Otherppl with Brad Listi
1,265 episodes - English - Latest episode: 15 days ago - ★★★★★ - 477 ratingsOtherppl 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 144 — Andrea Seigel
January 30, 2013 09:08 - 1 hourAndrea 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 Goth kid whose favorite book was Prozac Nation, she probably would have ended up writing exactly like Andrea Seigel.” And Bret Easton Ellis says "Andrea Seigel’s confidence— her intelligence and verve— lets her take risks that sweep the reader...
Episode 143 — Teddy Wayne
January 27, 2013 09:08 - 1 hourTeddy 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 Literary Peace Prize. His second novel, The Love Song of Jonny Valentine, is due out from Free Press on February 5, 2013. Publishers Weekly, in a starred review, calls it "Masterfully executed...the real accomplishment is the unforgettable voice of...
Episode 142 — Richard Chiem
January 23, 2013 09:08 - 1 hourRichard 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 somewhere off of the paper. His words have brains that have bodies that wake you up in the way waking can be the best thing, like into a warm room full of good calm remembered things that feel both like relics and new inside the day. Here rings a...
Episode 141 — Kate Zambreno
January 20, 2013 09:08 - 2 hoursKate 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 her provocative new work, Heroines, published by Semiotext(e)'s Active Agents imprint... challenges easy categorization, this time by poetically swerving in and out of memoir, diary, fiction, literary history, criticism, and theory. With equal parts unab...
Episode 140 — Rosie Schaap
January 16, 2013 09:08 - 1 hourRosie 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 Christensen raves "This book will be a classic. There is so much joy in this book! It’s a great, comforting, wonderful, funny, inspiring, moving memoir about community and belief and the immense redemptive powers of alcohol drunk properly." An...
Episode 139 — xTx
January 13, 2013 09:08 - 1 hourxTx 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 god. Billie the Bull is mind-bogglingly and intricately superb down to its tiniest punctuation marks. To me, she’s about as great as it can get. Seriously, I’m awestruck." Monologue topics: my unit, my thing, this podcast, hybridized forms, navel-gazin...
Episode 138 — Panio Gianopoulos
January 09, 2013 09:08 - 1 hourPanio 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 follows the gut-tightening travails of a man hollowed by his own infidelities. With elegant prose, unforgettable scenes and Philip Roth-like psychological insights, Panio Gianopoulos’s debut novella marks the arrival of a bright and gifted writer.” And Adam La...
Episode 137 — Eli Horowitz
January 06, 2013 09:08 - 1 hourEli 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 project is called The Silent History, a serialized novel designed for the iPad and iPhone. Wired magazine calls it "Entirely revolutionary." The New York Times calls it "One of the most talked-about new experiments [in publishing]." And The Los Angele...
Episode 136 — Christine Schutt
January 02, 2013 09:08 - 1 hourChristine 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, Prosperous Friends, is now available from Grove Press. Sam Lipsyte raves "Prosperous Friends is masterful, a comic-tragic astonishment. Christine Schutt continues to write some of the most original and rewarding prose I've ever read." And Gary Lutz says “I...
Episode 135 — Brian Allen Carr
December 30, 2012 09:08 - 1 hourBrian 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 regional with gothic, recalling Flannery O'Connor, who wrote out of Georgia. But Carr's intricate narrative patterns, jump cuts and unanticipated segueshave a distinctly postmodern feel. Any way you cut it, Brian Allen Carr is a potently eccentric ...
Episode 134 — Robert Kloss
December 26, 2012 09:08 - 1 hourRobert 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 narrative that reports on things from a great height and in an ultra-factual way. Familiar events of war, sorrow and struggle are seen anew, as if on a slide under a microscope.” And Adam Braver says “In The Alligators of Abraham, Robert Kloss drops ...
Episode 133 — Mira Gonzalez
December 23, 2012 09:08 - 1 hourMira 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 weird space between bodies stuffed with Ambien and food and light from porn on laptops in an anxious, calming kind of way, one concerned more with what blood tastes like than how the blood got out. It’s messed up and feels honest, open, like lying naked on ...
Episode 132 — Diana Wagman
December 19, 2012 09:08 - 1 hourDiana 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 TNB Book Club. Publishers Weekly raves “Wagman’s talent for imagery is well served by the subject matter, and the story is perfectly paced, with humorous breaks in the tension. A PEN Center USA Award winner (for Spontaneous), Wagman has crafted an unu...
Episode 131 — Ned Vizzini
December 16, 2012 09:08 - 1 hourNed 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 The New York Times, The Daily Beast, and Salon. He is the co-author, with Chris Columbus, of the fantasy-adventure series House of Secrets, due out in April 2013. And his latest novel, The Other Normals, is now availalbe from Balzer & Bray. Lev ...
Episode 130 — Zena el Khalil
December 12, 2012 09:08 - 1 hourZena 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 to speak at the Nobel Peace Center in Oslo, and earlier this year she was named a TED fellow. Her memoir, Beirut, I Love You, is now available in the United States in e-book format from NYRB Lit. Gwyneth Paltrow raves "Zena El Khalil brings the city and i...
Episode 129 — Salvatore Pane
December 09, 2012 09:08 - 1 hourSalvatore 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 po-mo Facebook generation, Michael Bishop, the manic narrator of Last Call in the City of Bridges, has reached the end of his irresponsible youth. Stuck and unsure, he looks back at those eight-bit Nintendo years with tender nostalgia while trying to feel ...
Episode 128 — Lydia Millet
December 05, 2012 09:08 - 1 hourLydia 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 available in hardcover from W.W. Norton and Company. Jonathan Lethem raves “[Magnificence is] elegant, darkly comic. . . with overtones variously of Muriel Spark, Edward Gorey and JG Ballard, full of contemporary wit and devilish fateful turns for her ch...
Episode 127 — Eric Raymond
December 02, 2012 09:08 - 1 hourEric 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 post-smart, or post-funny. It's a rollicking and inventive corporate (and cultural) satire—get in now at the ground floor, people." And Blake Butler says "In a world where cash has become language, Eric Raymond's Confessions from a Dark Wood wastes no...
Episode 126 — Erika Rae
November 28, 2012 09:08 - 1 hourErika 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 cackle with heathen-like delight throughout Devangelical.” And Frank Schaeffer, author of Crazy for God, says "Devangelical strikes a darkly funny blow at the central nervous system of evangelical Christianity delivered by a former insider.” Monologue topi...
Episode 125 — Michael Kardos
November 25, 2012 09:08 - 1 hourMichael 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 what he might have in mind for his second book. The plot is original, if distinctly bizarre: three friends who met at Princeton have left their wives at home and are headed for a golf club to celebrate their annual reunion when one of them — the self-...
Episode 124 — Karen Engelmann
November 21, 2012 09:08 - 1 hourKaren 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 female conspirators...Engelmann has crafted a magnificent, suspenseful story set against the vibrant society of Sweden’s zenith, with a cast of colorful characters balanced at a crux of history.” And Library Journal, in a starred review, calls it “Fantastic ....
Episode 123 — Sam Pink
November 18, 2012 09:08 - 1 hourSam 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 danger to society. The voice here in Rontel, as it was in Pink’s previous novel Person, is invasive. It will burrow its way deep into your brain and then echo through your gray matter. You will find yourself thinking the way his narrators think, and will then wonde...
Episode 122 — T.C. Boyle
November 14, 2012 09:08 - 1 hourT.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 Viking. Publishers Weekly raves "Boyle’s epic saga of struggle, loss, and resilience tackles Pacific pioneer history with literary verve…[he] subtly interweaves the fates of Native Americans, Irish immigrants, Spanish and Italian migrant workers, and Chinese fisherm...
Episode 121 — Lisa Carver
November 11, 2012 09:08 - 1 hourLisa 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 Currency, raves "Lisa Carver can reveal surprising depths in Duran Duran lyrics, so imagine what she can do with a subject as rich as Yoko Ono. This book is a searching, brave, weird, great, historically broad, and highly personal interpretation of one of the mo...
Episode 120 — Michael Kimball
November 07, 2012 09:08 - 1 hourMichael 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 gasping for air... Danny's emotions unfold as slowly as the carefully dispensed facts of the story, and to mesmerizing effect... Big Ray is an appalling tale told with anger, dark humor and surprising tenderness." And Sam Lipsyte raves "Michael Kimball has be...
Episode 119 — Julie Klam
November 04, 2012 08:08 - 1 hourJulie 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 flat-out hilarious… [she] never fails to come up with terrific comic vignettes and sharp one-liners… highly entertaining." And the late-great David Rakoff says "Julie Klam is one funny writer.” Monologue topics: salvaging the novel, creative breakt...
Episode 118 — J. Robert Lennon
October 31, 2012 08:08 - 1 hourJ. 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 imagination has grown increasingly morbid, convoluted and peculiar—just as his books have grown commensurately more surprising, rigorous and fun.” And The Los Angeles Times says "[Lennon} keeps Familiar balanced at a perfect pitch...a literary puzzle, a marvelous t...
Episode 117 — Susan Straight
October 28, 2012 08:08 - 1 hourSusan 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 rarest of novels that cry for a sequel, the most unusual of stories that at once satisfies and leaves the reader aching for more. Susan Straight's remarkable Take One Candle Light A Room is such a novel. And she has satisfied our desires in Between Heaven and Here...
Episode 116 — Antoine Wilson
October 24, 2012 08:08 - 1 hourAntoine 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 (after Interloper) is fresh and flawlessly crafted as well as charmingly genuine. Oppen Porter is almost 30, a guileless man who lives in a small central California town with his reclusive father in a house overtaken by nature….Oppen experiments with various roles—d...
Episode 115 - Jami Attenberg
October 21, 2012 08:08 - 1 hourJami 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 appreciated the range of Attenberg's sympathy and the artistry of her storytelling." Kate Christensen says "The Middlesteins is a truly original American novel, at once topical and universally timeless. Jami Attenberg has created a Midwestern Jewish family wh...
Episode 114 — Sean Beaudoin
October 17, 2012 08:08 - 1 hourSean 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 unpredictable adventure, as Beaudoin simultaneously skewers the fast food industry and familiar zombie tropes." Monologue topics: ayahuasca, psycho-spiritual breakthroughs, frustration, the Mayan Apocalypse, confronting a mountain lion on a sand dun...
Episode 113 — Paula Bomer
October 14, 2012 08:08 - 1 hourPaula 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 lovers will be horrified, but Bomer’s debut novel will resonate with fans of quirky, character-driven fiction in the vein of Richard Russo, John Updike, and Tiffany Baker. And Marcy Dermansky calls it Deliciously, dangerously rogue. Monologue to...
Episode 112 — Lorin Stein
October 10, 2012 05:08 - 1 hourLorin 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 Originals. From the Editors' Note: Some chose classics. Some chose stories that were new even to us. Our hope is that this collection will be useful to young writers, and to others interested in literary technique. Most of all, it is intended for readers who ar...
Episode 111 — Kathleen Alcott
October 07, 2012 04:08 - 1 hourKathleen 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 divides us, unites us, and ... Continue reading → Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Episode 110 — Steven Gillis
October 03, 2012 04:08 - 1 hourSteven 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 ... Continue reading → Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
110. Steven Gillis
October 03, 2012 04:08 - 1 hourSteven Gillis is 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. Support independent bookstores! Shop here. Also by Steven Gillis: Liars: A Novel Gillis is the author of six novels and two short story collections. A founding member of the Ann Arbor Book Festival Board of Directors, and a finalist for the 2007 Ann Arbor News Citizen of the Year, Steve taught writing at Eastern Michigan Unive...
Episode 109 — Benjamin Wood
September 30, 2012 04:08 - 1 hourBenjamin 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. Joanna ... Continue reading → Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Episode 108 — Amber Sparks
September 26, 2012 04:08 - 1 hourAmber 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, Angela Carter-and now there is Amber Sparks with a ... Continue reading → Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Episode 107 — D.T. Max
September 23, 2012 04:08 - 1 hourD.T. Max is the guest. He's a staff writer at The New Yorker magazine and the author of Every Love Story is a Ghost Story: A Life of David Foster Wallace, now available from Viking. The San Francisco Chronicle calls ... Continue reading → Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Episode 106 — Thad Ziolkowski
September 19, 2012 04:08 - 1 hourThad 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. ... Continue reading → Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
106. Thad Ziolkowski
September 19, 2012 04:08 - 1 hourThad Ziolkowski is the author of the debut novel, Wichita (Tonga Books). Also by Thad Ziolkowski: On a Wave: A Memoir Ziolkowski is the author of Our Son the Arson, a collection of poems, and a memoir, On a Wave, which was a finalist for the PEN/Martha Albrand Award in 2003. In 2008, he was awarded a fellowship from the John S. Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. His essays and reviews have appeared in The New York Times, Slate, Bookforum, Artforum, Travel & Leisure and Index. He directs the Wr...
Episode 105 — Leigh Stein
September 16, 2012 04:08 - 1 hourLeigh Stein is today's guest. She's the author of the novel The Fallback Plan and the poetry collection Dispatch from the Future, both of which are now available from Melville House. Publishers Weekly hailed Dispatch as one of its best ... Continue reading → Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
105. Leigh Stein
September 16, 2012 04:08 - 1 hourLeigh Stein is the author of the novel THE FALLBACK PLAN and the poetry collection DISPATCH FROM THE FUTURE (Melville House). Support independent bookstores! Buy your copies here. Also by Leigh Stein: SELF CARE: A NOVEL LAND OF ENCHANTMENT: A MEMOIR WHAT TO MISS WHEN: POEMS *** 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. E...
Episode 104 — David Abrams
September 12, 2012 04:08 - 1 hourDavid 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, ... Continue reading → Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Episode 103 — Dana Johnson
September 09, 2012 04:08 - 1 hourDana 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. Aimee Bender raves I ... Continue reading → Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Episode 102 — Alix Ohlin
September 05, 2012 04:08 - 1 hourAlix 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 ... Continue reading → Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Episode 101 — Matthew Batt
September 02, 2012 04:08 - 1 hourMatthew Batt is today's guest. He's the author of the memoir Sugarhouse, now available from Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. Andre Dubus III raves It’s hard to write funny, especially when your world is crumbling around you, but in this utterly compelling ... Continue reading → Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
101. Matthew Batt
September 02, 2012 04:08 - 1 hourMatthew 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...
Episode 100 — George Saunders
August 29, 2012 04:08 - 1 hourGeorge 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, is due out from Random House in January 2013. ... Continue reading → Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Episode 99 — Elizabeth Ellen
August 26, 2012 04:08 - 1 hourElizabeth Ellen is today's guest. She's the author of the chapbook Before You She Was a Pit Bull (Future Tense) and her latest book, Fast Machine, is a collection of her best work from the last decade. She lives in ... Continue reading → Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices