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Episode 100 — George Saunders
George Saunders is today’s guest. He’s the bestselling author of several books, including CivilWarLand in Bad Decline, Pastoralia, and The Braindead Megaphone, and his brand new story collection, Tenth of December, is due out from Random House in January 2013. … Continue reading →
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Tagged as absurdist tendencies, Amarillo, Atlas Shrugged, authors, Ayn Rand, Brad Listi, Bruce Springsteen, Buddha Boy, capitalism, Catholicism, Chicago, CivilWarLand in Bad Decline, Colorado School of Mines, control, David Letterman, discipline, drinking, energy, engineering, Ernest Hemingway, fallow periods, George Saunders, GQ, graduate school, guilt, happiness, hitchhiking, hopefulness, In Persuasion Nation, interview, Jack Kerouac, Jane Austen, Jessica Alba, Kahlil Gibran, MacArthur Genius Grant, Marfa, Marxism, objectivism, Pastoralia, performance, podcasts, population density, publishing, realism, short stories, Singapore, slaughterhouses, spontaneity, sports, Steve Martin, struggle, Stuart Dybek, Sumatra, Susan Sontag, Syracuse, Tenth of December, Terry Eagleton, The Braindead Megaphone, The New Yorker, the physical world, Visions of Gerard, Winesburg Ohio, writing at work
Episode 82 — Jürgen Fauth
Today’s episode of Other People is brought to you by Audible.com. And here’s a special offer: Right now, listeners of this program can get a free audiobook download and a free 30-day trial. To get your free audiobook, just click … Continue reading →
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Tagged as ambition, artist, Berlin, big town, Billy Wilder, Catching the Big Fish, cinema, control, courage, David Lynch, discipline, Dominican Republic, Dostoyevsky, dual citizenship, expressiveness, Fictionaut, focus, Fritz Lang, German history, Germany, health care, immigration, Joseph Goebbels, Le Corbeau, Leni Riefenstahl, Maharishi, Mainz, MFAs, Mississippi College, monetizing, nationalism, Nazis, New Orleans, operettas, patriotism, propaganda, psychotherapy, small town, spa towns, stress relief, subversion, taxes, Third Reich, Thomas Mann, Titanic, TM, transcendental meditation, uncertainty, unscripted, Weimar Republic, Wiesbaden
Episode 49 — Joe Blair
Joe Blair is the guest. He’s the author of the memoir By the Iowa Sea, now available from Scribner. Scott Spencer, author of Main in the Woods, raves: An intimate, startling memoir that honors and elevates our quotidian existence. With … Continue reading →
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Tagged as author interview podcasts, author interviews, authors, autism, books, Brad Listi, By the Iowa Sea, Cedar Rapids flood 2008, children, control, divorce, fear, forgiveness, hope, impermanence, infidelity, Iowa City flood 2008, Iowa River, Jack Kerouac, Joe Blair, literature, love, marriage, Massachusetts, memoirs, metaphors, motorcycles, new memoirs, new nonfiction, nonfiction, Other People with Brad Listi, pain, podcasts, publishing, reconciliation, sex, special needs children, special needs families, special needs parents, travel, tuberous sclerosis, writers, writing, writing workshops
