{"version":1,"type":"rich","provider_name":"Libsyn","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.libsyn.com","height":90,"width":600,"title":"Episode 412 \u2014 Kirstin Valdez Quade","description":"Kirstin Valdez Quade is the guest. Her debut\nstory collection,&amp;nbsp;Night&amp;nbsp;at the Fiestas, is now\navailable in paperback from W.W. Norton &amp;amp; Company.\nI first met Kirstin on April 1, 2016, at the Ace Hotel Theater\nin downtown Los Angeles. We were standing side-by-side in the\nwings, just&amp;nbsp;as she was being introduced at Literary Death\nMatch.&amp;nbsp;She&amp;nbsp;went&amp;nbsp;to walk out onstage, and as she did\nI turned to her and said, in a deadpan\/jokey way, &quot;Don't fuck this\nup.&quot; She smiled, but only kind of (to be fair, it was dark, and\nthings were happening fast), and then almost immediately I began to\nquestion&amp;nbsp;my judgment, wondering if the joke had been\nill-advised. The good news is, Kirstin didn't hold it against me.\nIn fact, she barely remembered it.\nIn today's monologue, I talk about mediocrity and Hollywood and\ndelusions of grandeur.\n","author_name":"Otherppl with Brad Listi","author_url":"http:\/\/otherppl.com","html":"<iframe title=\"Libsyn Player\" style=\"border: none\" src=\"\/\/html5-player.libsyn.com\/embed\/episode\/id\/4342640\/height\/90\/theme\/custom\/thumbnail\/yes\/direction\/forward\/render-playlist\/no\/custom-color\/88AA3C\/\" height=\"90\" width=\"600\" scrolling=\"no\"  allowfullscreen webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen oallowfullscreen msallowfullscreen><\/iframe>","thumbnail_url":"https:\/\/assets.libsyn.com\/secure\/content\/11623244"}