Episode 580: Rachel Khong

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Education, Arts, Books, News

4.7 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 22 May 2024

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

Rachel Khong is a journalist and author whose latest novel is Real Americans. “It's about the ways in which we miss each other as human beings and can't fully communicate what it is like to be ourselves. … And I think that's what makes it so interesting to me, to work on a novel and to spend so much time trying to get down on the page what it feels like to be a human being who's alive. … I think the effort itself is what human relationships are.” Show notes: rachelkhong.com 01:00 Real Americans (Knopf • 2024) 01:00 Goodbye, Vitamin (Picador • 2017) 01:00 Lucky Peach archive 01:00 "Would Limitlessness Make Us Better Writers?" (The Atlantic • Apr 2024) 01:00 "Dust to Dust" (Eater • May 2024) 05:00 "New Pornographers + Stars, 6/25 Prospect Park Summer Stage" (Village Voice • Jun 2005) 09:00 Same Bed Different Dreams (Ed Park • Random House • 2023) 12:00 "Inside My Days as a Content Bot" (Esquire • Apr 2024) 24:00 "The Rumpus Interview with Elizabeth Gilbert" (Rumpus • Oct 2012) 24:00 Eat Pray Love (Elizabeth Gilbert • Riverhead • 2007) 24:00 Elizabeth Gilbert's GQ archive 54:00 "The Great Pacific Oyster Trail" (Eater • Jun 2017) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:53.0	Hello, welcome to the long form podcast.
0:55.0	I'm Max Lindymeer.
0:57.0	I'm Max Linzkem here with my co-host Aaron Lemmer. I'm in Radcliffe, gentlemen, hello Max.
1:00.0	Max, are you sick?
1:02.0	I lost my voice this weekend, you you guys I did a lot of yelling and
1:04.8	look at this real podcaster here yeah I'm cutting this one out I'm limping around
1:11.6	voice sounds like shit I just did the interview for this week, so people should prepare for me to sound strange.
1:18.0	Hey look, you got to play injured in the playoffs, okay? I appreciate your commitment to this team.
1:23.2	Who did you have on the show while injured?
1:26.3	I talked to Rachel Kong, and Rachel is a novelist.
1:30.6	She has a new book out.
1:31.4	It's called Real Americans. It is a
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