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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 13, 2012 · 1 hr 17 minEpisode 69 — Etgar Keret
Etgar Keret is the guest. He's the author of several books, the most recent of which is called SUDDENLY, A KNOCK ON THE DOOR, now available from Farrar, Straus, & Giroux. Jonathan Safran Foer calls it "Keret’s greatest book yet—the most funny, dark,
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May 9, 2012 · 1 hr 16 min68. David Rees
A conversation with David Rees, author of HOW TO SHARPEN PENCILS
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May 6, 2012 · 1 hr 23 min67. Chloe Caldwell
Chloe Caldwell is the author of the debut essay collection Legs Get Led Astray, now available from Future Tense Books. Caldwell is the author of three books: the essay collection I’ll Tell You in Person (Coffee House/Emily Books, 2016), and the critically acclaimed novella, Women (SF/LD 2014 and Harper Collins UK, 2017). Her memoir, The Red Zone: A Love Story will publish with Soft Skull Press in Spring 2022. Chloe’s personal essays have appeared in The New York Times, Buzzfeed, New York Magazine, Longreads, Vice, Nylon, Salon.com, Medium, Lenny Letter,The Rumpus, Catapult, Hobart, The Sun, Men’s Health, The Nervous Breakdown, and half a dozen anthologies including Goodbye To All That: Writers on Loving and Leaving NYC and Without A Net: The Female Experience of Growing Up Working Class. Her essay “Hungry Ghost” was listed as Notable in 2016 Best American Non Required Reading. She teaches creative nonfiction writing in New York City and online, offers mentorships, and hosts seasonal writing workshops and retreats upstate New York. She lives in Hudson, N.Y. with her husband and stepdaughter. *** 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
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May 2, 2012 · 1 hr 14 min66. Kris D’Agostino
Kris D'Agostino is the author of the debut novel The Sleepy Hollow Family Almanac (Algonquin). He is also the author of the novel The Antiques. *** 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 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
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Apr 29, 2012 · 1 hr 18 min65. Matt Bell
Matt Bell is the author of several chapbooks, a fiction collection called How They Were Found, and his most recent book is a novella called Cataclysm Baby, now available from Mud Luscious Press. Support indie bookstores! Shop here. Bell’s next novel, Appleseed, is forthcoming from Custom House in July 2021. His craft book Refuse to Be Done, a guide to novel writing, rewriting, and revision, will follow in early 2022 from Soho Press. He is also the author of the novels Scrapper and In the House upon the Dirt between the Lake and the Woods, as well as the short story collection A Tree or a Person or a Wall, a non-fiction book about the classic video game Baldur's Gate II, and several other titles. His writing has appeared in The New York Times, Tin House, Conjunctions, Fairy Tale Review, American Short Fiction, and many other publications. A native of Michigan, he teaches creative writing at Arizona State University. *** 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 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
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Apr 25, 2012 · 1 hr 16 minEpisode 64 — Noah Hawley
Noah Hawley is the guest. He's the author of several books, the most recent of which is a novel called THE GOOD FATHER, now available from Doubleday. He's also an accomplished writer and producer in film and television.
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Apr 22, 2012 · 1 hr 13 min63. James Bernard Frost
James Bernard Frost is the guest. He's the author of the novel A Very Minor Prophet, now available from Hawthorne Books. Frost is also the author of the novel World Leader Pretend, and the award-winning travel guide The Artichoke Trail. His fiction and nonfiction has been published in many places, including the San Francisco Examiner, the San Francisco Bay Guardian, and Wired. He lives in Oregon with the author Kerry Cohen, their four children, the rain, the freaks, and the trees. His bike is currently in disrepair. *** 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 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
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Apr 18, 2012 · 1 hr 17 minEpisode 62 — Heidi Julavits
Heidi Julavits is today's guest. She's the author of four books, the most recent of which is a novel called THE VANISHERS, now available from Doubleday. And she's also the co-editor of The Believer magazine.
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Apr 15, 2012 · 1 hr 14 min61. Rosecrans Baldwin
Rosecrans Baldwin is a co-founder of The Morning News and the author of a memoir called Paris, I Love You But You're Bringing Me Down (FSG). Baldwin is also the author of the novel The Last Kid Left. His next book, Everything Now, is forthcoming June 2021 from MCD x FSG (Farrar, Straus and Giroux). As a magazine writer, Baldwin is a frequent contributor to GQ. Other titles include Esquire, Men’s Journal, Travel + Leisure, AFAR, Saveur, and Bon Appétit, with several features selected as notable essays in the Best American Essays and Best American Travel Writing collections (2013, 2015, 2019). Rosecrans has written opinion pieces for the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Wall Street Journal and the Guardian, as well as Buzzfeed, Salon, and Slate. As a columnist, he created “The Digital Ramble” for The New York Times T Magazine and the “Confidential” page for Centurion, a magazine for American Express “Black Card” members. (Rosecrans is not a “Black Card” member.) In 1999, he co-founded the online zine TMN with publisher Andrew Womack, and continues to help oversee the Tournament of Books. Rosecrans also works as half of a screenwriting team with his partner Rachel Knowles. Together, they’ve written scripts and treatments in collaboration with Groundswell Productions, A+E Studios, Patagonia Films, Atlas Entertainment, Film 44, Gran Via Productions, Avalon Television, Assembly Entertainment, and CBS Studios. Rosecrans has also written and produced podcasts with Luminary, Western Sound, Mirum, and m ss ng p eces. From 2012-2014, he was a regular on-air contributor to National Public Radio’s All Things Considered. A MacDowell fellow, Rosecrans has taught fiction writing at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, nonfiction writing at Duke University’s Center for Documentary Studies, and he was an author-in-residence at Miami Dade College’s Miami Writers Institute. He lives in Los Angeles. *** 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
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Apr 11, 2012 · 1 hr 19 minEpisode 60 — Kris Saknussemm
Kris Saknussemm is the guest. His latest novel, REVEREND AMERICA, is now available from Dark Coast Press. From Booklist: "Once upon a time, Mathias Gaspenny was a child preacher and faith healer who captivated audiences across the country. Now,
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Apr 8, 2012 · 1 hr 12 minEpisode 59 — Amelia Gray
Amelia Gray is the guest. She's the author of three works of fiction, the most recent of which is a novel called THREATS, now available from Farrar, Straus, & Giroux. Doug Dorst, author of 'The Surf Guru,
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Apr 4, 2012 · 1 hr 9 minEpisode 58 — Melissa Broder
Melissa Broder is the guest. Her new poetry collection, entitled MEAT HEART, is now available from Publishing Genius Press. Says Publishers Weekly: "Broder’s second collection cranks up the weird by mining the grotesqueries of her speakers’ relatio
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Apr 1, 2012 · 1 hr 12 minEpisode 57 — Hari Kunzru
Hari Kunzru is the guest. He's the author of four books, the most recent of which is a novel called GODS WITHOUT MEN, now available from Knopf. David Mitchell, author of 'Cloud Atlas,' calls it a "beautifully written echo chamber of a novel.
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Mar 28, 2012 · 1 hr 14 minEpisode 56 — Jessica Keener
Jessica Keener is today's guest. Her debut novel, NIGHT SWIM, is now available from Fiction Studio Books. Pulitzer Prize-winner Jennifer Egan says: "Jessica Keener steps boldly into the terrain of Eugene O'Neill,
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Mar 25, 2012 · 1 hr 17 minEpisode 55 — Catherine Chung
Catherine Chung is the guest. Her debut novel, FORGOTTEN COUNTRY, is now available from Riverhead Books. Booklist, in a starred review, raves: "Chung’s superb debut examines the twin hearts of cruelty and compassion between sisters in particular and.
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Mar 21, 2012 · 1 hr 17 minEpisode 54 — Jeff Ragsdale
Jeff Ragsdale is the guest. He's the co-author, along with David Shields and Michael Logan, of JEFF, ONE LONELY GUY. Here's what Bret Easton Ellis, author of AMERICAN PSYCHO, has to say about it: "You can either make fun of JEFF,
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Mar 18, 2012 · 1 hr 13 minEpisode 53 — Sarah Manguso
Sarah Manguso is today's guest. She's the author of the new book THE GUARDIANS: AN ELEGY, now available from Farrar, Straus, & Giroux. Megan O'Grady, writing for Vogue, says: "Shortly after returning home from a fellowship year in Rome,
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Mar 14, 2012 · 1 hr 18 minEpisode 52 — Lysley Tenorio
Lysley Tenorio is the guest. A winner of the Whiting Writer's Award and a former Stegner Fellow at Stanford University, he is the author of a debut story collection called MONSTRESS, now available from Ecco. Raves Chang-Rae Lee,
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Mar 11, 2012 · 1 hr 20 minEpisode 51 — Lauren Groff
Lauren Groff is the guest. She's the author of the novel ARCADIA, now available from Hyperion. It has received starred reviews from Library Journal, Publishers Weekly, Kirkus, and Booklist. And Richard Russo raves: "Richly peopled and ambitious an...