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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May 1, 2013 · 1 hr 17 min
Episode 170 — Emily Rapp
Emily Rapp is the guest. Her new memoir, The Still Point of the Turning World, is now available from Penguin. Cheryl Strayed says "The Still Point of the Turning World is about the smallest things and the biggest things, the ugliest things and the...
Apr 28, 2013 · 1 hr 13 min
Episode 169 — Fiona Maazel
Fiona Maazel is the guest. Her new novel, Woke Up Lonely, is now available from Graywolf Press. The Daily Beast says "[Maazel] has a real talent for taking these existential millstones of modern life—fear of death, failure, being alone,...
Apr 24, 2013 · 1 hr 17 min
Episode 168 — Scott Nadelson
Scott Nadelson is the guest. His new memoir, The Next Scott Nadelson: A Life in Progress, is now available from Hawthorne Books. Kirkus calls it "Eloquent and universal." And The Portland Mercury says "It’s unusual to read a memoir built of...
Apr 21, 2013 · 1 hr 19 min
Episode 167 — Tupelo Hassman
Tupelo Hassman is the guest. Her debut novel, Girlchild, has just been published in paperback by Picador. The New York Times raves "A voice as fresh as hers is so rare that at times I caught myself cheering. . . .I’d go anywhere with this...
Apr 17, 2013 · 1 hr 24 min
Episode 166 — Rob Roberge
Rob Roberge is the guest. His new novel, The Cost of Living, is now available from Other Voices Books. It is the April selection of the TNB Book Club. Cheryl Strayed says "Roberge’s writing is both drop-dead gorgeous and mindbendingly smart....
Apr 14, 2013 · 1 hr 20 min
Episode 165 — Michelle Orange
Michelle Orange is the guest. Her new essay collection, This is Running for Your Life, is now available from Farrar, Straus, & Giroux. The Daily Beast calls it "A brilliant collection of essays on modern life, and ways that technology and...
Apr 10, 2013 · 1 hr 15 min
Episode 164 — Jennifer Spiegel
Jennifer Spiegel is the guest. In 2012, she published two books: The Freak Chronicles, a story collection, now available from Dzanc Books; and Love Slave, a novel out from Unbridled Books. About The Freak Chronicles, bestselling author Lauren...
Apr 7, 2013 · 1 hr 16 min
Episode 163 — Owen King
Owen King is the guest. His new novel, Double Feature, is now available from Scribner. Karen Russell raves “What a kinetic, joyful, gonzo ride—Double Feature made me laugh so loudly on a plane that I had to describe the plot of Sam's...
Apr 3, 2013 · 1 hr 17 min
Episode 162 — Amity Gaige
Amity Gaige is the guest. Her new novel, Schroder, has just been published by Twelve, an imprint of Grand Central Publishing. Jennifer Egan says "In Schroder, Amity Gaige explores the rich, murky realm where parental devotion edges into mania, and...
Mar 31, 2013 · 1 hr 19 min
Episode 161 — Periel Aschenbrand
Periel Aschenbrand is the guest. She is the author of two memoirs, the latest of which is called On My Knees. It is available now for pre-order and will be published by Harper Perennial on June 18, 2013. Jonathan Ames raves "Ribald, outrageous,...
Mar 27, 2013 · 1 hr 21 min
Episode 160 — Giancarlo DiTrapano
Giancarlo DiTrapano is the guest. He's the editor of NY Tyrant magazine and the publisher of Tyrant Books, an independent press based in New York City. His authors include Brian Evensen, Blake Butler, Eugene Marten, and Michael Kimball. And...
Mar 24, 2013 · 1 hr 26 min
Episode 159 — Amber Dermont
Amber Dermont is the guest. Her debut novel, The Starboard Sea, was a New York Times bestseller, and her new story collection, Damage Control, is now available. Both were published by St. Martin's. Marilynne Robinson raves "With unflinching...
Mar 20, 2013 · 1 hr 23 min
Episode 158 — Tom Hansen
Tom Hansen is the guest. He is the author of the memoir American Junkie and a new novel called This is What We Do. Both are available from Emergency Press. Grace Krilanovich says "There’s what people say, and then there’s what they do....
Mar 17, 2013 · 1 hr 37 min
Episode 157 — Ayana Mathis
Ayana Mathis is today's guest. Her debut novel, The Twelve Tribes of Hattie, was an official selection of Oprah's Book Club 2.0 and has since gone on to become a New York Times bestseller. It is available now from Knopf. Kirkus, in a starred review,...
Mar 13, 2013 · 1 hr 18 min
Episode 156 — Tim Horvath
Tim Horvath is the guest. His new story collection, Understories, is now available from Bellevue Literary Press. The Minneapolis Star-Tribune calls it “Profound . . . with more to say on the human condition than most full books. . . . A...
Mar 10, 2013 · 1 hr 39 min
Episode 155 — Lenore Zion
Lenore Zion is the guest. She is the author of two books, the first of which, a humor collection called My Dead Pets Are Interesting, was published by TNB Books in 2011. And now her debut novel, Stupid Children, has just been published by Emergency...
Mar 6, 2013 · 1 hr 38 min
154. Sam Lipsyte
Sam Lipsyte is the guest. His new story collection, The Fun Parts, is now available from Farrar, Straus, & Giroux.Ben Fountain raves"Lipsyte expertly works the line between hilarity and pathos."And Publishers Weekly, in a starred review,...
Mar 3, 2013 · 2 hr 37 min
Episode 153 — Christine Sneed
Christine Sneed is the guest. Her new novel, Little Known Facts, was featured on the cover of the New York Times Book Review last week. It is available now from Bloomsbury. Booklist, in a starred review, calls it "An ensnaring first novel that delves...
Feb 27, 2013 · 1 hr 17 min
Episode 152 — Bernie Glassman
Bernie Glassman is the guest. He is a pioneer in the American Zen Movement, an accomplished academic and businessman, and the founder of the Zen Peacemakers. His new book, co-authored by Jeff Bridges, is called The Dude and the Zenmaster. A New York...
Feb 24, 2013 · 1 hr 29 min
Episode 151 — Lesley Arfin
Lesley Arfin is the guest. She was a staff writer on the first two seasons of the hit television show Girls, starring Lena Dunham, and she also writes on the MTV series Awkward. Her book, Dear Diary, is based on a column of the same name that...