Episode 481 — Margaret Wilkerson Sexton

Otherppl with Brad Listi

Brad Listi

Arts, Society & Culture, Books

4.8 • 554 Ratings

🗓️ 13 September 2017

⏱️ 87 minutes

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Brad Listi talks with Margaret Wilkerson Sexton, author of the debut novel A KIND OF FREEDOM, available from Counterpoint Press. It was recently long-listed for the 2017 National Book Award for Fiction. Wilkerson studied creative writing at Dartmouth and law at UC Berkeley. She was a recipient of the Lombard fellowship and spent a year in the Dominican Republic working for a civil rights organization. She lives in the Bay Area, California. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:10.3	Every stupid thing that a writer could do I've done. I think it's really beautiful. Gee, what I struggle, you know. Incredible. You took your head exploded, see what was really there. And now here's your host, Brad Listy. Just one person at just one time. So, hey, everybody, how's it going? I'm Brad Listy. This is the Other People podcast. Thank you for tuning in. I appreciate that. I'm sitting here in Los Angeles, California in September of 2017. And Margaret Wilkerson, Sexton is my guest. Her new novel is available from Counterpoint. It is called A Kind of Freedom. And she and I had a lot
1:46.7	to talk about. She lives right up the road from me in Oakland, California, but is originally from
1:52.0	New Orleans, where I also have some family. So there was much to discuss. It was a great pleasure
1:57.2	talking with her, and that conversation is coming up in just a bit margaret
2:01.2	wilkerson sexton her novel again is called a kind of freedom so i mentioned uh just a minute ago
2:07.6	that it's september 2017 and uh as of september 14th 2017 the other people podcast will officially be
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