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Otherppl with Brad Listi

Jean Kyoung Frazier on New York City, Bartending, Crushtomers, Not Caring, Dead Flies, First Lines, Reconnecting, and Ambivalence About Ambition

Otherppl with Brad Listi

Brad Listi

Books, Society & Culture, Arts

4.8554 Ratings

🗓️ 12 January 2024

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

In today's flashback, an outtake from Episode 659, my conversation with Jean Kyoung Frazier. This episode first aired on July 22, 2020. Jean's debut novel, Pizza Girl, is available in trade paperback from Anchor Books. She lives in Los Angeles. *** 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

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey everybody, welcome to the show. This is the Other People podcast. I'm Brad Listy and I'm in Los Angeles.

0:08.0

Thank you for tuning in. I appreciate it. Today is Friday, so it is time for another flashback episode

0:14.6

where I dig into the archives and share an outtake from an episode out of the past.

0:21.7

Today we're going to be revisiting episode 659, my conversation with author Jean-Kong-Frasier.

0:30.8

Her debut novel is called Pizza Girl.

0:34.6

It was published back in 2020 by Doubleday.

0:38.8

Episode 659 aired on July 22nd, 2020.

0:46.5

A reminder that the full episode, episode 659, is available in the feed, as are all episodes of this show.

0:54.0

So if you like what you hear in this flashback and you want to go in for the full conversation,

1:00.1

you can do that.

1:00.8

Just look for episode 659, wherever you get your podcasts.

1:05.9

A quick reminder that I do a weekly email newsletter.

1:09.0

You can subscribe for free over at bradlesty.substack.com.

1:13.2

And if you like the work that I do, if you enjoy this show on a regular basis and you

1:18.8

want to join the other people, Patreon community, you can do that at patreon.com

1:24.2

slash other ppl pod.

1:25.9

I would love it if you did all right so here we go with today's

1:34.8

flashback from episode 659 here i am in conversation with jean keier, and once again, her debut novel is called Pizza Girl.

1:48.6

I loved those Matt Christopher books when I was a kid.

1:50.8

I don't know if you ever read those pulpy books with titles like The Kid Who Only Hit Homers or the guy with a submarine pitch.

1:56.6

Anyway, but yeah, it just sort of seemed like, for lack of a better word, a really good vehicle to tell a story with, you know.

2:07.7

Basketball or pizza?

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