Otherppl with Brad Listi

Brad Listi

Otherppl with Brad Listi is a weekly books and culture podcast featuring in-depth conversations with today's leading authors. Literature, screenwriting, the creative process, pop culture, and more. Available wherever you get your podcasts. Follow the show on Bluesky and Instagram.

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Dec 1, 2013 · 1 hr 15 min
Episode 230 — Ben Brooks
Ben Brooks is the guest. His new novel, Lolito, is now available from Canongate Books. Nick Cave says "Lolito is the funniest, most horrible book I've read in years. I was blown away." And The Guardian says "Both warm and uncompromising, Lolito...
Nov 27, 2013 · 1 hr 18 min
Episode 229 — Jamie Iredell
Jamie Iredell is the guest. His new essay collection, I Was a Fat Drunk Catholic School Insomniac, is now available from Future Tense. Scott McClanahan says “Jamie Iredell is one of the two or three best writers I know in this world. If...
Nov 24, 2013 · 1 hr 25 min
Episode 228 — Claire Vaye Watkins
Claire Vaye Watkins is the guest. Her debut story collection, Battleborn, is now available in paperback from Riverhead. Antonya Nelson, writing for The New York Times Book Review, says “Although individual stories stand alone, together they...
Nov 20, 2013 · 1 hr 27 min
Episode 227 — Kevin Sampsell
Kevin Sampsell is the guest. His debut novel, This is Between Us, is now available from Tin House Books. Jess Walter, author of Beautiful Ruins, says "In This Is Between Us Kevin Sampsell writes with grace and intimacy about the toughest...
Nov 17, 2013 · 1 hr 20 min
Episode 226 — Daniel Alarcón
Daniel Alarcón is the guest. His new novel, At Night We Walk in Circles, is now available from Riverhead Books. The New York Times Book Review calls it "Wise and engaging...a provocative study of the way war culture ensnares both participant...
Nov 13, 2013 · 1 hr 17 min
Episode 225 — Anne Marie Wirth Cauchon
Anne Marie Wirth Cauchon is the guest. Her debut novel, Nothing, is now available from Two Dollar Radio. Joy Williams calls it "A burning mean and darkly mysterious read." And Kate Zambreno says "I could tell you that Anne Marie Wirth Cauchon has...
Nov 10, 2013 · 1 hr 34 min
Episode 224 — Laura van den Berg
Laura van den Berg is the guest. Her new story collection, The Isle of Youth, is now available from FSG Originals. Publishers Weekly, in a starred review, raves "If ever there was a writer going places, it’s Laura van den Berg, who...
Nov 6, 2013 · 1 hr 16 min
Episode 223 — Monica Drake
Monica Drake is the guest. Her new novel, The Stud Book, is now available from Hogarth Press. Cheryl Strayed says “Monica Drake has written a take-your-breath-away good, blow-your-mind wise, crack-your-heart-open beauty of a novel. The Stud...
Nov 3, 2013 · 1 hr 21 min
Episode 222 — Doug Dorst
Doug Dorst is the guest. His latest novel, co-authored with film director J.J. Abrams, is called S. (Mulholland Books). USA Today calls it "...an intriguing and impressive experiment in storytelling that's full of paranoia, conspiracy theory,...
Oct 30, 2013 · 1 hr 8 min
Episode 221 — Jennifer duBois
Jennifer duBois is the guest. Her new novel, Cartwheel, is now available from Random House. The New York Times Book Review calls it “Psychologically astute . . . Dubois hits [the] larger sadness just right and dispenses with all the salacious...
Oct 27, 2013 · 1 hr 17 min
Episode 220 — Chelsea Martin
Chelsea Martin is the guest. Her new book, Even Though I Don't Miss You, is due out from Short Flight / Long Drive Books on November 1, 2013. Blake Butler says "Someone who should not die is Chelsea Martin." Monologue topics: Mellow...
Oct 23, 2013 · 1 hr 25 min
Episode 219 — Davis Schneiderman
Davis Schneiderman is the guest. His new novel, [SIC], is now available from Jaded Ibis Productions. [SIC] includes public domain works published under Davis Schneiderman's name, including everything from the prologue to The Canterbury Tales to...
Oct 20, 2013 · 1 hr 15 min
218. Jesmyn Ward
Jesmyn Ward is the guest. She was the 2011 recipient of the National Book Award for her novel, Salvage the Bones, and her new memoir, Men We Reaped, is now available from Bloomsbury.The New York Times Book Review raves"[Ward] chronicles our...
Oct 16, 2013 · 1 hr 8 min
Episode 217 — Chris L. Terry
Chris L. Terry is the guest. His debut novel, Zero Fade, is now available from Curbside Splendor. Audrey Niffenegger, author of The Time Traveler's Wife, says "Chris Terry has bestowed Kevin, the hero of Zero Fade, with an especially acute case...
Oct 13, 2013 · 1 hr 14 min
Episode 216 — Lauren Grodstein
Lauren Grodstein is the guest. Her new novel, The Explanation for Everything, is now available from Algonquin Books. It is the official October selection of The TNB Book Club. Tom Perrotta calls it "Very smart and touching and unexpected.” And...
Oct 9, 2013 · 1 hr 17 min
Episode 215 — Ethel Rohan
Ethel Rohan is the guest. Her new story collection, Goodnight Nobody, is now available from Queen's Ferry Press. Peter Orner raves “Ethel Rohan speaks in many voices, all of which need to be heard. She goes so deeply into the hearts and souls...
Oct 6, 2013 · 1 hr 12 min
Episode 214 — Cari Luna
Cari Luna is the guest. Her debut novel, The Revolution of Every Day, is now available from Tin House. Kirkus says "Luna creates an array of complex characters caught up in emotions, relationships and situations far from the ordinary as they examine...
Oct 2, 2013 · 1 hr 14 min
Episode 213 — Jeff Jackson
Jeff Jackson is the guest. His debut novel, Mira Corpora, is now available from Two Dollar Radio. Don DeLillo says "It's fine work in its manic pacing and its summoning of certain cultural emblems. Present tense with a vengeance. I hope the...
Sep 29, 2013 · 54 min
212. Jonathan Lethem
Jonathan Lethem is the guest. His latest novel, Dissident Gardens, is now available from Doubleday. The Los Angeles Times raves"Lethem is as ambitious as Mailer, as funny as Philip Roth and as stinging as Bob Dylan...Dissident Gardens shows...
Sep 25, 2013 · 1 hr 10 min
Episode 211 — Edwidge Danticat
Edwidge Danticat is the guest. Her new novel Claire of the Sea Light (Knopf), is the official September selection of The TNB Book Club.Kirkus says“Claire of the Sea Light reads like the work of a writer eager to create another world . . . A...