Melissa Febos on Hollywood, Bullshit, Extroversion, Celibacy, Loneliness, and Relationships

Otherppl with Brad Listi

Brad Listi

Arts, Society & Culture, Books

4.8 • 554 Ratings

🗓️ 11 August 2023

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

In today's flashback, an outtake from Episode 460, my conversation with Melissa Febos, author of Body Work, Girlhood, and other books. Girlhood was a national bestseller, a Lambda Literary Award finalist, and the winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award in Criticism. Body Work was also a national bestseller, an LA Times Bestseller, and an Indie Next Pick. Her fifth book, The Dry Season, is forthcoming from Alfred. A. Knopf. *** 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, Google Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher, iHeart Radio, etc. Subscribe to Brad Listi’s email newsletter. Support the show on Patreon Merch @otherppl Instagram YouTube 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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0:22.1	all right hello everybody How are you? This is Brad Listy. I am in Los Angeles. This is the
0:27.4	Other People's Show. I hope you are doing okay. Wherever you are, thank you for listening.
0:32.8	Don't forget to subscribe to this podcast. Wherever you listen listen you can also subscribe on YouTube follow
0:38.6	the show on social media TikTok Instagram Twitter and blue sky so it's Friday it's
0:47.2	another flashback episode I'm gonna be talking with Melissa Fibos an outtake from
0:53.4	episode 460 from April 5th, 2017.
0:57.0	That is today's flashback. I hope you had a good week.
1:03.0	The summer? Is it almost over? I guess it's getting closer. It's August.
1:09.0	It feels like it went by in a blur. Everything feels like it goes by in a blur.
1:12.6	Life speeds up as you get older, doesn't it?
1:15.6	It feels that way.
1:17.6	You got to try to slow it down somehow.
1:20.6	Pay attention.
1:24.6	Don't waste your time.
1:25.6	This is what I tell myself. And yet, I often feel like I'm wasting your time. This is what I tell myself.
1:33.3	And yet, I often feel like I'm wasting my time or I'm not being time efficient.
1:34.5	I'm not getting enough done.
1:35.9	I'm not doing the things I want to do.
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