Episode 416 — Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney

Otherppl with Brad Listi

Brad Listi

Arts, Society & Culture, Books

4.8 • 554 Ratings

🗓️ 1 June 2016

⏱️ 78 minutes

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Summary

Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney is the guest. Her debut novel, The Nest, is available now from Ecco Books. Cynthia is living the dream. Or at least one kind of dream. It's a common dream: write novel, sell novel for big advance, watch as novel becomes New York Times bestseller, do media tour for novel, feel somewhat weird and even at times guilty that novel is doing so well. And so on. Really good time talking with Cynthia. Very candid conversation. And one of the best conversations I've ever had about what it really takes to make a book a bestseller. In today's monologue, I talk about moving, and customer service representatives, and spiritual depletion at the hands of customer service representatives. And also my dog's bleeding anus. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:45.4	My guest today is Cynthia Dupree Sweeney,
1:49.5	author of the debut novel, The Nest, available now from Echo.
1:51.5	Perhaps you've heard of this book.
1:54.8	It's been on the New York Times bestseller list for the past several weeks.
1:59.7	Not only is it one of the biggest literary debuts of the year. It's one of the biggest books, period.
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