Lissa Soep

Jan 12, 2025 | bookoftheday.nextbigideaclub.com | Lissa Soep |Adaira I. Landry |Resa E. Lewiss |Gabriel Reilich

No matter our circumstances, happiness is always an option—but this is easier said than done. Is it true that we just need to grin and bear it? Fake it till we actually feel a flicker of joy ignite? When it comes to happiness, there is no one way to find it, but there is a science to what makes us shine from within. Be it grief, burnout, or cynicism, these books about happiness offer brilliant advice for finding your way out of the darkness and into an inspired, content, happy way of life.

Apr 18, 2024 | nprillinois.org | Lissa Soep

Do you sometimes speak in “Other People’s Words”? After Lissa Soep lost two of her closest friends, the Vox Media journalist realized she often heard her friends’ words come out of her own mouth, words that had been left behind in poetry, postcards, texts, emails and voice messages.

Apr 18, 2024 | boisestatepublicradio.org | Lissa Soep

Host Robin Young speaks with author and Vox Media senior editor Lissa Soep about her new book, “Other People’s Words: Friendship, Loss, and the Conversations that Never End.” In the book, Soep remembers two close friends who died and reflects on how their voices continue to speak to and through their loved ones and her. Book excerpt: ‘Other People’s Words’ By Lissa Soep This article was originally published on WBUR.org.

Apr 16, 2024 | lithub.com | Lissa Soep

As I was preparing to record the audiobook version of my forthcoming memoir, Other People’s Words, I had some questions: What do five exclamation points in a row sound like? Four question marks? Strings and strings of periods? My publisher, Spiegel and Grau, had booked three marathon recording sessions for me to narrate the story.

Apr 16, 2024 | kirkusreviews.com | Lissa Soep |Stephanie Johnson |Brandon Stanton |

An homage to two deceased friends and the ways in which their voices persist. “In grief,” writes Soep, an audio editor, “our voices find life through the dialogues they contain.” When in graduate school at Stanford, the author and her now-husband, Chas, grew close with two couples: Mercy and Christine, then Emily and Jonnie. After decades of sustaining friendship, Jonnie and Christine passed away, the former in a freak swimming accident and the latter from an inexplicable illness.