Susan Straight on Riverside, Family, Ross Macdonald, and Writing in Your Car

Otherppl with Brad Listi

Brad Listi

Books, Society & Culture, Arts

4.8 • 554 Ratings

🗓️ 29 September 2023

⏱️ 27 minutes

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In today's flashback, an outtake from Episode 117, my conversation with Susan Straight, author of the novel Mecca (FSG). This episode first aired on March 5, 2014. Straight's other novels include the national bestseller Highwire Moon, a finalist for the National Book Award, and A Million Nightingales, a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, as well as the memoir In the Country of Women, named a best book of 2019 by NPR and Real Simple. She is the recipient of the Edgar Award for Best Short Story, the O. Henry Prize, the Lannan Literary Award for Fiction, and a Guggenheim Fellowship, and her stories and essays have been published in The New Yorker, The New York Times, The Guardian, Granta, Harper's Magazine, and elsewhere. She was born and continues to live in Riverside, California, with her family, where she serves as a distinguished professor of creative writing at the University of California, Riverside. *** 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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0:39.3	It is Friday, so it's time for another flashback episode.
0:44.3	Today I'm going to be sharing an outtake from episode 117, my conversation with Susan Strait.
0:51.3	It first aired on October 28th, 2012, so more than a decade ago, if you can believe it.
0:59.6	Susan Strait's most recent novel is called Mecca, published to great acclaim in 2022 by FSG.
1:08.3	It was a finalist for the Kirkus Prize. It was an NPR best book of the year, a New York Times
1:14.4	book review editor's choice. You name it. Susan Straits, other books include the national bestseller
1:21.7	Highwire Moon, which was a finalist for the National Book Award, and A Million Nightingales,
1:28.8	which was a finalist for the LA Times Book Prize. She also wrote a memoir called In the Country of Women and she is a
1:36.0	distinguished professor of creative writing at the University of California, Riverside.
1:41.2	An outtake from my conversation with Susan Strait back in 2012 is coming up in just a bit.
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