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Podcast: Otherppl with Brad Listi
Episode: 796. Jonathan Escoffery
Description: Jonathan Escoffery is the author of the debut story collection If I Survive You, available from MCD/FSG.If I Survive You is a National Book Award Nominee, an Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence Nominee, a New York Times Editorâs Choice, and an Indie National Bestseller. Escoffery is the winner of The Paris Reviewâs 2020 Plimpton Prize for Fiction and is the recipient of a 2020 National Endowment for the Arts (Prose) Literature Fellowship. His story âUnder the Ackee Treeâ was among the trio that won the Paris Review the 2020 ASME Award for Fiction from the American Socie...