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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Jul 14, 2013 · 1 hr 21 min
Episode 190 — Sean Carswell
Sean Carswell is the guest. His new novel is called Madhouse Fog. Patricia Geary says “I’m a huge fan of Carswell’s fiction: he’s intelligent, hilarious, incisive, and his ear for dialogue is extraordinary. Nevertheless, I...
Jul 10, 2013 · 1 hr 18 min
Episode 189 — Alina Simone
Alina Simone is the guest. Her debut novel, Note to Self, is now available from Faber & Faber. Sam Lipsyte says “People as multi-talented and skilled as Alina Simone, who sings beautifully, writes essays, and now foists upon us a truly...
Jul 3, 2013 · 1 hr 24 min
Episode 188 — Lee Boudreaux
Lee Boudreaux is the guest. She is the editorial director at Ecco Press and has worked with a long list of notable authors, including Stephen King, David Wroblewski, Alissa Nutting, Patrick DeWitt, and Ben Fountain. Monologue topics: mail,...
Jun 30, 2013 · 1 hr 23 min
Episode 187 — Domenica Ruta
Domenica Ruta is the guest. Her new memoir, With or Without You, is now available from Spiegel & Grau. Entertainment Weekly calls it “Stunning . . . comes across as a bleaker, funnier, R-rated version of The Glass Castle and marks the...
Jun 26, 2013 · 1 hr 23 min
Episode 186 — Erika Kleinman
Erika Kleinman is the guest. Her new mini-memoir, My Life as a Dyke, is now available as an ebook exclusive from Thought Catalog. From the publisher: "Being a lesbian doesn’t come natural to everyone. That’s what Erika Kleinman learned...
Jun 23, 2013 · 1 hr 19 min
185. Maggie Nelson
Maggie Nelson is the guest. She is the critically acclaimed author of books like The Red Parts, Bluets, and The Art of Cruelty.The New York Times Book Review calls The Art of Cruelty"An important and frequently surprising book . . . could be read...
Jun 19, 2013 · 1 hr 23 min
Episode 184 — Julie Sarkissian
Julie Sarkissian is the guest. Her debut novel, Dear Lucy, is now available from Simon & Schuster. Joyce Carol Oates says "Dear Lucy introduces a young writer with a most original voice and a tenderly eccentric vision. Julie Sarkissian has...
Jun 16, 2013 · 1 hr 22 min
Episode 183 — Matthew Savoca
Matthew Savoca is the guest. His new novel is called I Don't Know I Said, and it's available now from Publishing Genius Press. Michael Kimball says "There’s a hell of a lot more charm in Savoca’s book than a novel about sad and smart...
Jun 12, 2013 · 1 hr 19 min
Episode 182 — Emily Gould
Emily Gould is the guest. She is the author of the memoir And the Heart Says Whatever (Free Press, 2010), and her novel entitled Friendship is due out from FSG in 2014. A former co-editor at Gawker, she now runs her own publishing venture called Emily...
Jun 9, 2013 · 1 hr 19 min
181. Tao Lin (Part 2)
Tao Lin is the guest. His new novel, Taipei, is now available from Vintage Contemporaries.The New York Observer says"Tao Lin [is] an excellent writer of avant-garde fiction. His new novel is his most mature work, and follows a young New York writer...
Jun 5, 2013 · 1 hr 5 min
180. Tao Lin (Part 1)
Tao Lin is the guest. His new novel, Taipei, is now available in trade paperback from Vintage Contemporaries. Publishers Weekly, in a starred review, says"For all its straightforwardness, Lin’s previous work—with its flat,...
Jun 2, 2013 · 1 hr 21 min
Episode 179 — Melanie Thorne
Melanie Thorne is the guest. Her debut novel, Hand Me Down, is now available in paperback from Plume Books. It was named one of the Best Books of 2012 by Kirkus Reviews. BookPage calls it “Difficult to read, but impossible to put...
May 29, 2013 · 1 hr 32 min
Episode 178 — Deb Olin Unferth
Deb Olin Unferth is the guest. She's the author of three books, the most recent of which is a memoir called Revolution: The Year I Fell in Love and Went to Join the War (Henry Holt). It was a finalist for the 2012 National Book Critics Circle...
May 26, 2013 · 1 hr 11 min
Episode 177 — Masha Hamilton
Masha Hamilton is the guest. She is currently working in Afghanistan as Director of Communications and Public Diplomacy at the US Embassy, and her new novel, What Changes Everything, is now available from Unbridled Books.Caroline Leavitt raves"As...
May 22, 2013 · 1 hr 15 min
Episode 176 — Michael Reynolds
Michael Reynolds is the guest. He is the editor-in-chief of Europa Editions. Maureen Corrigan of NPR's Fresh Air says "Europa Editions...has been doing the Lord's work in terms of introducing European literary novels, many of them in translation, to...
May 19, 2013 · 1 hr 16 min
Episode 175 — Kendra Grant Malone
Kendra Grant Malone is the guest. She is the author of two poetry collections, Everything is Quiet (Scrambler Books) and Morocco (Dark Sky Books), the second of which she co-wrote with Matthew Savoca. Blake Butler says "Kendra Grant Malone...
May 15, 2013 · 1 hr 12 min
Episode 174 — Benjamin Percy
Benjamin Percy is the guest. His new novel, Red Moon, is now available from Grand Central Publishing. It is the May selection of the TNB Book Club. John Irving says "Red Moon is a serious, politically symbolic novel—a literary novel about...
May 12, 2013 · 1 hr 13 min
Episode 173 — Anna Stothard
Anna Stothard is the guest. Her novel The Pink Hotel is now available in the United States from Picador. And her latest effort, a novel called The Art of Leaving, is just out in the UK from Alma Books. The New York Times calls The Pink...
May 8, 2013 · 1 hr 21 min
Episode 172 — Ken Baumann
Ken Baumann is the guest. He is an actor, writer, and publisher. His new novel, Solip, is now available from Tyrant Books.HTML Giant says:"There is nothing on the back cover. A wall of black staring at you. No pull quotes or blurbs, and by the...
May 5, 2013 · 1 hr 21 min
Episode 171 — Matt Nelson
Matt Nelson is the guest. Along with Jacob Perkins, he is the co-founder of the Mellow Pages Library in Brooklyn, New York. The library was recently featured in the New York Times: "Matt Nelson, a graduate student in creative writing at...