Sarah Marshall
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5,318 appearances
11 recordings
2 series
first heard Nov 2025
last heard 15 Sep
Sarah Marshall’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And yet it it also did sell by a lot of word of mouth, because maybe not, you know, the word of mouth that that you and I were experiencing at the time.
Nobody told me to read it.
And and what was I reading in twenty eleven?
I was in an MFA program, so I was reading a lot of Flannery O'Connor and Raymond Carver.
Of course, gotta or Flannery O'Carver, as a friend of mine called them, and was learning to write great short stories about
You know, a preacher stealing a girl's wooden leg.
You know, that would that's the world of literary fiction.
And some figures for you.
Yeah.
This book was published in November of 2010.
It had an initial print run of 40,000.
It was published by a uh Christian publisher, which may make you think it made me think that you know, this is probably like some small underdog press.
No, there are some pretty big
Christian publishers.
Oh yeah.
The way that Heaven is for Real becomes a book is that Todd uh is connected through a friend to a Christian literary agent who works at a Christian agency.
And this is just something that my brain hadn't computed.
But Christian publishing was in 2024 an $820 million industry.
Um, and then another figure I have is that in twenty twenty five, according to publishers weekly Religion Books, which is in the United States is mostly Christian publishing, was a nine hundred and twenty six million dollar industry.
So very close to a billion.
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