Jonathan Ames on Insecurity, Writing, Youth, Time, Choices, Failure, Letting Go, Luck, David Letterman, and Hollywood Meetings

Otherppl with Brad Listi

Brad Listi

Books, Society & Culture, Arts

4.8 • 554 Ratings

🗓️ 17 November 2023

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

In today's flashback, an outtake from Episode 520, my conversation with author Jonathan Ames. Ames is the author of several books, including I Pass Like Night; The Extra Man; What's Not to Love?; My Less Than Secret Life; Wake Up, Sir!; I Love You More Than You Know; The Alcoholic; The Double Life Is Twice as Good, and most recently, a string of noir novels, including You Were Never Really Here (which was dapted into the acclaimed film starring Joaquin Phoenix), A Man Named Doll, and The Wheel of Doll. He is also the creator of two television series, Blunt Talk and Bored to Death, and has had two amateur boxing matches, fighting as "The Herring Wonder." *** 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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0:00.0	Hey everybody, welcome to The Other People Show. I'm Brad Listy and I'm here in Los Angeles, California. It's nice to be with you.
0:09.0	Hope everything is going all right. I have another flashback episode for you today. I am going to be sharing an outtake from episode 520.
0:20.0	My conversation with author Jonathan Ames.
0:23.9	It first aired on May 16th, 2018.
0:28.5	Don't forget to subscribe to this show.
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0:33.6	Follow the other people podcast on social media,
0:37.1	TikTok, Instagram, Twitter, and Blue Sky.
0:42.0	Jonathan Ames is the author of several books, including,
0:46.2	I Pass Like Night, The Extra Man, What's Not to Love, My Less Than Secret Life,
0:58.9	The Alcoholic, The Double Life is Twice As Good, not to love my less than secret life the alcoholic the double life is twice as good and most recently a string of noir novels including you were never really here which was adapted into a film
1:05.4	starring Joaquin phoenix another one called a man named doll, and another called the Wheel of Doll.
1:15.2	Jonathan Ames is also the creator of two television series, Blunt Talk and Bored to Death.
1:23.5	An outtake from episode 520, my conversation with Jonathan Ames is coming up in just a couple of minutes.
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