This episode of other people is brought to you by Johnny Future, the new novel by Steve Abbey, now available from MP publishing.

Johnny Future, lover of all that exists, hopelessly unrepentant and quixotic, knows that life is calling him.

He can feel it, man, inanimate objects, exterminator icons, street signs are all talking to him, telling him he's a loser. His grandmother, Dolly Flowers,

the only mother he has ever known is in a nursing home. He hasn't seen her since she got sick,

but with a stolen car and a prostitute named America in tow, Johnny's adventure to save his

grandmother from death takes him from the slums of Hollywood to a wild freeway chase with the LAPD to the doorstep of fate.

Steve Abbey taps the well of broken hope and tattered heroism that sits beneath his nihilistic generation.

A heartening, hypersexual, punch-drunk tour to force,

Johnny Future ushers the drug narrative into the New American Century.

That's Johnny Future by Steve Abbey, available now from MP Publishing.

It's a book. You can read it. Go and get it. Oh my God.

You are not alone. You have found other people. Go and get it. Oh, my God.

You are not alone.

You have found other people.

You and I have a friend in common.

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

I think it's really beautiful.

Jesus, did it what I struggle, you know?

It was incredible.

You know, it was like your head exploded, seeing what was really there. And now here's your host, Brad Listing. Just one person at just one time. Okay, everybody, here we go again. This is it. This is other people. This is audio, but not visual. This could possibly be visual, depending on my word choice and the chemicals in your brain.

It's good to be with you today. It's good to have you here in this realm.

My guest today is Emily St. John Mandel.

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