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 16, 2012 · 1 hr 33 min
Episode 131 — Ned Vizzini
Ned Vizzini is today's guest. He is the award-winning author of It's Kind of a Funny Story (also a major motion picture), Be More Chill, and Teen Angst? Naaah.... In television, he has written for MTV and ABC. His essays and criticism have appeared in...
Dec 12, 2012 · 1 hr 20 min
Episode 130 — Zena el Khalil
Zena el Khalil is the guest. She is an installation artist, curator, cultural activist, and author. During the July 2006 attacks on Lebanon, her blog, beirutupdate.blogspot.co/uk, was published on CNN and the BCC. In 2008, she was invited...
Dec 9, 2012 · 1 hr 14 min
Episode 129 — Salvatore Pane
Salvatore Pane is the guest. His chapbook, #KanyeWestSavedFromDrowning, was published by NAP in October, and his debut novel, Last Call in the City of Bridges, is now available from Braddock Avenue Books. Stewart O'Nan raves “Like his post...
Dec 5, 2012 · 1 hr 17 min
Episode 128 — Lydia Millet
Lydia Millet is the guest. She is a Guggenheim fellow, a past recipient of the PEN-USA Award for Fiction, and her story collection, Love in Infant Monkeys (2009), was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. Her latest novel, Magnificence, is now...
Dec 2, 2012 · 1 hr 14 min
Episode 127 — Eric Raymond
Eric Raymond is today's guest. His debut novel, Confessions from a Dark Wood, is now available from Sator Press. Sam Lipsyte raves "The world of Eric Raymond's winning novel may be the 'post-idea economy,' but rest assured, the book is never...
Nov 28, 2012 · 1 hr 12 min
Episode 126 — Erika Rae
Erika Rae is today's guest. Her debut memoir, Devangelical, will be published by Emergency Press on December 11, 2012. Laurie Notaro, author of The Idiot Girl's Action-Adventure Club, raves “I'm a believer that Erika Rae will make you...
Nov 25, 2012 · 1 hr 17 min
Episode 125 — Michael Kardos
Michael Kardos is the guest. His debut novel, The Three-Day Affair, is now available from Mysterious Press. The New York Times says Michael Kardos’s first novel, THE THREE-DAY AFFAIR (Mysterious Press, $24), is so disturbing it makes you wonder...
Nov 21, 2012 · 1 hr 13 min
Episode 124 — Karen Engelmann
Karen Engelmann is the guest. Her debut novel, The Stockholm Octavo, is now available from Ecco. Publishers Weekly, in a starred review, says "Neatly mixing revolutionary politics with the erotic tension and cutthroat rivalry of the...
Nov 18, 2012 · 1 hr 11 min
Episode 123 — Sam Pink
Sam Pink is the guest. He is the author of several books, including the novel Person. And his latest novel, Rontel, is due out from Lazy Fascist Press in February 2013. Electric Literature raves "Reading Sam Pink may make you a...
Nov 14, 2012 · 1 hr 9 min
Episode 122 — T.C. Boyle
T.C. Boyle is the guest. He is the author of twenty-three books of fiction, including The Tortilla Curtain, Drop City, and World's End, for which he won the PEN/Faulkner award. His latest novel, San Miguel, is now available from...
Nov 11, 2012 · 1 hr 15 min
Episode 121 — Lisa Carver
Lisa Carver is the guest. Also known as Lisa Suckdog, she is a writer and performance artist whose latest book is called Reaching Out with No Hands: Reconsidering Yoko Ono, now available from Backbeat Books. Zoe Zolbrod, author of...
Nov 7, 2012 · 1 hr 10 min
Episode 120 — Michael Kimball
Michael Kimball is the guest. He is the author of four books, the latest of which is a novel called Big Ray, now available in hardcover from Bloomsbury. The Wall Street Journal calls it "[An] astonishingly moving novel... We're left...
Nov 4, 2012 · 1 hr 17 min
Episode 119 — Julie Klam
Julie Klam is the guest. She is the author of several books, the most recent of which is called Friendkeeping: A Field Guide to the People You Love, Hate, and Can't Live Without, now available from Riverhead. Kirkus raves "Klam's voice is often...
Oct 31, 2012 · 1 hr 14 min
Episode 118 — J. Robert Lennon
J. Robert Lennon is today's guest. He is the author of several books, and his latest novel, Familiar, is now available from Graywolf Press. The New York Times Book Review raves “Over the last decade, J. Robert Lennon’s literary...
Oct 28, 2012 · 1 hr 17 min
Episode 117 — Susan Straight
Susan Straight is the guest. She is the author of several books and has been a finalist for the National Book Award. Her new novel, Between Heaven and Here, is now available from McSweeney's. Ayelet Waldman raves "It is only the...
Oct 24, 2012 · 1 hr 28 min
Episode 116 — Antoine Wilson
Antoine Wilson is today's guest. He's the author of two novels, the most recent of which is called Panorama City, now available from Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. Publishers Weekly, in a starred review, says "Wilson’s second novel...
Oct 21, 2012 · 1 hr 18 min
Episode 115 - Jami Attenberg
Jami Attenberg is the guest. Her new novel, The Middlesteins, is now available from Grand Central Publishing. Jonathan Franzen raves "The Middlesteins had me from its very first pages, but it wasn't until its final pages that I fully...
Oct 17, 2012 · 1 hr 22 min
Episode 114 — Sean Beaudoin
Sean Beaudoin is today's guest. He's the author of several books, the most recent of which is a novel called The Infects, now available from Candlewick Press. Publishers Weekly raves "Horror goes hand in hand with dark comedy in this wickedly unpr
Oct 14, 2012 · 1 hr 16 min
Episode 113 — Paula Bomer
Paula Bomer is today's guest. She's the author of two books, the most recent of which is a novel called Nine Months, which is available now from Soho Press. Library Journal calls it A raw, darkly funny, at times appalling page-turner.... Mommy lit...
Oct 10, 2012 · 1 hr 19 min
Episode 112 — Lorin Stein
Lorin Stein is the guest. He is the editor of The Paris Review and the co-editor (with Sadie Stein) of a new anthology called Object Lessons: The Paris Review Presents the Art of the Short Story, now available from Picador Paperback...