing that a writer could do I've done.
0:47.5	I think it's really beautiful.
0:49.2	Jesus, stated what I struggle, you know?
0:51.5	It was incredible. It was like your head exploded, seeing what was really there.
1:12.9	And now here's your host, Brad Listy. Just one person at just one time. Hey, guys, here we go again. This is it. This is other people. This is me on three hours of sleep. This is you trying to stop talking to yourself. How's it going out there? What's happening? How are you doing? I'm Brad Listy. I'm in Los Angeles. It's nice to be with you. Thank you for tuning in.
1:11.0	Alexander Clemen is my guest. How's it going out there? What's happening? How are you doing? I'm Brad Listy. I'm in Los Angeles.
1:12.9	It's nice to be with you. Thank you for tuning in.
1:19.0	Alexander Clemen is my guest. She is the author of a debut novel called You Two Can Have a Body Like Mine and is available now from Harper Books. Vogue magazine calls it Fight Club for Women.
1:26.6	Or Fight Club for Girls or I i can't remember fight club for women
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