How to Build a Rewarding Creative Life

Otherppl with Brad Listi

Brad Listi

Arts, Society & Culture, Books

4.8 • 554 Ratings

🗓️ 17 April 2024

⏱️ 89 minutes

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Summary

A new 'Craftwork' episode, about how to build a rewarding creative life. My guest is Ben Tanzer, author of the novel The Missing, available from 7.13 Books. Tanzer is an Emmy winner. His work includes the short story collection Upstate, the science fiction novel Orphans and the essay collections Lost in Space and Be Cool. Ben is a storySouth and Pushcart nominee, a finalist for the Annual National Indie Excellence and Eric Hoffer Book Awards, a winner of the Devil's Kitchen Literary Festival Nonfiction Prose Award and a Midwest Book Award. He also received an Honorable Mention at the Chicago Writers Association Book Awards for Traditional Non-Fiction and a Bronze Medal from the Independent Publisher Book Awards. He's written for Hemispheres, Punk Planet, Men’s Health, and The Arrow, AARP’s GenX newsletter. He lives in Chicago with his family. *** Otherppl with Brad Listi is a weekly literary podcast featuring in-depth interviews with today's leading writers. Available where podcasts are available: Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube, etc. Subscribe to Brad Listi’s email newsletter. Support the show on Patreon Merch Twitter Instagram TikTok Bluesky Email the show: letters [at] otherppl [dot] com The podcast is a proud affiliate partner of Bookshop, working to support local, independent bookstores. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey everybody, welcome to the program.
0:06.4	This is the Other People Show.
0:08.2	I'm Brad Listy here in Los Angeles.
0:11.7	Thanks for tuning in.
0:13.4	Hope everything's going okay, wherever you are.
0:16.2	Don't forget to subscribe to this podcast wherever you listen.
0:20.0	You can also subscribe on
0:21.7	YouTube follow the show on social media TikTok Instagram Twitter and Blue Sky so I'm
0:30.8	going to be doing a craft work episode today called how to build a Rewarding Creative Life.
0:40.3	I will be in conversation with Ben Tanzer.
0:44.3	He has a new novel out called The Missing.
0:47.1	It was published back in March by 713 books.
0:52.8	Ben is a returning champion.
0:54.2	This is his second time on the show.
0:56.6	He first appeared back in episode 42 in February of 2012.
1:03.4	And today, he and I are going to be talking about the creative life
1:08.4	and about how best to approach it strategically,
1:16.3	attitudinally, psychospiritually, so as to make the experience as enjoyable and productive
1:24.4	and rewarding as possible.
1:35.1	A very interesting conversation with Ben Tanzer is coming up in just a couple of minutes.
1:39.0	A quick reminder about my weekly email newsletter.
1:42.5	You can sign up for free over at bradlisty.substack.com. I would also love it if you joined the other people
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