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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99. Elizabeth Ellen
August 26, 2012 04:08 - 1 hourElizabeth 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 Sal...
Episode 98 — Pauls Toutonghi
August 22, 2012 04:08 - 1 hourPauls 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....With writing both gently ironical ... Continue reading → Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Episode 97 — Oksana Marafioti
August 19, 2012 04:08 - 1 hourOksana 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 Nationality ... Continue reading → Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Episode 96 — Steve Roggenbuck
August 15, 2012 04:08 - 1 hourSteve 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, which is available via Spreecast. ... Continue reading → Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Episode 95 — Maria Semple
August 12, 2012 04:08 - 1 hourMaria 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 ... Continue reading → Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Episode 94 — Karl Taro Greenfeld
August 08, 2012 04:08 - 1 hourKarl 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 ... Continue reading → Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Episode 93 — Lidia Yuknavitch
August 05, 2012 04:08 - 1 hourLidia Yuknavitch is today's guest. She's the author of several books, including the critically acclaimed memoir The Chronology of Water, and now she has published her debut novel, called Dora: A Headcase. Both titles are available from Hawthorne Books. Chuck ... Continue reading → Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
93. Lidia Yuknavitch
August 05, 2012 04:08 - 1 hourLidia 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.,...
Episode 92 — Patrick Wensink
August 01, 2012 04:08 - 1 hourPatrick 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. Publishers Weekly calls it [A] psychedelic trip of a novel. ... Continue reading → Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Episode 91 — Sheila Heti
July 29, 2012 04:08 - 1 hourSheila Heti is today's guest. She is the Interviews Editor at The Believer magazine, and her new novel, How Should a Person Be?, is now available in the United States from Henry Holt. Miranda July raves: A new kind of ... Continue reading → Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
91. Sheila Heti
July 29, 2012 04:08 - 1 hourSheila Heti is the author of How Should a Person Be? (Henry Holt). Heti is the author of several books of fiction and nonfiction, including Motherhood and Ticknor. Her books have been translated into twenty-one languages. *** 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 Merch www.otherppl.com @otherppl In...
Episode 90 — Christopher Beha
July 25, 2012 04:08 - 1 hourChristopher Beha is the guest. He's an associate editor at Harper's magazine and the author of the debut novel What Happened to Sophie Wilder, now available from Tin House Books. Raves Shelf Awareness: Christopher Beha's short but intricately constructed first ... Continue reading → Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Episode 89 — Jess Walter
July 22, 2012 04:08 - 1 hourJess Walter is the guest. He's a National Book Award nominee and the author of several novels, the most recent of which is called Beautiful Ruins, now available from Harper. Helen Schulman, writing for the New York Times Book Review, ... Continue reading → Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Episode 88 — Christopher Narozny
July 18, 2012 04:08 - 1 hourChristopher Narozny is the guest. His debut novel, Jonah Man, is now available from Ig Publishing. Raves Patrick DeWitt, author of The Sisters Brothers: Jonah Man is a vivid and unsettling portrait of naked American ambition, and Chris Narozny is ... Continue reading → Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Episode 87 — Scott McClanahan
July 15, 2012 04:08 - 1 hourScott McClanahan is the guest. He is the author of several books, the latest of which is called The Complete Works of Scott McClanahan, Vol. 1, now available from Lazy Fascist Press. Volume I Brooklyn raves: He might be one ... Continue reading → Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Episode 86 — Alexis Smith
July 11, 2012 04:08 - 1 hourAlexis Smith is today's guest. Her debut novel, Glaciers, is now available from Tin House Books. Publishers Weekly, in a starred review, calls it ...lyrical and luminous... And Karen Russell, bestselling author of Swamplandia!, raves Glaciers, Alexis Smith’s brilliant debut ... Continue reading → Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Episode 85 — Seth Greenland
July 08, 2012 04:08 - 1 hourSeth Greenland is the guest. He's the author of three novels, the most recent of which is The Angry Buddhist, now available from Europa Editions. The New York Times calls it: ...a fine, high-end beach read for this election ... Continue reading → Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
85. Seth Greenland
July 08, 2012 04:08 - 1 hourSeth Greenland is the author of three novels, the most recent of which is The Angry Buddhist (Europa Editions). Also by Seth Greenland: A Kingdom of Tender Colors The Hazards of Good Fortune I Regret Everything: A Love Story Greenland's work has appeared in the Los Angeles Times, the Los Angeles Review of Books, Le Monde, Le Figaro, Quillette, the Jewish Journal, Black Clock, and the French literary journal America. He lives in Los Angeles with his wife, the author Susan Kaiser Greenland....
Episode 84 — Elizabeth Collins
July 04, 2012 04:08 - 1 hourElizabeth Collins is today's guest. She's the editor of The Beautiful Anthology, a collection of essays, stories, and poems from TNB Books, all of which are centered on the topic of beauty. She's also the author of a memoir called ... Continue reading → Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Episode 83 — Joshua Henkin
July 01, 2012 04:08 - 1 hourJoshua Henkin is the guest. He is the author of several books, the most recent of which is a novel called The World Without You, now available from Pantheon. He is also the director of the MFA program in Fiction ... Continue reading → Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
83. Joshua Henkin
July 01, 2012 04:08 - 1 hourJoshua Henkin is the author of the novel The World Without You (Pantheon). His other books include Morningside Heights, Swimming Across the Hudson, a Los Angeles Times Notable Book, and Matrimony, a New York Times Notable Book. His short stories have been published widely, cited for distinction in Best American Short Stories, and broadcast on NPR's Selected Shorts. He lives in Brooklyn, NY, and directs the MFA program in Fiction Writing at Brooklyn College. *** Otherppl with Brad Listi is a ...
Episode 82 — Jürgen Fauth
June 27, 2012 04:08 - 1 hourToday's episode of Other People is brought to you by Audible.com. And here's a special offer: Right now, listeners of this program can get a free audiobook download and a free 30-day trial. To get your free audiobook, just click ... Continue reading → Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
82. Jürgen Fauth
June 27, 2012 04:08 - 1 hourJürgen Fauth is the author of the novel KINO (Atticus Books). Fauth is also the author of Raves and The Ashakiran Tape. He lives in Berlin and Dakar. *** 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...
Episode 81 — Kate Christensen
June 24, 2012 04:08 - 1 hourKate Christensen is today's guest (photo credit: Marion Ettlinger). She's the author of six novels, the fourth of which, The Great Man, won the 2008 PEN/Faulkner Award. Her latest novel, The Astral, is now available in trade paperback from Anchor ... Continue reading → Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Episode 80 — Erik Larson
June 20, 2012 04:08 - 56 minutesToday's episode of Other People is brought to you by Audible.com. And here's a special offer: Right now, listeners of this program can get a free audiobook download and a free 30-day trial. To get your free audiobook, just click ... Continue reading → Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Episode 79 — Elizabeth Crane
June 17, 2012 04:08 - 1 hourElizabeth Crane is the guest. She's the author of three story collections—When the Messenger is Hot, All This Heavenly Glory, and You Must Be This Happy to Enter. Her debut novel, We Only Know So Much, is now available from ... Continue reading → Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Episode 78 — Miles Klee
June 13, 2012 04:08 - 1 hourMiles Klee is the guest. He's the author of a debut novel called Ivyland, now available from O/R Books. Publishers Weekly raves: Delightfully manic and sharply intelligent … Klee is undoubtedly a formidable talent in the making—he can make sentences crackle ... Continue reading → Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
78. Miles Klee
June 13, 2012 04:08 - 1 hourMiles Klee is the author of a debut novel called Ivyland (O/R Books). Support indie bookstores! Shop here. Klee is also the author of the story collection True False (OR Books 2015). He lives in LA and writes for MEL Magazine. *** 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.other...
Episode 77 — Ron Rash
June 10, 2012 04:08 - 59 minutes**Today's show is sponsored by Audible, which is offering a special deal to listeners of Other People. Right now, you can get a free audiobook, along with a free 30-day trial, by visiting audiblepodcast.com/otherpeople. Do that. Get your freebie. It ... Continue reading → Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
77. Ron Rash
June 10, 2012 04:08 - 1 hourRon Rash is the author of the novel The Cove (Ecco). Rash is the author of six novels, five collections of short stories, and four collections of poetry. He is also a two-time finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Prize and winner of the O Henry Prize, the Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award, the Sherwood Anderson Prize, the James Still Award of the Fellowship of Southern Writers, and other honors. He teaches at Western Carolina University. Also by Ron Rash: Serena Above the Waterfall No...
Episode 76 — Esi Edugyan
June 06, 2012 04:08 - 1 hourEsi Edugyan is the guest. She's a Canadian author whose novel, Half-Blood Blues, was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize in 2011. It won the Scotiabank Giller Prize, and is now available from Picador here in the United States. The ... Continue reading → Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Episode 75 — Jerry Stahl
June 03, 2012 04:08 - 1 hourJerry Stahl is today's guest. He's the author of several books, including the memoir Permanent Midnight, which was adapted into a film starring Ben Stiller. Other titles include novels like I, Fatty and Pain Killers. And most recently, he co-authored ... Continue reading → Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
75. Jerry Stahl
June 03, 2012 04:08 - 1 hourJerry Stahl is the author of several books, including the memoir Permanent Midnight, which was adapted into a film starring Ben Stiller. Stahl's other books include Perv: A Love Story, Pain Killers, Plainclothes Naked, Happy Mutant Baby Pills, Love Without, OG Dad, and I, Fatty. He has written extensively for film and television. *** Otherppl with Brad Listi is a weekly literary podcast featuring in-depth interviews with today's leading writers. Launched in 2011. Books. Literature. Writing...
Episode 74 — Jim Lynch
May 30, 2012 04:08 - 1 hourJim Lynch is today's guest. He's the author of three novels, the most recent of which is Truth Like the Sun, now available from Knopf. It was the May selection for the TNB Book Club. Janet Maslin of the New ... Continue reading → Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Episode 73 — Elna Baker
May 27, 2012 04:08 - 1 hourElna Baker is the guest. She's the author of memoir The New York Regional Mormon Singles Halloween Dance, now available from Penguin. She's also an accomplished performer, having appeared at The Moth, on This American Life, WTF, Studio 360, Radiolab, ... Continue reading → Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Episode 72 — Edgar Oliver
May 23, 2012 04:08 - 1 hourEdgar Oliver is the guest. He is an American stage and film actor, a poet, a performance artist, and a playwright. His poetry collections include The Man Who Loved Plants, and his plays include The Drowning Pages. Onstage, he has ... Continue reading → Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
72. Edgar Oliver
May 23, 2012 04:08 - 1 hourEdgar Oliver is the guest. He is an American stage and film actor, a poet, a performance artist, and a playwright. His poetry collections include The Man Who Loved Plants, and his plays include The Drowning Pages. *** 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 @othe...
Episode 71 — Ben Fountain
May 20, 2012 04:08 - 1 hourBen Fountain is the guest. He is the author of the debut short story collection Brief Encounters with Che Guevara (Harper Perennial), which won him the PEN/Hemingway Award. And now he has published his first novel, entitled Billy Lynn's Long ... Continue reading → Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
71. Ben Fountain
May 20, 2012 04:08 - 1 hourBen Fountain is the author of the novel Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk (Ecco Press). He was born in Chapel Hill and grew up in the tobacco country of eastern North Carolina. A former practicing attorney, he is the author of Brief Encounters with Che Guevara, which won the PEN/Hemingway Award and the Barnes & Noble Discover Award for Fiction. Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk won the National Book Critics' Circle Award and was a finalist for the National Book Award. It was then adapted into a...
Episode 70 — Emily St. John Mandel
May 16, 2012 04:08 - 1 hourEmily St. John Mandel is the guest. Her latest novel is called The Lola Quartet, and it is available now from Unbridled Books. Library Journal, in a starred review, raves: In this transcendent third novel, Emily St. John Mandel combines ... Continue reading → Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Episode 69 — Etgar Keret
May 13, 2012 04:08 - 1 hourEtgar 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 ... Continue reading → Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Episode 68 — David Rees
May 09, 2012 04:08 - 1 hourDavid Rees is the guest. He's the author of How to Sharpen Pencils, a practical and theoretical treatise on the artisanal craft of pencil sharpening, for writers, artists, contractors, flange turners, anglesmiths, and civil servants, with illustrations showing current practice, ... Continue reading → Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
68. David Rees
May 09, 2012 04:08 - 1 hourDavid Rees is the author of How to Sharpen Pencils: A Practical & Theoretical Treatise on the Artisanal Craft of Pencil Sharpening for Writers, Artists, Contractors, Flange Turners, Anglesmiths, & Civil Servants (Melville House). Rees is a humorist and cultural critic. He first rose to prominence as a cartoonist whose best known work combined bland clip art with "trash talk." Rees later created an artisanal pencil sharpening service and has now published a related book on the subject. He als...
Episode 67 — Chloe Caldwell
May 06, 2012 04:08 - 1 hourChloe Caldwell is today's guest. She's the author of a debut essay collection called Legs Get Led Astray, now available from Future Tense Books. Raves Cheryl Strayed: Chloe Caldwell’s Legs Get Led Astray is a scorching hot glitter box of youthful despair and ... Continue reading → Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
67. Chloe Caldwell
May 06, 2012 04:08 - 1 hourChloe 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 ...
Episode 66 — Kris D’Agostino
May 02, 2012 04:08 - 1 hourKris D'Agostino is the guest. He's the author of the debut novel The Sleepy Hollow Family Almanac (Algonquin), which was the March selection for the TNB Book Club. Raves Brock Clarke, author of Exley: A singularly funny, bitter, bold book ... Continue reading → Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
66. Kris D’Agostino
May 02, 2012 04:08 - 1 hourKris 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 ...
Episode 65 — Matt Bell
April 29, 2012 04:08 - 1 hourMatt Bell is the guest. He's 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. Karen Russell, author of ... Continue reading → Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
65. Matt Bell
April 29, 2012 04:08 - 1 hourMatt 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 Hous...
Episode 64 — Noah Hawley
April 25, 2012 04:08 - 1 hourNoah 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. He wrote ... Continue reading → Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices