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Otherppl with Brad Listi

Episode 410 — Elizabeth Crane

Otherppl with Brad Listi

Brad Listi

Arts, Society & Culture, Books

4.8554 Ratings

🗓️ 20 April 2016

⏱️ 79 minutes

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Summary

Elizabeth Crane is the guest. Her new novel, The History of Great Things, is available now from Harper Perennial.  Great to see Elizabeth again. She came over not too long ago and sat down across from me and we caught up. Her new novel is all about her late mother. It's about other things, too, but mostly it's about her mom. We get into that. We also talk about writing and fiction vs nonfiction and childhood and fears. We talk about preconception of structure vs intuitive making-it-up-as-you-go. We talk. In today's monologue, I answer questions as smooth jazz plays in the background. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:35.4

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0:37.1

Oh, my God.

0:40.1

You are not alone.

0:42.5

You have found other people.

0:45.9

You and I have a friend in common.

0:48.4

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

0:51.2

I think it's really beautiful.

0:52.9

Jesus, what a 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 Listy. Just one person. All right, everybody. Here we go again. This is it. This is other people. This is better late than never. This is something you can do while operating a canoe.

1:32.2

How's it going on? I'm Brad Listy. I'm here in Los Angeles. It's nice to be with you. Did you know that David Letterman, when he was in college, had a girlfriend that I think became his wife. I think he got married in college. One of my high school teachers went to college with David Letterman and told me, and I may have said this before on this program, that when he, when David Letterman was in college at Ball State University in Muncie, Indiana, he had an apartment. He didn't really have furniture, but he did have

1:37.2

a canoe that he placed in his living room. And when people wanted to watch TV, they sat in the canoe.

1:42.8

And the canoe was pointed at the TV. So when you sat in the canoe with David Letterman and his wife and friends, it was kind of like, you know, there's like seven or eight people in the canoe. And then you had to like lean one way and then the person behind you would lean the other way. Do you see what I'm saying? And that was how people had to watch TV. That was what my high school teacher told me about David Letterman and his canoe.

2:04.9

So it's good to be with you.

2:06.1

My guest today is Elizabeth Crane.

2:07.5

This is her second appearance on the Other People podcast program.

2:11.2

Those of you who are other people premium subscribers can also listen to her in episode

2:16.1

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