Linda Holmes, pop culture critic and author of 'Evvie Drake Starts Over'

Bullseye with Jesse Thorn

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Society & Culture

4.7 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 28 June 2019

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Linda Holmes is a pop culture critic and host of NPR's Pop Culture Happy Hour. She just released her debut novel, Evvie Drake Starts Over. It's about love and loss and the choices we make that sometimes require us to start from scratch. Linda joins the show to talk about her start in writing and how the game of baseball contains a great lesson on the importance of perseverance.

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0:00.0	Bullseye with Jessie Thorn is a production of MaximumFun.org and is distributed by NPR.
0:12.9	It's Bullseye.
0:21.2	If you listen to NPR a lot, you probably know Linda Holmes.
0:25.3	She's NPR's pop culture critic.
0:27.3	She's also the host of the podcast, Pop Culture Happy Hour.
0:30.9	She has amazing taste in TV and movies and she loves to talk about it.
0:35.3	But Linda's first love was always writing.
0:38.6	She just released her debut novel.
0:40.5	It's called Heavy Drake starts over.
0:43.6	Linda could have mailed it in, turned in something about a great TV show or a band you've
0:48.2	never heard of, but she didn't.
0:50.4	It's a book about love and loss and the power of starting over with a little bit of baseball
0:55.1	thrown in.
0:56.4	And really, it's about what Linda knows best, a good story.
1:00.9	Linda Holmes, thanks for coming back to Bullseye.
1:02.8	Absolutely.
1:03.8	Hi, Jessie.
1:04.8	It's nice to see you.
1:05.8	It's always good to see you, buddy.
1:06.8	So, I know from being a public radio host that sometimes like a literary agent will email
1:13.1	you because literary agent is just read The New York Times and listen to NPR, okay?
1:17.6	It's true.
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