STORYBOUND: Tommy Orange

The Process with Jude Brewer

Jude Brewer

Science, Technology, Society & Culture

4.8 • 763 Ratings

🗓️ 21 July 2020

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Tommy Orange reads his short story "Copperopolis" with sound design by Jude Brewer and music composition from Ryan Dann of Holland Patent Public Library. Tommy Orange is faculty at the Institute of American Indian Arts MFA program. He is an enrolled member of the Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes of Oklahoma. He was born and raised in Oakland, California, and currently lives in Angels Camp, California. He’s the author of There There, which was one of the finalists for the 2019 Pulitzer Prize, a winner of the American Book Awards, was named one of the ten best books of 2018 by the New York Times Book Review, won the Center for Fiction’s First Novel Prize, and was named one of the best books of the year by the The Washington Post, NPR, Time, O, The Oprah Magazine, San Francisco Chronicle, Entertainment Weekly, The Boston Globe, GQ, The Dallas Morning News, Buzzfeed, BookPage, Publishers Weekly, Library Journal, Kirkus Reviews. Ryan Dann is a sound designer and composer based in Brooklyn, New York. His resume ranges from festival circuit short films like The Music Lesson to composing all the original music for Joe Pera Talks With You, a comedy on Adult Swim, and producing podcasts through the Podglomerate network. He recently won the Brave+Bold Award at the Sarah Awards and has been in the process of pitching an original audio drama to Audible. Sandwiched in between these projects, he’s been working on a second album for his personal music project, Holland Patent Public Library. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Being a marketer is no sweat. You just have to manage dozens of channels, launch hundreds of campaigns, score thousands of leads and, okay, fine, it's a lot of sweat. Unless you have HubSpot's AI-powered marketing tools to help you do all that and more. Get started at HubSpot.com slash marketers. This is Tommy Orange, and you're listening to Storybound.
0:23.6	Welcome to Storybound. Welcome to Storybound, presented by Lit Hub Radio and the podglomerate.
0:30.6	I'm your host, Jude Brewer.
0:32.6	Coming to the one minute, you'll get to hear Tommy Orange read his story, Copperopolis,
0:46.7	with an original score by Ryan Dan of Holland Patent Library.
0:52.3	And if you stick around until after the credits, you'll get to hear something special.
0:56.1	So let's settle in for the show. On my days off, I walked the narrow blacktop roads of an area called Diamond 20 in the small town of Copperopolis.
1:23.3	We're in the foothills of the Sierras now, just barely still in what can be considered
1:27.6	Northern California.
1:30.6	The sun's right above me, pressing on the back of my neck.
1:34.8	I reach back and cover it, keep my hand there.
1:39.1	It's the middle of the day in the middle of the summer, which out here means it's hot
1:42.5	as hell.
1:43.5	I'm just coming back from one.
1:46.0	A hell.
1:47.0	Or I'm still in one and I've gotten so used to it, I started calling it something else.
1:52.0	No, this isn't hell. It's just fucking hot.
1:56.0	The heat here is dry and mean and everywhere.
2:00.0	It crushes, seeps, floats up in waves like smoke from the pavement, gets into the brain,
2:08.1	slows thinking.
2:09.8	I pass under the shade of an oak and look down at my shadow, which is joined by the shadow of a tree.
2:22.3	So mangled by or mingled with branch shadows, it becomes a new thing. The shadowed object, like and not like me or the tree.
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