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Otherppl with Brad Listi

Jacinda Townsend on Music, Kentucky, Childhood, Greyhound Buses, Getting Taken Seriously, Siblings, Skipping Grades, Leaving Home, and Harvard

Otherppl with Brad Listi

Brad Listi

Books, Society & Culture, Arts

4.8 • 554 Ratings

🗓️ 16 February 2024

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

In today's flashback, an outtake from Episode 264, my conversation with author Jacinda Townsend. It first aired on March 30, 2014. Jacinda Townsend is the author of the novels Mother Country (Graywolf Press) and Saint Monkey (W.W. Norton), which won the Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize and the James Fenimore Cooper Prize. She is a graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop and teaches in the MFA program at Brown University. *** 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 @otherppl Instagram  TikTok 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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Hey everybody welcome to the program this is the other people show I'm Brad

1:08.7

Lestie I'm in Los Angeles it Friday. Hope you're doing okay out there.

1:14.9

It's going to be a flashback episode today as it is every Friday. I will be digging into

1:21.0

the archives and sharing with you an outtake from an episode out of the past. Today, an outtake from episode 264, my conversation

1:31.7

with author Jacinda Townsend. It first aired on March 30th, 2014. Jacinda Townsend is the author of the

1:41.6

novel's Mother Country, available from Grey Wolf Press, and St. Monkey,

1:48.0

available from W.W. Norton & Company.

1:51.3

Jacinda is a graduate of the Iowa Writers Workshop, and she teaches creative writing at Brown

1:58.0

University.

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