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Otherppl with Brad Listi

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Otherppl with Brad Listi is a weekly literary podcast featuring in-depth conversations with today's leading authors. Books, writing, literature, screenwriting, the creative process, and more. Available wherever you get your podcasts. Watch it on the Otherppl YouTube channel. Follow the show on Twitter and Instagram.

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Episode 596 — R.O. Kwon

September 04, 2019 08:08 - 1 hour

R.O. Kwon is the guest. Her bestselling debut novel, The Incendiaries, is available in trade paperback from Riverhead Books. Named a best book of the year by over forty publications, The Incendiaries was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle John Leonard Award for Best First Book, Los Angeles Times First Book Prize, and Northern California Independent Booksellers Association Fiction Prize. The book was also nominated for the Aspen Prize, Carnegie Medal, and the Northern California ...

595. Chris L. Terry

August 28, 2019 08:08 - 1 hour

Chris L. Terryis the guest. His new novel, Black Card, is available from Catapult Press. This is Terry's second time on the podcast. He first appeared in Episode 217 on October 16, 2013. Terry was born in 1979 to an African American father and an Irish American mother. He has an BA in English from Virginia Commonwealth University and a creative writing MFA from Columbia College Chicago. His debut novel, Zero Fade, was named a Best Book of the Year by Slate and Kirkus Reviews. He lives in Los ...

Episode 595 — Chris L. Terry

August 28, 2019 08:08 - 1 hour

Chris L. Terryis the guest. His new novel, Black Card, is available from Catapult Press. This is Terry's second time on the podcast. He first appeared in Episode 217 on October 16, 2013. Terry was born in 1979 to an African American father and an Irish American mother. He has an BA in English from Virginia Commonwealth University and a creative writing MFA from Columbia College Chicago. His debut novel, Zero Fade, was named a Best Book of the Year by Slate and Kirkus Reviews. He lives in Los ...

594. Shane Jones

August 21, 2019 08:08 - 1 hour

Shane Jones is the guest. His latest novel, Vincent and Alice and Alice, is available from Tyrant Books. It is the official August pick of The Nervous Breakdown Book Club. This is Shane's second time on the program. He first appeared in Episode 301 on August 6, 2014. Jones' other books include the novels Light Boxes, Daniel Fights a Hurricane, and Crystal Eaters. He lives in Albany, New York. In today's monologue, I talk briefly about the guy at the cafe who had a problem with my dog.  Learn ...

Episode 594 — Shane Jones

August 21, 2019 08:08 - 1 hour

Shane Jones is the guest. His latest novel, Vincent and Alice and Alice, is available from Tyrant Books. It is the official August pick of The Nervous Breakdown Book Club. This is Shane's second time on the program. He first appeared in Episode 301 on August 6, 2014. Jones' other books include the novels Light Boxes, Daniel Fights a Hurricane, and Crystal Eaters. He lives in Albany, New York. In today's monologue, I talk briefly about the guy at the cafe who had a problem with my dog.  Learn...

593. Juliet Escoria

August 14, 2019 08:08 - 1 hour

Juliet Escoria is the guest. Her debut novel, Juliet the Maniac, is available from Melville House. It was the official May pick of The Nervous Breakdown Book Club. This is Juliet's second time on the program. She first appeared in Episode 273 on April 30, 2014. She also wrote the short story collection Black Cloud, which was originally published in 2014 by Civil Coping Mechanisms. In 2015, Emily Books published the ebook, Maro Verlag published a German translation, and Los Libros de la Mujer ...

Episode 593 — Juliet Escoria

August 14, 2019 08:08 - 1 hour

Juliet Escoriais the guest. Her debut novel, Juliet the Maniac, is available from Melville House. It was the official May pick of The Nervous Breakdown Book Club. This is Juliet's second time on the program. She first appeared in Episode 273 on April 30, 2014. She also wrote the short story collection Black Cloud, which was originally published in 2014 by Civil Coping Mechanisms. In 2015, Emily Books published the ebook, Maro Verlag published a German translation, and Los Libros de la Mujer ...

592. Sarah Rose Etter

August 07, 2019 08:08 - 1 hour

Sarah Rose Etter is the guest. Her debut novel, The Book of X, is available from Two Dollar Radio. She is also the author of the chapbook Tongue Party, selected by Deb Olin Unferth as the winner of the Caketrain Press award. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in The Cut, Electric Literature, Guernica, VICE, New York Tyrant, Juked, Night Block, The Black Warrior Review, Salt Hill Journal, The Collagist, and more. She is the co-founder of the TireFire Reading Series, and a contributing edi...

Episode 592 — Sarah Rose Etter

August 07, 2019 08:08 - 1 hour

Sarah Rose Etter is the guest. Her debut novel, The Book of X, is available from Two Dollar Radio. She is also the author of the chapbookTongue Party, selected by Deb Olin Unferth as the winner of the Caketrain Press award. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in The Cut, Electric Literature, Guernica, VICE, New York Tyrant, Juked, Night Block, The Black Warrior Review, Salt Hill Journal, The Collagist, and more. She is the co-founder of the TireFire Reading Series, and a contributing ed...

591. J. Ryan Stradal

July 31, 2019 08:08 - 1 hour

J. Ryan Stradal is the guest. His new novel, The Lager Queen of Minnesota, is available from Viking / Pamela Dorman Books. This is Stradal's second time on the podcast. He first appeared in Episode 376on August 19, 2015. His first novel, Kitchens of the Great Midwest, reached the New York Times Hardcover Best Seller list at #19 on its third week of release. His shorter writing has appeared in Hobart, The Rumpus, The Wall Street Journal, Granta, The Guardian, Electric Literature, The Nervous B...

Episode 591 — J. Ryan Stradal

July 31, 2019 08:08 - 1 hour

J. Ryan Stradal is the guest. His new novel, The Lager Queen of Minnesota, is available from Viking / Pamela Dorman Books. This is Stradal's second time on the podcast. He first appeared in Episode 376on August 19, 2015. His first novel, Kitchens of the Great Midwest, reached the New York Times Hardcover Best Seller list at #19 on its third week of release. His shorter writing has appeared in Hobart, The Rumpus, The Wall Street Journal, Granta, The Guardian, Electric Literature, The Nervous B...

590. Chip Cheek

July 24, 2019 08:08 - 1 hour

Chip Cheek is the guest. His debut novel, Cape May, is available from Celadon Books. Cheek's stories have appeared in The Southern Review, Harvard Review, Washington Square, and other journals and anthologies. He has been awarded scholarships to the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, the Tin House Summer Writer's Workshop, and the Vermont Studio Center, as well as an Emerging Artist Award from the St. Botolph Club Foundation in Boston. For many years, Chip taught fiction at GrubStreet in Boston....

Episode 590 — Chip Cheek

July 24, 2019 08:08 - 1 hour

Chip Cheek is the guest. His debut novel, Cape May, is available from Celadon Books. Cheek's stories have appeared in The Southern Review, Harvard Review, Washington Square, and other journals and anthologies. He has been awarded scholarships to the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, the Tin House Summer Writer's Workshop, and the Vermont Studio Center, as well as an Emerging Artist Award from the St. Botolph Club Foundation in Boston. For many years, Chip taught fiction at GrubStreet in Boston....

589. Steve Almond

July 17, 2019 08:08 - 1 hour

Steve Almondis the guest. His new book, William Stoner and the Battle for the Inner Life, is available from Ig Publishing. This is Steve's fourth time on the program. He first appeared in Episode 9, on October 16, 2011, and again in Episode 302, on August 10, 2014, and Episode 513, on April 8, 2018. Almond is the author of ten books of fiction and nonfiction, including the New York Times bestsellers Candyfreak and Against Football. You can check those out here.Last year, he published Bad Stor...

Episode 589 — Steve Almond

July 17, 2019 08:08 - 1 hour

Steve Almondis the guest. His new book, William Stoner and the Battle for the Inner Life, is available from Ig Publishing. This is Steve's fourth time on the program. He first appeared in Episode 9, on October 16, 2011, and again in Episode 302, on August 10, 2014, and Episode 513, on April 8, 2018. Almond is the author of ten books of fiction and nonfiction, including the New York Times bestsellers Candyfreak and Against Football. You can check those out here.Last year, he published Bad Sto...

Episode 588 — Erin Hosier

July 10, 2019 08:08 - 1 hour

Erin Hosieris the guest. Her new memoir, Don't Let Me Down, is available from Atria Books. Hosier is also the coauthor of Hit So Hard by Patty Schemel (Da Capo, 2017). She has been a literary agent since 2001 (currently with Dunow Carlson & Lerner), and was an original co-host of the Literary Death Match. As an agent, she primarily works with authors of nonfiction and has a special interest in popular culture, music biography, humor, women's history (and untold stories of all kinds). She live...

588. Erin Hosier

July 10, 2019 08:08 - 1 hour

Erin Hosieris the guest. Her new memoir, Don't Let Me Down, is available from Atria Books. Hosier is also the coauthor of Hit So Hard by Patty Schemel (Da Capo, 2017). She has been a literary agent since 2001 (currently with Dunow Carlson & Lerner), and was an original co-host of the Literary Death Match. As an agent, she primarily works with authors of nonfiction and has a special interest in popular culture, music biography, humor, women's history (and untold stories of all kinds). She live...

Episode 587 — Bret Easton Ellis

July 03, 2019 08:08 - 1 hour

Bret Easton Ellis is the guest. His new essay collection, White, is available from Knopf. Ellis is the author of six novels, including Less Than Zero, The Rules of Attraction, and American Psycho, and a collection of stories, which have been translated into thirty-two languages. He lives in Los Angeles and is the host of The Bret Easton Ellis Podcast, available on Patreon. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

587. Bret Easton Ellis

July 03, 2019 08:08 - 1 hour

Bret Easton Ellis is the guest. His new essay collection, White, is available from Knopf. Ellis is the author of six novels, including Less Than Zero, The Rules of Attraction, and American Psycho, and a collection of stories, which have been translated into thirty-two languages. He lives in Los Angeles and is the host of The Bret Easton Ellis Podcast, available on Patreon. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Episode 586 — Karen Stefano

June 26, 2019 08:08 - 1 hour

Karen Stefanois the guest. Her new book, What a Body Remembers: A Memoir of Sexual Assault and Its Aftermath, is available from Rare Bird Books. It is the official June pick of The Nervous Breakdown Book Club. Stefano's other books include the short story collection The Secret Games of Words (1GlimpsePress 2015) and the how-to business writing guide, Before Hitting Send (Dearborn 2011). Her work has appeared in Ms. Magazine, The Rumpus, Psychology Today, California Lawyer, The South Carolina...

586. Karen Stefano

June 26, 2019 08:08 - 1 hour

Karen Stefano is the guest. Her new book, What a Body Remembers: A Memoir of Sexual Assault and Its Aftermath, is available from Rare Bird Books. It is the official June pick of The Nervous Breakdown Book Club. Stefano's other books include the short story collection The Secret Games of Words (1GlimpsePress 2015) and the how-to business writing guide, Before Hitting Send (Dearborn 2011). Her work has appeared in Ms. Magazine, The Rumpus, Psychology Today, California Lawyer, The South Carolina...

Episode 585 — Elvia Wilk

June 19, 2019 08:08 - 1 hour

Elvia Wilkis the guest. Her debut novel, Oval, is available from Soft Skull Press. Wilk is a writer and editor living in New York and Berlin. She contributes to publications like Frieze, Mousse, Metropolis, Artforum, and Zeit Online. From 2012 to 2016 she was a founding editor at uncube magazine and from 2016 to 2018 she was the publications editor for transmediale. She is currently a contributing editor at e-flux journal and is finishing a masters at the New School for Social Research. She h...

585. Elvia Wilk

June 19, 2019 08:08 - 1 hour

Elvia Wilk is the guest. Her debut novel, Oval, is available from Soft Skull Press. Wilk is a writer and editor living in New York and Berlin. She contributes to publications like Frieze, Mousse, Metropolis, Artforum, and Zeit Online. From 2012 to 2016 she was a founding editor at uncube magazine and from 2016 to 2018 she was the publications editor for transmediale. She is currently a contributing editor at e-flux journal and is finishing a masters at the New School for Social Research. She ...

Episode 584 — Kathryn Scanlan

June 12, 2019 08:08 - 1 hour

Kathryn Scanlanis the guest. Her new book, Aug 9 — Fog, is available from MCD Books. Scanlan lives in Los Angeles. Her stories have appeared in NOON, Fence, American Short Fiction, Tin House, Caketrain, and The Iowa Review, among other publications. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

584. Kathryn Scanlan

June 12, 2019 08:08 - 1 hour

Kathryn Scanlan is the guest. Her new book, Aug 9 — Fog, is available from MCD Books. Scanlan lives in Los Angeles. Her stories have appeared in NOON, Fence, American Short Fiction, Tin House, Caketrain, and The Iowa Review, among other publications. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Episode 583 — Jennifer Pastiloff

June 05, 2019 08:08 - 1 hour

Jennifer Pastiloffis the guest. Her new book, On Being Human: A Memoir of Waking Up, Living Real, and Listening Hard, is available from Dutton. Pastiloff travels the world with her unique workshop On Being Human, a hybrid of yoga-related movement, writing, sharing aloud, letting the snot fly, and the occasional dance party. She has been featured on Good Morning America, New York Magazine, Health Magazine, CBS News, and others for her unique style of teaching, which she has taught to thousand...

583. Jennifer Pastiloff

June 05, 2019 08:08 - 1 hour

Jennifer Pastiloff is the guest. Her new book, On Being Human: A Memoir of Waking Up, Living Real, and Listening Hard, is available from Dutton. Pastiloff travels the world with her unique workshop On Being Human, a hybrid of yoga-related movement, writing, sharing aloud, letting the snot fly, and the occasional dance party. She has been featured on Good Morning America, New York Magazine, Health Magazine, CBS News, and others for her unique style of teaching, which she has taught to thousand...

Episode 582 — Elisa Gabbert

May 29, 2019 08:08 - 1 hour

Elisa Gabbertis the guest. Her new essay collection, The Word Pretty, is available from Black Ocean Press. This is Elisa's second time on the podcast. She first appeared in Episode 241 on January 8, 2014. Gabbert is a poet and essayist whose other books include L’Heure Bleue, or the Judy Poems (Black Ocean, 2016), The Self Unstable (Black Ocean, 2013), and The French Exit (Birds LLC, 2010). The Word Pretty was a New York Times Editors’ Pick, and The Self Unstable was chosen by the New Yorker ...

582. Elisa Gabbert

May 29, 2019 08:08 - 1 hour

Elisa Gabbert is the guest. Her new essay collection, The Word Pretty, is available from Black Ocean Press. This is Elisa's second time on the podcast. She first appeared in Episode 241 on January 8, 2014. Gabbert is a poet and essayist whose other books include L’Heure Bleue, or the Judy Poems (Black Ocean, 2016), The Self Unstable (Black Ocean, 2013), and The French Exit (Birds LLC, 2010). The Word Pretty was a New York Times Editors’ Pick, and The Self Unstable was chosen by the New Yorker...

Episode 581 — Saskia Vogel

May 22, 2019 08:08 - 1 hour

Saskia Vogelis the guest. Her debut novel, Permission, is available from Coach House Books. Vogel was born and raised in Los Angeles and now lives in its sister city, Berlin, where she works as a writer and Swedish-to-English literary translator. Previously she worked as Granta magazine’s global publicist and as an editor at the AVN Media Network, where she reported on pornography and adult pleasure products. She volunteers her time as the honorary secretary of SELTA and as part of the team ...

581. Saskia Vogel

May 22, 2019 08:08 - 1 hour

Saskia Vogel is the guest. Her debut novel, Permission, is available from Coach House Books. Vogel was born and raised in Los Angeles and now lives in its sister city, Berlin, where she works as a writer and Swedish-to-English literary translator. Previously she worked as Granta magazine’s global publicist and as an editor at the AVN Media Network, where she reported on pornography and adult pleasure products. She volunteers her time as the honorary secretary of SELTA and as part of the team ...

Episode 580 — Lydia Fitzpatrick

May 15, 2019 08:08 - 1 hour

Lydia Fitzpatrick is the guest. Her debut novel, Lights All Night Long, is available from Penguin Press. Fitzpatrick’s work has appeared in the The O. Henry Prize Stories, The Best American Mystery Stories, One Story, Glimmer Train,and elsewhere. She was a Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford University, a fiction fellow at the Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing, and a recipient of an Elizabeth George Foundation grant. She graduated from Princeton University and received an MFA from the ...

580. Lydia Fitzpatrick

May 15, 2019 08:08 - 1 hour

Lydia Fitzpatrick is the guest. Her debut novel, Lights All Night Long, is available from Penguin Press. Fitzpatrick’s work has appeared in the The O. Henry Prize Stories, The Best American Mystery Stories, One Story, Glimmer Train,and elsewhere. She was a Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford University, a fiction fellow at the Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing, and a recipient of an Elizabeth George Foundation grant. She graduated from Princeton University and received an MFA from the U...

Episode 579 — Lilliam Rivera

May 08, 2019 08:08 - 1 hour

Lilliam Rivera is the guest. Her new YA novel, Dealing in Dreams, is available from Simon & Schuster. Rivera's previous novel, The Education of Margot Sanchez (February 2017) was nominated for a 2019 Rhode Island Teen Book Award, a 2017 Best Fiction for Young Adult Fiction by the Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA), and has been featured on NPR, New York Times Book Review, New York magazine, MTV.com, and Teen Vogue, among others. She is a 2016 Pushcart Prize winner and a 2015 Cl...

579. Lilliam Rivera

May 08, 2019 08:08 - 1 hour

Lilliam Rivera is the guest. Her new YA novel, Dealing in Dreams, is available from Simon & Schuster. Rivera's previous novel, The Education of Margot Sanchez (February 2017) was nominated for a 2019 Rhode Island Teen Book Award, a 2017 Best Fiction for Young Adult Fiction by the Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA), and has been featured on NPR, New York Times Book Review, New York magazine, MTV.com, and Teen Vogue, among others. She is a 2016 Pushcart Prize winner and a 2015 Cla...

Episode 578 — Balli Kaur Jaswal

May 01, 2019 08:08 - 1 hour

Balli Kaur Jaswal is the guest. Her new novel, The Unlikely Adventures of the Shergill Sisters, is available from William Morrow. It is the official April 2019 pick of The Nervous Breakdown Book Club. Jaswal is the author of Inheritance, which won the Sydney Morning Herald’s Best Young Australian Novelist Award in 2014 and was adapted into a film at the Singapore International Festival of the Arts in 2017. Her second novel Sugarbreadwas a finalist for the 2015 inaugural Epigram Books Fiction ...

578. Balli Kaur Jaswal

May 01, 2019 08:08 - 1 hour

Balli Kaur Jaswal is the guest. Her new novel, The Unlikely Adventures of the Shergill Sisters, is available from William Morrow. It is the official April 2019 pick of The Nervous Breakdown Book Club. Jaswal is the author of Inheritance, which won the Sydney Morning Herald’s Best Young Australian Novelist Award in 2014 and was adapted into a film at the Singapore International Festival of the Arts in 2017. Her second novel Sugarbreadwas a finalist for the 2015 inaugural Epigram Books Fiction ...

Episode 577 — David Shields

April 24, 2019 08:08 - 1 hour

David Shieldsis the guest. His two most recent books are The Trouble with Men: Reflections on Sex, Love, Marriage, Porn, and Power (Mad Creek Books) and Nobody Hates Trump More than Trump: An Intervention (Thought Catalog Books). Shields is the internationally bestselling author of twenty-two books, including Reality Hunger (named one of the best books of 2010 by more than thirty publications), The Thing About Life Is That One Day You’ll Be Dead (New York Times bestseller), Black Planet (fin...

577. David Shields

April 24, 2019 08:08 - 1 hour

David Shields is the guest. His two most recent books are The Trouble with Men: Reflections on Sex, Love, Marriage, Porn, and Power (Mad Creek Books) and Nobody Hates Trump More than Trump: An Intervention (Thought Catalog Books). Shields is the internationally bestselling author of twenty-two books, including Reality Hunger (named one of the best books of 2010 by more than thirty publications), The Thing About Life Is That One Day You’ll Be Dead (New York Times bestseller), Black Planet (fin...

Episode 576 — T Kira Madden

April 17, 2019 08:08 - 1 hour

T Kira Madden is the guest. Her new memoir, Long Live the Tribe of Fatherless Girls, is available from Bloomsbury. It was the official March pick of The Nervous Breakdown Book Club. T Kira Madden is a lesbian APIA writer, photographer, and amateur magician living in New York City. She holds an MFA in creative writing from Sarah Lawrence College and an BA in design and literature from Parsons School of Design and Eugene Lang College. She is the founding Editor-in-chief of No Tokens, a magazine...

576. T Kira Madden

April 17, 2019 08:08 - 1 hour

T Kira Madden is the guest. Her new memoir, Long Live the Tribe of Fatherless Girls, is available from Bloomsbury. It was the official March pick of The Nervous Breakdown Book Club. T Kira Madden is a lesbian APIA writer, photographer, and amateur magician living in New York City. She holds an MFA in creative writing from Sarah Lawrence College and an BA in design and literature from Parsons School of Design and Eugene Lang College. She is the founding Editor-in-chief of No Tokens, a magazine...

Episode 575 — Lori Gottlieb

April 10, 2019 08:08 - 1 hour

Lori Gottliebis the guest. Her new memoir, Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: A Therapist, Her Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed, is available from Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. Gottlieb is a psychotherapist and New York Times bestselling author who writes the weekly “Dear Therapist” advice column for The Atlantic. She has written hundreds of articles related to psychology and culture, many of which have become viral sensations all over the world. A contributing editor for the Atlantic, she also...

575. Lori Gottlieb

April 10, 2019 08:08 - 1 hour

Lori Gottlieb is the guest. Her new memoir, Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: A Therapist, Her Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed, is available from Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. Gottlieb is a psychotherapist and New York Times bestselling author who writes the weekly “Dear Therapist” advice column for The Atlantic. She has written hundreds of articles related to psychology and culture, many of which have become viral sensations all over the world. A contributing editor for the Atlantic, she also...

Episode 574 — Richard Chiem

April 03, 2019 08:08 - 1 hour

Richard Chiem is the guest. His new novel, King of Joy, is available from Soft Skull Press. This is Richard's second time on the podcast. He first appeared in Episode 142on January 23, 2013. Chiem is also the author of You Private Person (Sorry House Classics). It was named one of Publishers Weekly's 10 Essential Books of the American West. His work has appeared in City Arts Magazine, NY Tyrant, and Gramma Poetry, among other places.  He lives in Seattle, WA.  Learn more about your ad choices...

574. Richard Chiem

April 03, 2019 08:08 - 1 hour

Richard Chiem is the guest. His new novel, King of Joy, is available from Soft Skull Press. This is Richard's second time on the podcast. He first appeared in Episode 142on January 23, 2013. Chiem is also the author of You Private Person (Sorry House Classics). It was named one of Publishers Weekly's 10 Essential Books of the American West. His work has appeared in City Arts Magazine, NY Tyrant, and Gramma Poetry, among other places. He lives in Seattle, WA.  Learn more about your ad choices....

Episode 573 — Chloe Aridjis

March 31, 2019 08:08 - 1 hour

Chloe Aridjis is the guest. Her new novel, Sea Monsters, is available from Catapult Press. Aridjis is a Mexican-American writer who was born in New York and grew up in the Netherlands and Mexico. After completing her Ph.D. at the University of Oxford in nineteenth-century French poetry and magic shows, she lived for nearly six years in Berlin. Her debut novel, Book of Clouds, has been published in eight languages and won the Prix du Premier Roman Étranger in France. Aridjis sometimes writes a...

573. Chloe Aridjis

March 31, 2019 08:08 - 1 hour

Chloe Aridjis is the guest. Her new novel, Sea Monsters, is available from Catapult Press. Aridjis is a Mexican-American writer who was born in New York and grew up in the Netherlands and Mexico. After completing her Ph.D. at the University of Oxford in nineteenth-century French poetry and magic shows, she lived for nearly six years in Berlin. Her debut novel, Book of Clouds, has been published in eight languages and won the Prix du Premier Roman Étranger in France. Aridjis sometimes writes a...

Episode 572 — Eva Hagberg Fisher

March 27, 2019 08:08 - 1 hour

Eva Hagberg Fisher is the guest. Her new book, How to Be Loved: A Memoir of Life-Saving Friendship, is available from Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. Eva's writing has appeared in the New York Times, Tin House, Wallpaper*, Wired, and Dwell, among other places. She holds degrees in architecture from UC Berkeley and Princeton as well as a PhD in Visual and Narrative Culture from UC Berkeley.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

572. Eva Hagberg Fisher

March 27, 2019 08:08 - 1 hour

Eva Hagberg Fisher is the guest. Her new book, How to Be Loved: A Memoir of Life-Saving Friendship, is available from Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. Eva's writing has appeared in the New York Times, Tin House, Wallpaper*, Wired, and Dwell, among other places. She holds degrees in architecture from UC Berkeley and Princeton as well as a PhD in Visual and Narrative Culture from UC Berkeley.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Episode 571 — Roger McNamee

March 20, 2019 08:08 - 1 hour

Roger McNamee is the guest. His new book Zucked: Waking Up to the Facebook Catastrophe, is a New York Times bestseller, available from Penguin Press. McNamee has been a Silicon Valley investor for 35 years. He co-founded successful funds in venture, crossover and private equity. His most recent fund, Elevation, included U2’s Bono as a co-founder. He holds a B.A. from Yale University and an M.B.A. from the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College. Roger plays bass and guitar in the bands M...

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Lidia Yuknavitch
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George Saunders
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Heidi Julavits
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Laura van den Berg
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Ned Vizzini
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Roxane Gay
2 Episodes
Adam Mansbach
1 Episode
Aimee Bender
1 Episode
Allen Carr
1 Episode
Andre Dubus
1 Episode
Andre Dubus III
1 Episode
Barry Eisler
1 Episode
Ben Marcus
1 Episode
Bret Easton Ellis
1 Episode
Chip Cheek
1 Episode
Chuck Klosterman
1 Episode
Colum McCann
1 Episode
Curtis Sittenfeld
1 Episode
Daniel Handler
1 Episode
Doug Dorst
1 Episode
Douglas Coupland
1 Episode
D.T. Max
1 Episode
Edwidge Danticat
1 Episode
Erik Larson
1 Episode
Hari Kunzru
1 Episode
Jess Walter
1 Episode
Jonathan Ames
1 Episode
Jonathan Franzen
1 Episode
Jonathan Lethem
1 Episode
Joyce Johnson
1 Episode
Kathleen Rooney
1 Episode
Lori Gottlieb
1 Episode
Lynne Tillman
1 Episode
Mary Miller
1 Episode
Michelle Tea
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Monica Drake
1 Episode
Rex Pickett
1 Episode
Roger McNamee
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Ron Rash
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Ruth Ozeki
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Stephen Elliott
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Stewart O'Nan
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Stuart Dybek
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Tim Johnston
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Tim O'Brien
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Tom Perrotta
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