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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Feb 20, 2013 · 1 hr 15 min
Episode 150 — Jordan Castro
Jordan Castro is the guest. He is the author of several books, and his latest is a poetry collection called Young Americans, available now from Civil Coping Mechanisms. Ben Brooks, author of Grow Up, says “I read these poems three times in one...
Feb 20, 2013 · 40 min
Late Nite with Megan, Mira, & Sam
A conversation with Megan Boyle, Mira Gonzalez, and a guy named Sam. Recorded late at night on February 13th/14th, 2013. Megan, Mira, and Sam were in Tao Lin's apartment in New York City. (Tao was not there; he was out of the country...
Feb 17, 2013 · 1 hr 34 min
Episode 149 — Terry Tempest Williams
Terry Tempest Williams is the guest. She is the author of several books, including the environmental literature classic, Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place. Her latest book is called When Women Were Birds: Fifty-Four Variations on...
Feb 13, 2013 · 1 hr 21 min
Episode 148 — Michael Robbins
Michael Robbins is the guest. His debut poetry collection, Alien vs. Predator, was named one of the best books of 2012 by The New York Times, Slate, Commonweal, Vol. 1 Brooklyn, and The Millions. Dwight Garner of the The New York Times...
Feb 10, 2013 · 1 hr 43 min
Episode 147 — Joyce Johnson
Joyce Johnson is the guest. She is the author of several books, the most recent of which is called The Voice is All: The Lonely Victory of Jack Kerouac, available now from Viking. Kirkus calls it “An exemplary biography of the Beat icon...
Feb 6, 2013 · 1 hr 15 min
Episode 146 — James Lasdun
James Lasdun is the guest. He is the author of two novels, four collections of poetry, and two collections of short stories, including the collection The Siege, the title story of which was made into a film by Bernardo Bertolucci (Besieged). With...
Feb 3, 2013 · 2 hr 8 min
Episode 145 — Matthew Salesses
Matthew Salesses is the guest. He is the author of two chapbooks, Our Island of Epidemics and We Will Take What We Can Get, and his new novel is called I'm Not Saying, I'm Just Saying, which is published by Civil Coping Mechanisms. Matt Bell...
Jan 30, 2013 · 1 hr 31 min
Episode 144 — Andrea Seigel
Andrea Seigel is the guest. She is the author of three novels: Like the Red Panda, To Feel Stuff, and The Kid Table. She's also an accomplished screenwriter. Chuck Klosterman says "If Helen Fielding had been born in 1979 and become a hyper-precocious...
Jan 27, 2013 · 1 hr 10 min
Episode 143 — Teddy Wayne
Teddy Wayne is the guest. He is the author of the novel Kapitoil (Harper Perennial), for which he was the winner of a 2011 Whiting Writers' Award. He has also been the recipient of a New York Public Library Young Lions Fiction Award and the Dayton...
Jan 23, 2013 · 1 hr 15 min
Episode 142 — Richard Chiem
Richard Chiem is the guest. He is the author of You Private Person, a collection of short stories published by Scrambler Books. Blake Butler says "Richard Chiem's You Private Person is a bustling prism of a thing, full of passages that actually lead...
Jan 20, 2013 · 2 hr 14 min
Episode 141 — Kate Zambreno
Kate Zambreno is the guest. She is the author of two novels, O Fallen Angel and Green Girl, and her latest book is a critical memoir called Heroines, now available from Semiotext(e). The Paris Review raves"It should come as no surprise that...
Jan 16, 2013 · 1 hr 22 min
Episode 140 — Rosie Schaap
Rosie Schaap is the guest. She is a contributor to This American Life and npr.org, and she writes the monthly "Drink" column for The New York Times Magazine. Her memoir, Drinking With Men, will be published on January 24, 2013 by Riverhead Books. Kate...
Jan 13, 2013 · 1 hr 15 min
Episode 139 — xTx
xTx is the guest. She is the author of the story collection Normally Special, and her new chapbook, Billie the Bull, has just been published by Nephew, an imprint of Mud Luscious Press. Says Dennis Cooper: “xTx is the complete young literary...
Jan 9, 2013 · 1 hr 28 min
Episode 138 — Panio Gianopoulos
Panio Gianopoulos is the guest. He's the author of the novella A Familiar Beast, now available from Nouvella Books. Jim Lynch, author of Truth Like the Sun, raves “A Familiar Beast is superb. Always engaging and often provocative, it...
Jan 6, 2013 · 1 hr 19 min
Episode 137 — Eli Horowitz
Eli Horowitz is the guest. He was the managing editor and then publisher of McSweeney’s for eight years, where he worked closely with a variety of notable authors, including Michael Chabon, Joyce Carol Oates, and William Vollmann. His latest...
Jan 2, 2013 · 1 hr 17 min
Episode 136 — Christine Schutt
Christine Schutt is today's guest. She's the award-winning author of several books. Her first novel, Florida, was a National Book Award finalist, and her second novel, All Souls, was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. Her latest novel,...
Dec 30, 2012 · 1 hr 24 min
Episode 135 — Brian Allen Carr
Brian Allen Carr is today's guest. He is the award-winning author of the story collection Short Bus, and his latest collection, Vampire Conditions, is now available from Holler Presents. Harrold Jaffe says "Vampire Conditions melds a precise Texas...
Dec 26, 2012 · 1 hr 13 min
Episode 134 — Robert Kloss
Robert Kloss is the guest. His latest novel, The Alligators of Abraham, is now available from Mud Luscious Press. David Ohle raves "In this amazing, collapsed-time text, I’m led along dark alleys of American history by an all-seeing voice-over...
Dec 23, 2012 · 1 hr 24 min
Episode 133 — Mira Gonzalez
Mira Gonzalez is today's guest. Her debut poetry collection is called I Will Never Be Beautiful Enough to Make Us Beautiful Together. It is due out from Sorry House in late January 2013. Blake Butler says "Mira Gonzalez’s brain spans the...
Dec 19, 2012 · 1 hr 15 min
Episode 132 — Diana Wagman
Diana Wagman is the guest. She is the author of four novels and a past recipient of the PEN West Award for Fiction. Her latest novel, The Care and Feeding of Exotic Pets, is now available from Ig Publishing. It is the December selection of The...