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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Sep 22, 2013 · 1 hr 17 min
Episode 210 — Curtis Sittenfeld
Curtis Sittenfeld is the guest. She is the bestselling author of the novels Prep and American Wife, and her new book, Sisterland, is now available in hardcover and ebook from Random House. The paperback edition is due out in Spring 2014. The Boston...
Sep 18, 2013 · 1 hr 27 min
Episode 209 — Tom Perrotta
Tom Perrotta is the guest. He is the author of several acclaimed works of fiction, including Election, Little Children, The Abstinence Teacher, and The Leftovers. His new story collection, Nine Inches, is now available from St. Martin's. Kirkus, in a...
Sep 15, 2013 · 1 hr 19 min
Episode 208 — Mitchell S. Jackson
Mitchell S. Jackson is the guest. His debut novel, The Residue Years, is now available from Bloomsbury. Jesmyn Ward says "I know these characters well: Champ with his swagger and invincibility, doing all he can to protect his fiercely beating heart....
Sep 11, 2013 · 1 hr 22 min
Episode 207 — Roy Kesey
Roy Kesey is the guest. His latest story collection, Any Deadly Thing, is now available from Dzanc Books. Elizabeth Crane says "Roy Kesey's stories in Any Deadly Thing are perfect, masterful portraits of an international cross-section of wise, broken...
Sep 8, 2013 · 1 hr 26 min
Episode 206 — Cal Morgan
Cal Morgan is the guest. He is a senior vice president and executive editor at the Harper division of HarperCollins, where he is also the editorial director for Harper Perennial and Harper Paperbacks. Monologue topics: voicemail, animal rights,...
Sep 4, 2013 · 1 hr 24 min
Episode 205 — Beth Lisick
Beth Lisick is the guest. Her new book, Yokohama Threeway and Other Small Shames, is due out from City Lights Publishers on September 24, 2013. Kathleen Hanna raves "This book is fucking great. There is a story in it called ‘PANDA...
Sep 1, 2013 · 1 hr 16 min
Episode 204 — Mark Leibovich
Mark Leibovich is the guest. His new book, This Town, is a #1 New York Times bestseller. It's available now from Blue Rider Press. Politico says “Not since Truman Capote’s Answered Prayers knocked New York society on its heels with its...
Aug 28, 2013 · 1 hr 19 min
Episode 203 — Peter Orner
Peter Orner is the guest. His new story collection, Last Car Over the Sagamore Bridge, is now available from Little, Brown. Tom Bissell says “Peter Orner is a true writers’ writer, which is to say a writer writers complain to...
Aug 25, 2013 · 1 hr 28 min
Episode 202 — Lindsay Hunter
Lindsay Hunter is the guest. Her new story collection, Don't Kiss Me, is now available from Farrar, Straus, & Giroux. Kirkus Reviews raves “Don’t Kiss Me, Hunter’s second short story collection, is a bold, haunting, and...
Aug 21, 2013 · 1 hr 22 min
Episode 201 — Gregory Sherl
Gregory Sherl is the guest. His new book Monogamy Songs is now available from Future Tense. The Huffington Post raves "The problem with post-confessionalism is that its most uninspired iterations have been sprinkled across America for the past...
Aug 18, 2013 · 1 hr 36 min
Episode 200 — Susan Orlean
Susan Orlean is the guest. A staff writer for The New Yorker magazine, she is also the bestselling author of several books, including The Orchid Thief and Rin Tin Tin. The New York Times Book Review raves"The collecting mania that Susan Orlean...
Aug 14, 2013 · 1 hr 16 min
Episode 199 — Peter Mattei
Peter Mattei is the guest. His new novel, The Deep Whatsis, is now available in the United States from Other Press, and in the UK from The Friday Project. Kate Christensen raves "With zingy, hilarious glee, Peter Mattei takes a sharp stick and...
Aug 11, 2013 · 1 hr 16 min
Episode 198 — Megan Abbott
Megan Abbott is the guest. Her latest novel, Dare Me, is due out in paperback from Reagan Arthur / Back Bay Books on August 27, 2013. The New York Times Book Review raves "Megan Abbott has [written]...The Great American Cheerleading Novel,...
Aug 7, 2013 · 1 hr 16 min
Episode 197 — Molly Ringwald
Molly Ringwald is the guest. Her debut novel, When It Happens to You, is now available in paperback from It Books, an imprint of HarperCollins. Lauren Groff, bestselling author of Arcadia, raves "When It Happens to You is absolutely lovely, a smart,...
Aug 4, 2013 · 1 hr 11 min
Episode 196 — Janice Clark
Janice Clark is the guest. Her debut novel, The Rathbones, is now available from Doubleday. It is the official August selection of The TNB Book Club. Publishers Weekly, in a starred review, says “A teenager comes of age and grapples with...
Jul 31, 2013 · 1 hr 20 min
Episode 195 — Adelle Waldman
Adelle Waldman is the guest. Her debut novel, The Love Affairs of Nathaniel P., is now available from Henry Holt. Jess Walter calls it “A smart, engaging 21st-century comedy of manners in which the debut novelist Adelle Waldman crawls...
Jul 28, 2013 · 1 hr 20 min
Episode 194 — Abigail Tarttelin
Abigail Tarttelin is the guest. Her new novel, Golden Boy, has just been published in the United States by Atria Books. Booklist, in a starred review, calls it “A dramatic, thoroughgoing investigation of the complexities of sexuality and...
Jul 24, 2013 · 1 hr 20 min
Episode 193 — Nick Antosca
Nick Antosca is the guest. A staff writer on the upcoming NBC show Believe, helmed by J.J. Abrams and Alfonso Cuarón, he is also the author of several books, the most recent of which is a story collection called The Girlfriend Game, available...
Jul 21, 2013 · 1 hr 18 min
Episode 192 — Alissa Nutting
Alissa Nutting is the guest. Her debut novel, Tampa, is now available from Ecco. Time magazine calls it "A gutsy attempt by a young, female author to embody a wholly unsympathetic female narrator and probe the question of whether society lets...
Jul 17, 2013 · 1 hr 31 min
Episode 191 — Elliott Holt
Elliott Holt is the guest. Her debut novel, You Are One of Them, is now available from Penguin. The New York Times Book Review raves "You Are One of Them is a hugely absorbing first novel from a writer with a fluid, vivid style and a rare knack for...