Episode 402 — Mark de Silva

Otherppl with Brad Listi

Brad Listi

Arts, Society & Culture, Books

4.8 • 554 Ratings

🗓️ 2 March 2016

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Summary

Mark de Silva is the guest. His debut novel, Square Wave, is available now from Two Dollar Radio. If I recall correctly, Mark's parents dropped him off at my house, which, if true, would make him the first guest in the history of the program to be dropped off by his parents, which is hopefully the start of a trend. (Maybe I should do a series of interviews called "Writers and Their Parents" wherein writers come over with their parents, and we all sit down and talk.) Mark went to Cambridge and got a Ph.D. in Philosophy. I feel like I should tell you that. He grew up in the Inland Empire here in Southern California, the child of psychotherapists. I think I'm remembering that correctly. This conversation took place two or three weeks ago. My life has been crazy since then. My brain is completely shot. I can't remember much. But I do remember laughing a lot during this interview, and feeling like it went really well. So there's that. I hope you guys enjoy it. In today's monologue, I think I talk about caffeine. And I talk about my barista, a gentle man with a ponytail. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:37.2	you are not alone you have found
0:42.5	other people you and i have a friend in common every stupid thing that a writer could do i've done
0:49.9	i think it's really beautiful jake stated they did it what a struggle, you know?
1:13.8	It was incredible. It was like your head exploded, seeing what was really there. And now here's your host, Brad Listy. Just one person and just one time. Hey, everybody, here we go again. This is it. This is other people. This is partially the product of confusion. This is neither of us having anything better to do. How's it going? I'm Brad Lestie. I'm in Los Angeles. I'm sitting here. I'm in a chair. I'm in a garage. I'm feeling good.
1:19.8	How are you feeling? My guest today is Mark De Silva. His debut novel is called Square Wave. It's available now from $2 radio. Mark De Silva and I will be in conversation in just a minute.
1:29.1	I don't have much to say.
1:30.2	It's been busy.
1:31.4	Things have ratcheted up in my life.
1:35.4	Family stuff.
1:36.1	I'm not getting back into it.
1:37.1	I'm not going to talk about it.
1:37.9	Just saying, like, I've got a lot going on.
1:40.1	I feel busy.
1:41.6	I feel sleepless.
1:42.6	I haven't been eating a lot.
1:44.1	I'm stressed. It's okay. It's just a phase.
1:49.5	Nothing's permanent. It's going through life. Trying to figure everything out. I was just at the coffee shop this
2:00.6	afternoon.
2:03.7	Having an exchange with my barista.
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