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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Oct 7, 2012 · 1 hr 11 min
Episode 111 — Kathleen Alcott
Kathleen Alcott is today's guest. Her debut novel, THE DANGERS OF PROXIMAL ALPHABETS, is now available from Other Press. Bookslut raves "Heartbreaking, honest, and wholly engrossing, 'The Dangers of Proximal Alphabets' dredges the depth of love that...
Oct 3, 2012 · 1 hr 17 min
110. Steven Gillis
Steven Gillis is today's guest. He's the author of several books and the co-founder of Dzanc Books. His latest story collection, THE LAW OF STRINGS, is now available from Atticus Books. Stephen Dixon raves "[T]his story collection hooked me from st...
Sep 30, 2012 · 1 hr 3 min
Episode 109 — Benjamin Wood
Benjamin Wood is the guest. His debut novel, THE BELLWETHER REVIVALS, is now available from Viking in the United States and Simon & Schuster in the UK. THE BELLWETHER REVIVALS was an official selection of The TNB Book Club.
Sep 26, 2012 · 1 hr 11 min
Episode 108 — Amber Sparks
Amber Sparks is today's guest. Her debut story collection, MAY WE SHED THESE HUMAN BODIES, is now available from Curbside Splendor. Raves Michael Kimball: "There was Aesop, Thomas Bulfinch, Edith Hamilton,
Sep 23, 2012 · 1 hr 17 min
Episode 107 — D.T. Max
D.T. Max is the guest. He's the author of EVERY LOVE STORY IS A GHOST STORY: A LIFE OF DAVID FOSTER WALLACE, now available from Viking. Michiko Kakutani of The New York Times says: "In his revealing new biography, D.T.
Sep 19, 2012 · 1 hr 12 min
106. Thad Ziolkowski
Thad Ziolkowski is today's guest. He's the author of the memoir ON A WAVE (Grove/Atlantic), which was nominated for the 2003 PEN/Martha Albrand Award, and his debut novel, WICHITA, is now available from Tonga Books, an imprint of Europa Editions.
Sep 16, 2012 · 1 hr 19 min
105. Leigh Stein
A conversation with Leigh Stein, author of the novel THE FALLBACK PLAN.
Sep 12, 2012 · 1 hr 13 min
Episode 104 — David Abrams
David Abrams is the guest. He's the author of the debut novel FOBBIT, which is now available from Grove/Atlantic. Publishers Weekly, in a starred reviews, says "Abrams’s debut is a harrowing satire of the Iraq War and an instant classic....Abrams,
Sep 9, 2012 · 1 hr 11 min
Episode 103 — Dana Johnson
Dana Johnson is the guest. She's the author of the story collection BREAK ANY WOMAN DOWN, winner of the Flannery O'Connor award for short fiction, and her debut novel, ELSEWHERE, CALIFORNIA, is now available from Counterpoint.
Sep 5, 2012 · 1 hr 16 min
Episode 102 — Alix Ohlin
Alix Ohlin is the guest. She's the author of several books, the most recent of which are the story collection SIGNS AND WONDERS, available now from Vintage, and a novel called INSIDE, available Knopf. Both were published in June of this year.
Sep 2, 2012 · 1 hr 13 min
101. Matthew Batt
Matthew Batt is the author of the memoir Sugarhouse (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt). Support independent bookstores! Buy your copy here. Batt's work has appeared in Tin House and on The Huffington Post and elsewhere. The Missouri Review called him a "heavy hitter" of nonfiction, and he's been nominated six times for the Pushcart Prize and is the recipient of an individual Artist Grant from the National Endowment for the Arts. *** Otherppl with Brad Listi is a weekly literary podcast featuring in-depth interviews with today's leading writers. Launched in 2011. Books. Literature. Writing. Publishing. Authors. Screenwriters. Life. Death. Etc. Support the show on Patreon / get merch Merch www.otherppl.com @otherppl Instagram Email the show: letters [at] otherppl [dot] com Get Otherppl t-shirts, sweatshirts, etc. The podcast is a proud affiliate partner of Bookshop, working to support local, independent bookstores. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Aug 29, 2012 · 1 hr 20 min
Episode 100 — George Saunders
George Saunders is today's guest. He's the bestselling author of several books, including CivilWarLand in Bad Decline, Pastoralia, and The Braindead Megaphone, and his brand new story collection, TENTH OF DECEMBER,
Aug 26, 2012 · 1 hr 9 min
99. Elizabeth Ellen
Elizabeth Ellen is the author of the chapbook Before You She was a Pit Bull (Future Tense) and Fast Machine, a collection of her best work from the last decade. Support indie bookstores! Shop here. Ellen's stories, poems and essays have appeared in numerous online and print journals over the last 15 years, including elimae, Hobart, Fanzine, Bookslut, Muumuu House, BOMBBLOG, American Short Fiction, New York Tyrant, McSweeney’s, The Guardian, Joyland, Catapult, Bennington Review, FENCE, and Salon. In 2012 Ellen received a Pushcart Prize for her story, “Teen Culture,” originally published in American Short Fiction and included in her second story collection, Saul Stories (SF/LD, 2017). She is also the author of the story collection Fast Machine (a cult classic published in 2012), the novel Person/a, and the poetry collection Elizabeth Ellen. She is deputy editor at the literary journal Hobart, and, in 2006, Ellen founded Short Flight/Long Drive Books (SF/LD). Through SF/LD, she has published and edited such seminal works as Mary Miller's Big World, Chelsea Martin's Even Though I Don't Miss You, and Chloe Caldwell's Women, among many others. In 2014, Ellen authored a controversial essay for which she was removed from an anthology of ‘provocative women writers’ to be published by Black Lawrence Press. Upon Ellen's public removal from the anthology, several other prominent female writers pulled their names and contributions from the anthology in support of Ellen, including Roxane Gay, Cheryl Strayed, Laura van den Berg, Amelia Gray, Lindsay Hunter, xTx, Mary Miller and Jac Jemc. *** Otherppl with Brad Listi is a weekly literary podcast featuring in-depth interviews with today's leading writers. Launched in 2011. Books. Literature. Writing. Publishing. Authors. Screenwriters. Life. Death. Etc. Support the show on Patreon / get merch. www.otherppl.com @otherppl Instagram Email the show: letters [at] otherppl [dot] com The podcast is a proud affiliate partner of Bookshop, working to support local, independent bookstores. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Aug 22, 2012 · 1 hr 13 min
Episode 98 — Pauls Toutonghi
Pauls Toutonghi is today's guest. He's the author of two novels, the latest of which is called EVEL KNIEVEL DAYS, now available from Crown Books. Kirkus, in a starred review, calls it "[A] superb literary effort....
Aug 19, 2012 · 1 hr 14 min
Episode 97 — Oksana Marafioti
Oksana Marafioti is today's guest. She's the author of a new memoir called AMERICAN GYPSY, now available from Farrar, Straus, & Giroux. Kirkus calls it "Engaging . . . Marafioti describes with humor and introspection how the self-described ‘Split Na.
Aug 15, 2012 · 1 hr 25 min
Episode 96 — Steve Roggenbuck
Steve Roggenbuck is the guest. He is a traveling poet-slash-blogger whose latest poetry collection, CRUNK JUICE, is now available from Lief Books. He also hosts a weekly, web-based television show called THE ILLUMINATI POWER HOUR,
Aug 12, 2012 · 1 hr 10 min
Episode 95 — Maria Semple
Maria Semple is today's guest. For years she worked in television, writing for shows like Mad About You and Arrested Development. Then, in 2008, she published her debut novel, THIS ONE IS MINE. Her follow-up effort, a novel called WHERE'D YOU GO,
Aug 8, 2012 · 1 hr 12 min
Episode 94 — Karl Taro Greenfeld
Karl Taro Greenfeld is the guest. He's a journalist who has written for The Nation, Time magazine, and Sports Illustrated. And he's the author of six books, the most recent of which is a novel called TRIBURBIA, now available from Harper. Booklist,
Aug 5, 2012 · 1 hr 10 min
93. Lidia Yuknavitch
Lidia Yuknavitch is the author of the debut novel Dora: A Headcase (Hawthorne Books). Support indie booksellers! Also by Lidia Yuknavitch: The Chronology of Water: A Memoir The Book of Joan: A Novel The Misfit's Manifesto Allegories of Violence The Small Backs of Children Yuknavitch is the National Bestselling author of the novels The Small Backs of Children, Dora: A Headcase, and the memoir The Chronology of Water. Her writing has appeared in publications including Guernica Magazine, Ms., The Iowa Review, Zyzzyva, Another Chicago Magazine, The Sun, Exquisite Corpse, and TANK. She writes, teaches and lives in Portland, OR. *** Otherppl with Brad Listi is a weekly literary podcast featuring in-depth interviews with today's leading writers. Launched in 2011. Books. Literature. Writing. Publishing. Authors. Screenwriters. Life. Death. Etc. Support the show on Patreon / get Merch www.otherppl.com @otherppl Instagram Email the show: letters [at] otherppl [dot] com The podcast is a proud affiliate partner of Bookshop, working to support local, independent bookstores. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Aug 1, 2012 · 1 hr 9 min
Episode 92 — Patrick Wensink
Patrick Wensink is today's guest. His latest novel, BROKEN PIANO FOR PRESIDENT, is now available from Lazy Fascist Press. It recently incited an unusually kind cease-and-desist letter from Jack Daniel's, Inc.