Natalie Baszile on Time, Writing, Big Decisions, Creative Community, and Motherhood

Otherppl with Brad Listi

Brad Listi

Books, Society & Culture, Arts

4.8 • 554 Ratings

🗓️ 22 September 2023

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

In today's flashback, an outtake from Episode 257, my conversation with Natalie Baszile, author of the novel Queen Sugar (Penguin Books). This episode first aired on March 5, 2014. Baszile is the author of the novel Queen Sugar, which was a San Francisco Chronicle Best Book of 2014, longlisted for the Crooks Corner Southern Book Prize, nominated for an NAACP Image Award, and adapted for television by writer/director Ava DuVernay and co-produced by Oprah Winfrey for OWN. Baszile holds a M.A. in Afro-American Studies from UCLA and is a graduate of Warren Wilson College's MFA Program for Writers. She lives in San Francisco. *** 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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0:00.0	Hey everybody, welcome to the program. This is The Other People Show. I'm Brad Listy in Los Angeles, and it is Friday. So it is time for another flashback episode. Today I'm going to be digging into the archives and sharing with you an outtake from episode 257. My conversation with author Natalie Bazile. It first aired on March 5th, 2014.
0:24.9	Natalie Bazill is the author of the novel Queen Sugar, which was named one of the San Francisco
0:31.4	Chronicles' best books of 2014 and was nominated for an NAACP Image Award.
0:38.3	Queen Sugar was later adapted for television by the Oprah Winfrey Network and director
0:44.1	Ava DuVernay to considerable acclaim.
0:48.5	Natalie Bazzil is also the author of a work of nonfiction and anthology entitled
0:53.5	We Are Each Other's Harvest,
0:56.2	celebrating African American farmers, land, and legacy.
1:01.9	So my outtake from episode 257 and my conversation with Natalie Bazzil is coming up momentarily.
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1:56.3	by Abrams books publisher of Idlewild the darkly funny debut novel by James Frankie Thomas.
2:02.7	It is set at a Quaker high school in lower Manhattan.
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