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The Moment with Brian Koppelman

Soman Chainani 3/5/19

The Moment with Brian Koppelman

Brian Koppelman & Gemini XIII

Tv & Film

4.61.1K Ratings

🗓️ 5 March 2019

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

Soman Chainani on how a year spent lost in the wilderness (of New York) saves him and put him on the path to writing the best selling School For Good and Evil series. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hey, this is the moment. I'm Brian Koppelman. Are you ready for this by the way?

0:06.7

I'm so honored. This is like a slightly a pipe dream. So hey, this is the moment. I'melman thanks for listening here's the thing my

0:14.0

guest today is a super important writer and figure in the culture

0:19.3

Somen Shinani but what's more important to understand and it's hilarious that you just said,

0:26.4

oh, it's a pipe dream.

0:28.9

Somman has spent more time in my kitchen and my house with me in like sweatpants I mean the

0:36.7

opposite of any sort of a fancy or formal interaction then certainly like any guest on the show other than Amy or Levine.

0:46.5

So yeah, nothing to worry about Solomon and welcome. It's funny because you knew me really before I had a creative career.

0:57.6

So I remember I would tell you like, oh I'm working on something, something's happening, but I'm sure

1:02.2

you hear that all the time I was thinking about

1:04.5

this so Simon is most well known for being the author of the series of books that

1:09.4

started with the school for good and evil the sixth sixth book in the series is about to come out and

1:16.4

tell me what's it called? It's called a crystal of time. And but before

1:21.6

someone had written or even had made the deal for school for good and evil, he was a tutor.

1:27.0

He had a fascinating life that we're going to get into, went to Harvard and was a tennis player and was a filmmaker and went to film school and

1:36.2

made award-winning shorts and all this stuff.

1:39.6

But when I met Solman, my son was in ninth grade, I got permission to say this part, and he was his biology tutor.

1:47.0

And normally a tutor comes to the house and the last thing you want to do really is spend a lot of time

1:52.7

interacting with that person. But Somman somehow became and this isn't a cliche thing a

1:57.4

part of our family. He's he became he and Sammy are like best friends to this

2:01.3

day. He's close with Anna, our daughter and

2:04.6

so many Amy talk three times a week. So he really did now this is 10 years ago

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