REPLAY: Claire Hoffman

Otherppl with Brad Listi

Brad Listi

Arts, Society & Culture, Books

4.8 • 555 Ratings

🗓️ 28 December 2025

⏱️ 89 minutes

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Original air date: June 10, 2025.⁠ Claire Hoffman⁠ is the author of ⁠Sister, Sinner: The Miraculous Life and Mysterious Disappearance of Aimee Semple McPherson⁠, available from Farrar, Straus, & Giroux. Hoffman is also the author of the memoir Greetings from Utopia Park and is a journalist reporting for national magazines on culture, religion, celebrity, business, and more. She was formerly a staff reporter for the Los Angeles Times and Rolling Stone. She is a graduate of UC Santa Cruz, and has an MA in religion from the University of Chicago and an MA in journalism from Columbia University. She serves on the boards of the Columbia School of Journalism, ProPublica, and the Brooklyn Public Library. *** ⁠⁠⁠⁠Otherppl with Brad Listi⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ is a weekly 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 ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Instagram⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Bluesky⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Email the show: letters [at] otherppl [dot] com The podcast is an ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠affiliate partner of Bookshop⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, working to support local, independent bookstores. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:45.1	Okay, welcome to The Other People Show, a weekly podcast featuring in-depth interviews with today's leading writers.
0:58.4	My name is Brad Listy, and I am here in Los Angeles, California.
1:02.6	It's great to be with you.
1:04.3	Thank you for tuning in.
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1:18.0	So my guest today is Claire Hoffman, author of a new book called Sister Sinner, The Miraculous
1:25.8	Life and Mysterious Disappearance of Amy Semple McPherson. It is available from
1:31.8	Farrar, Strauss, and Giroux, and it is a superb book about a quintessentially American figure.
1:39.3	Never mind the fact that Amy Semple MacPherson is actually Canadian, I feel like there's something very
1:44.5	American about her and her story in its totality. For those of you who don't know who Amy Semple-McPherson
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