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Podcast: Otherppl with Brad Listi
Episode: 870. James Frankie Thomas
Description: James Frankie Thomas is the author of the debut novel Idlewild, available from The Overlook Press. It was the official September pick of the Otherppl Book Club.Thomas is a lifelong New Yorker. He attended the City College of New York and the Iowa Writers' Workshop. He has worked as a video store clerk, a Shakespeare tutor, and the "YA of Yore" columnist for the Paris Review; he was most recently a theater critic at Vulture. Idlewild is his first novel.***Otherppl with Brad Listi is a weekly literary podcast featuring in-depth interviews with...