Episode 86 — Alexis Smith
Otherppl with Brad Listi
Brad Listi
4.8 • 554 Ratings
🗓️ 11 July 2012
⏱️ 70 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hey you guys, this episode of other people is brought to you by nine months. Paula Bomer's debut novel available this August from Soho Press. |
| 0:08.2 | An unrepentantant satire and lacerating denouncement of mommy culture, nine months is the story of an artist, |
| 0:15.1 | unexpectedly pregnant for the third time, and desperate to reclaim an identity separate from her family. She leaves her husband and |
| 0:22.3 | children for a cross-country odyssey marked with drugs and casual sex in the hope of |
| 0:27.6 | retracing the steps that led to a life more artless and tame than she ever imagined for herself. |
| 0:33.9 | Marcy Dermanski calls nine months, quote, deliciously, dangerously rogue, and Sam Lipside says, quote, words like tough and honest don't quite do justice to the fiction of Paula Bomer. |
| 0:46.8 | The perfect summer read for young mothers, heavy drinkers, doubtful churchgoers, militant vegans, skateboarding pros from the 80s, sassy librarians, social smokers, and small business owners. |
| 0:58.2 | Nine months is available for pre-order now and will be in stores on August 21st. |
| 1:04.2 | For an excerpt and a full list of reviews, visit SohoPress.com. |
| 1:09.7 | Soho Press, independently publishing bold new voices in literature since 1986. |
| 1:16.4 | It's a book. |
| 1:17.6 | You can read it. |
| 1:18.9 | Go and get it. |
| 1:20.1 | Oh my God. |
| 1:22.9 | You are not alone. |
| 1:25.4 | You have found other people. |
| 1:28.9 | You and I have a friend in common. |
| 1:31.3 | Every stupid thing that a writer could do I've done. |
| 1:34.2 | I think it's really beautiful. |
| 1:35.8 | Jesus, did it what I struggle, you know? |
| 1:38.1 | It was incredible. |
| 1:39.4 | It was like your head exploded, seeing what was really there. |
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