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Podcast: Otherppl with Brad Listi
Episode: 628. Emily Nemens
Description: Emily Nemens is the guest. Her debut novel, The Cactus League, is available from Farrar, Straus, & Giroux.In 2018, Nemens became the seventh editor of The Paris Review, the nation’s preeminent literary quarterly. Since her arrival, the magazine has seen record-high circulation, published two anthologies, produced a second season of its acclaimed podcast, and won the 2020 National Magazine Award for Fiction. Previously, she coedited The Southern Review, a storied literary quarterly published at Louisiana State University. Stories published during her tenure at The Southern Review were selected for the Pushcart Prize anthology, Best American Short Stories, the O. Hen...