Otherppl with Brad Listi
1,229 episodes - English - Latest episode: 15 days ago - ★★★★★ - 448 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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861. Rebekah Bergman
August 27, 2023 08:08 - 1 hourRebekah Bergman is the author of the debut novel The Museum of Human History, available from Tin House. It is the official August pick of the Otherppl Book Club. Bergman's fiction has been published in Joyland, Tin House, The Masters Review anthology, and other journals. She lives in Rhode Island with her family. *** Otherppl with Brad Listi is a weekly literary podcast featuring in-depth interviews with today's leading writers. Available where podcasts are available: Apple Podcasts, Google P...
Remembering Tom Hansen, 1961-2023
August 26, 2023 08:08 - 1 hourToday, a special episode remembering the life and work of Tom Hansen, who died this week of esophageal cancer. Hansen was born in Seattle and raised by adoptive parents in nearby Edmonds, Washington. A failed skateboarder, dishwasher, and punk rock guitarist, he turned to shooting and dealing smack. He later kicked his habit, returned to school, and eventually earned an MFA in writing from the University of British Columbia. His books include the memoir American Junkie (Soft Skull Press) and ...
Charles Shields on Kurt Vonnegut, WWII, Dresden, Suicide, and The Great Depression
August 25, 2023 08:08 - 26 minutesIn today's flashback, an outtake from Episode 24, my conversation with biographer Charles Shields, author of And So It Goes— Kurt Vonnegut: A Life, available now in trade paperback from St. Martin's Press. It first aired on December 7, 2011. Shields's other books include Mockingbird: A Portrait of Harper Lee, and I Am Scout: The Biography of Harper Lee (Henry Holt Books for Young Readers). He grew up in the Midwest and taught in a rural school in central Illinois for several years. He has bee...
860. Maya Binyam
August 23, 2023 08:08 - 1 hourMaya Binyam is the author of the debut novel Hangman, available from Farrar, Straus, and Giroux. Binyam is a fiction writer and critic whose work has appeared in The Paris Review, The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, New York, Bookforum, Columbia Journalism Review, The New York Times Book Review, and elsewhere. She is a contributing editor at The Paris Review and has previously worked as an editor at Triple Canopy and The New Inquiry. She lives in Los Angeles. *** Otherppl with Brad L...
How to Approach "Truth" in Creative Nonfiction
August 20, 2023 08:08 - 1 hourIn today's 'Craftwork' episode, a conversation with Emily Rapp Black about "truth" in creative nonfiction. Emily is the author of five books of creative nonfiction: Poster Child, The Still Point of the Turning World, which was a New York Times bestseller, Sanctuary, Frida Kahlo and My Left Leg, and I Would Die if I Were You (forthcoming). She is Professor of Creative Writing at UC-Riverside and a co-founder, with Gina Frangello, of Circe Consulting, which offers coaching and developmental ed...
Mat Johnson on Failure, Despair, Persistence, Reviews, and Stealing Time to Write
August 18, 2023 08:08 - 27 minutesIn today's flashback, an outtake from Episode 364, my conversation with Mat Johnson, author of the novel Invisible Things and other books. Johnson is a Philip H. Knight Chair of the Humanities at the University of Oregon. His publications include the novels Loving Day and Pym, the nonfiction novella The Great Negro Plot, and the graphic novel Incognegro. Johnson is the recipient of the American Book Award, the United States Artists James Baldwin Fellowship, The Hurston/Wright Legacy Award, an...
859. Brando Skyhorse
August 16, 2023 08:08 - 1 hourBrando Skyhorse is the author of the novel My Name is Iris, available from Avid Reader Press. Skyhorse's debut novel, The Madonnas of Echo Park, won the 2011 PEN/Hemingway Award and the Sue Kaufman Award for First Fiction from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. His memoir, Take This Man, was named one of Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction Books of 2014 and one of NBC News's 10 Best Latino Books of 2014. He also coedited the anthology, We Wear the Mask: 15 True Stories of Passing in America...
Why Publishing is Broken
August 13, 2023 08:08 - 1 hourIn today's 'Craftwork' episode, a conversation with Kathleen Schmidt. She is a longtime publishing industry veteran with in-depth experience in a variety of roles, including as a publicist, literary agent, acquisitions editor, and ghostwriter. She has worked over the years on 50 New York Times bestsellers. Kathleen is the founder and CEO of Kathleen Schmidt Public Relations, and her Substack newsletter, Publishing Confidential, is an excellent resource where she shares her wealth of inside kn...
Melissa Febos on Hollywood, Bullshit, Extroversion, Celibacy, Loneliness, and Relationships
August 11, 2023 08:08 - 30 minutesIn today's flashback, an outtake from Episode 460, my conversation with Melissa Febos, author of Body Work, Girlhood, and other books. Girlhood was a national bestseller, a Lambda Literary Award finalist, and the winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award in Criticism. Body Work was also a national bestseller, an LA Times Bestseller, and an Indie Next Pick. Her fifth book, The Dry Season, is forthcoming from Alfred. A. Knopf. *** Otherppl with Brad Listi is a weekly literary podcast fea...
858. Lydia Kiesling
August 09, 2023 08:08 - 1 hourLydia Kiesling is the author of the novel Mobility, available from Crooked Media Reads. Kiesling is the author of The Golden State, a 2018 National Book Foundation 5 under 35 honoree, a finalist for the VCU Cabell First Novelist Award, and longlisted for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize. Her writing has appeared in the New York Times Magazine, The New Yorker online, and The Cut, among other outlets. She lives in Portland, Oregon. *** Otherppl with Brad Listi is a weekly literary podca...
857. Khashayar J. Khabushani
August 06, 2023 08:08 - 1 hourKhashayar J. Khabushani is the author of the debut novel I Will Greet the Sun Again, available from Hogarth Books. Khabushani was born in Van Nuys, California, in 1992. During his childhood he spent time in Iran before returning to Los Angeles. He studied philosophy at California State University, Northridge, and prior to completing his MFA at Columbia University he worked as a middle school teacher. *** Otherppl with Brad Listi is a weekly literary podcast featuring in-depth interviews with ...
Michael Schumacher on Allen Ginsberg, New York City, Poetry, Kindness, Controversy, and Writing a Biography
August 04, 2023 08:08 - 29 minutesIn today's flashback, an outtake from Episode 684, my conversation with Michael Schumacher, author of Dharma Lion: A Biography of Allen Ginsberg (University of Minnesota Press). Schumacher has written extensively about Allen Ginsberg and the Beat Generation. His articles, reviews, and essays have appeared in newspapers and magazines across the country. He is editor of Family Business, a collection of letters between Allen and Louis Ginsberg, and The Essential Ginsberg, a volume of the best o...
856. Jamel Brinkley
August 02, 2023 08:08 - 1 hourJamel Brinkley is the author of the story collection Witness, available from Farrar, Straus, & Giroux. Brinkley is the author of A Lucky Man: Stories, which won the Ernest J. Gaines Award for Literary Excellence and was a finalist for the National Book Award, the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize for Debut Fiction, the Story Prize, the John Leonard Prize, and the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award. He has also been awarded an O. Henry Prize, the Rome Prize, a Wallace Stegner Fellowship, and a Lannan Found...
855. Edan Lepucki
July 30, 2023 08:08 - 1 hourEdan Lepucki is the bestselling author of the novel Time's Mouth, available from Counterpoint Press. Lepucki's other books include the novels California and Woman No. 17. She is also the editor of Mothers Before: Stories and Portraits of Our Mothers as We Never Saw Them. Her nonfiction has been published in The New York Times Magazine, the Los Angeles Times, Esquire Magazine, and The Cut, among other publications. She lives in Los Angeles with her family. *** Otherppl with Brad Listi is a wee...
Viet Thanh Nguyen on History, War Movies, Race, Refugees, Vietnam, and the Need for Political Literature
July 28, 2023 08:08 - 26 minutesIn today's flashback, an outtake from Episode 419, my conversation with Pulitzer Prize-winner Viet Thanh Nguyen, author of the bestselling novel The Sympathizer. His other books are Nothing Ever Dies: Vietnam and the Memory of War (a finalist for the National Book Award in nonfiction and the National Book Critics Circle Award in General Nonfiction) and Race and Resistance: Literature and Politics in Asian America. He is a University Professor, the Aerol Arnold Chair of English, and a Professo...
854. Geoff Rickly
July 26, 2023 08:08 - 1 hourGeoff Rickly is the author of the debut novel Someone Who Isn't Me, available from Rose Books. It is the official July pick of the Otherppl Book Club. Rickly is the lead singer and songwriter of Thursday and No Devotion. He lives in Brooklyn, New York, and this is his first book. *** Otherppl with Brad Listi is a weekly literary podcast featuring in-depth interviews with today's leading writers. Available where podcasts are available: Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher, iHeart...
853. Ruth Madievsky
July 23, 2023 08:08 - 1 hourRuth Madievsky is the author of the debut novel All-Night Pharmacy, available from Catapult. Madievsky is the author of a bestselling poetry collection, Emergency Brake (Tavern Books, 2016). Her work appears in Harper's Bazaar, Guernica, Literary Hub, Kenyon Review, Ploughshares, and elsewhere. She is a founding member of the Cheburashka Collective, a community of women and nonbinary writers from the former Soviet Union. Originally from Moldova, she lives in Los Angeles, where she works as a...
Carmen Maria Machado on Anxiety, Death, Childhood, Sick Lit, Writing Letters, and Religion
July 21, 2023 08:08 - 25 minutesIn today's flashback, an outtake from Episode 491, my conversation with Carmen Maria Machado, author of the bestselling memoir In the Dream House. Machado's other books include the graphic novel The Low, Low Woods, and an award-winning short story collection called Her Body and Other Parties. She has been a finalist for the National Book Award and the winner of the Bard Fiction Prize, the Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Fiction, the Lambda Literary Award for LGBTQ Nonfiction, the Brooklyn...
852. Jenny Xie
July 19, 2023 08:08 - 1 hourJenny Xie is the author of the debut novel Holding Pattern, available from Riverhead Books. Xie is a writer and editor living in Brooklyn. Originally from Shanghai, she graduated from the University of California, Berkeley, and earned her MFA at Johns Hopkins University. Her work has appeared in AGNI, Ninth Letter, Joyland, Narrative, and the Best of the Net Anthology. Jenny is the recipient of a Bread Loaf scholarship and fellowships from MacDowell, Yaddo, the Virginia Center for the Creativ...
851. Andrew Lipstein
July 16, 2023 08:08 - 1 hourAndrew Lipstein is the author of the novel The Vegan, available from Farrar, Straus, and Giroux. Lipstein is also the author of Last Resort (FSG, 2022), a novel "you'll think about . . . for weeks after you read the last pages" (Los Angeles Times). He lives in Brooklyn. *** Otherppl with Brad Listi is a weekly literary podcast featuring in-depth interviews with today's leading writers. Available where podcasts are available: Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher, iHeart Radio, e...
D.T. Max on David Foster Wallace, Different Kinds of Intelligence, Bret Easton Ellis, Irony vs. Sincerity, and 12-Step Philosophy
July 14, 2023 08:08 - 28 minutesIn today's flashback, an outtake from Episode 107, my conversation with D.T. Max, New Yorker staff writer and author of Every Love Story is a Ghost Story: A Life of David Foster Wallace, which was published by Viking in 2012. Max's other books include The Family That Couldn’t Sleep: A Medical Mystery and Finale: Late Conversations with Stephen Sondheim. Air date: September 22, 2012 *** Otherppl with Brad Listi is a weekly literary podcast featuring in-depth interviews with today's leading wri...
850. Nicole Flattery
July 12, 2023 08:08 - 1 hourNicole Flattery is the author of the novel Nothing Special, available from Bloomsbury. Flattery is also the author of the story collection Show Them A Good Time. She is the winner of A Post Irish Book Award, the Kate O'Brien Prize, the London Magazine Prize for Debut Fiction, and the White Review Short Story Prize. Her work has appeared in theStinging Fly, the Guardian, the White Review, and the London Review of Books. A graduate of the master's program in creative writing at Trinity College,...
849. Sarah Rose Etter
July 09, 2023 08:08 - 1 hourSarah Rose Etter is the author of the novel Ripe, available from Scribner. Etter's other books include The Book of X and Tongue Party. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in The Cut, Electric Literature, Vice, Guernica, Philadelphia Weekly, and more. She is the recipient of writing residencies in Portugal and the Gullkistan Creative Program in Iceland. She earned her MFA degree from Rosemont College. *** Otherppl with Brad Listi is a weekly literary podcast featuring in-depth interviews ...
Elif Batuman on Epistolary Relationships, Childhood, the Foolishness of Youth, Creative Humiliation, Perseverance, and Finding the Beauty in Yourself
July 07, 2023 08:08 - 26 minutesIn today's flashback, an outtake from Episode 506, my conversation with Elif Batuman. Elif Batuman's first novel, The Idiot, was a finalist for a Pulitzer Prize, and was shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction in the UK. She is also the author of a novel called Either/Or, published in 2022, as well as The Possessed: Adventures with Russian Books and the People Who Read Them, which was a finalist for a National Book Critics Circle Award in criticism. She has been a staff writer at The Ne...
848. Patrick deWitt
July 05, 2023 08:08 - 1 hourPatrick deWitt is the author of the novel The Librarianist, available from Ecco. His other books include the novels French Exit, a national bestseller; The Sisters Brothers, a New York Times bestseller short-listed for the Booker Prize; and the critically acclaimed Undermajordomo Minor and Ablutions. Born in British Columbia, he now resides in Portland, Oregon. *** Otherppl with Brad Listi is a weekly literary podcast featuring in-depth interviews with today's leading writers. Available wher...
How to Start an Indie Press
July 02, 2023 08:08 - 1 hourChelsea Hodson is the author of the essay collection Tonight I'm Someone Else, which came out in 2018. She is the founder of the new indie press Rose Books as well as the Morning Writing Club, and is currently booking one-on-one writing coaching sessions on her website. The first Rose Books title, Someone Who Isn't Me, the debut novel by Geoff Rickly, will be published on July 25, and it is the July selection for the Otherppl Book Club. It is available for preorder now via rosebooks.co. *** ...
Hanya Yanagihara on Big Books, Writing Quickly, Creative Immersion, Great Readers, Complex Interiors, and the Removal of Context
June 30, 2023 08:08 - 24 minutesIn today's flashback, an outtake from Episode 401, my conversation with Hanya Yanagihara from February 2016. Hanya Yanagihara is a prize-winning author and the Editor-in-Chief of T: The New York Times Style Magazine. Her novel entitled To Paradise, published in 2022, was a #1 NY Times bestseller. Her novel A Little Life, won the 2015 Kirkus Prize, was a finalist for the National Book Award and the 2016 Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction, and was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize. The People...
847. Tess Gunty
June 28, 2023 08:08 - 1 hourTess Gunty is the author of the debut novel The Rabbit Hutch, now available in trade paperback from Vintage. It received the National Book Award for Fiction in 2022. Gunty earned an MFA in creative writing from NYU, where she was a Lillian Vernon Fellow. Her work has appeared in The Iowa Review, Joyland, Los Angeles Review of Books, No Tokens, Flash, and elsewhere. She was raised in South Bend, Indiana, and lives in Los Angeles. *** Otherppl with Brad Listi is a weekly literary podcast featur...
846. Lorrie Moore
June 25, 2023 08:08 - 1 hourLorrie Moore is the bestselling author of the novel I Am Homeless if This Is Not My Home, available from Knopf. Moore is the Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Professor of English at Vanderbilt University. She is the recipient of a Lannan Foundation Fellowship, as well as the PEN/Malamud Award and the Rea Award for her achievement in the short story. She is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. She lives in Nashville, Tennessee. *** Otherppl with Brad Listi is a weekly literary po...
Tim O'Brien on Death, Fatherhood, Child Wisdom, Pacifism, War, Memory, and the Illusion of Self
June 23, 2023 08:08 - 22 minutesIn today's flashback, an outtake from Episode 616, my conversation with Tim O'Brien from December 2019. O'Brien received the 1979 National Book Award for Going After Cacciato. Among his other books are The Things They Carried, Pulitzer Finalist and a New York TimesBook of the Century, and In the Lake of the Woods, winner of the James Fenimore Cooper Prize. He was awarded the Pritzker Literature Award for lifetime achievement in military writing in 2013. His new novel, America Fantastica, is d...
845. Leila Slimani
June 21, 2023 08:08 - 1 hourLeila Slimani is the author of the novel Watch Us Dance, available from Viking. Translated by Sam Taylor. Slimani is the bestselling author of The Perfect Nanny, one of The New York Times Book Review's 10 Best Books of 2018, for which she became the first Moroccan woman to win France's most prestigious literary prize, the Goncourt. Her other books include Adèle, Sex and Lies, and the #1 international bestseller In the Country of Others the first part of a trilogy of novels based on her famil...
844. Alejandra Oliva
June 18, 2023 08:08 - 1 hourAlejandra Oliva is the author of Rivermouth: A Chronicle of Language, Faith, and Migration, available from Astra House. Oliva is an essayist, translator, immigrant justice advocate, and embroiderer. She is a recipient of the 2022 Creative Nonfiction Whiting Grant. Her writing has been included in Best American Travel Writing 2020, was nominated for a Pushcart prize, and was honored with an Aspen Summer Words Emerging Writers Fellowship. She was the Frankie Fellow at the Yale Whitney Hummaniti...
Pulitzer Special: Hernan Diaz and Ingrid Rojas Contreras
June 16, 2023 08:08 - 1 hourToday on the program, a special Pulitzer Prize episode featuring authors Hernan Diaz and Ingrid Rojas Contreras. Diaz won a 2023 Pulitzer Prize in Fiction for his bestselling novel Trust, and Contreras was a National Book Award finalist and a 2023 Pulitzer Prize finalist for her memoir The Man Who Could Move Clouds. In the episode, you'll hear outtakes from Episode 775, my conversation with Hernan (air date: June 1, 2022); and my conversation with Ingrid in Episode 785 (air date: August 10, ...
843. Molly Lynch
June 14, 2023 08:08 - 1 hourMolly Lynch is the author of the debut novel The Forbidden Territory of a Terrifying Woman, available from Catapult. Lynch grew up on the west coast of Canada and lived in Ireland as a teenager. She worked in Dublin, Cork, Manchester and Malaga before moving to Montreal to study literature. She's spent time in Syria, Lebanon and Turkey and moved to Baltimore where she earned an MFA from the Johns Hopkins Writing Seminars. She now teaches creative writing at the University of Michigan. *** Oth...
842. Tania James
June 11, 2023 08:08 - 1 hourTania James is the author of the novel Loot, available from Knopf. James is the author of the novels The Tusk That Did the Damage and Atlas of Unknowns and the short story collection Aerogrammes. Her fiction has appeared in Boston Review, Granta, Guernica, One Story, A Public Space, and The Kenyon Review. She lives in Washington, D.C. *** Otherppl with Brad Listi is a weekly literary podcast featuring in-depth interviews with today's leading writers. Available where podcasts are available: A...
Andre Dubus III on Family, Divorce, Fear, Poverty, Vigilante Justice, Writing as Salvation, and the Divine
June 09, 2023 08:08 - 23 minutesIn today's flashback, an outtake from Episode 549, my conversation with Andre Dubus III from October 2018. Dubus is the author of several books, including Dirty Love, The Garden of Last Days, House of Sand and Fog (a New York Times bestseller, Oprah's Book Club pick, and finalist for the National Book Award), and a memoir called Townie. Earlier this month, he published his latest novel, entitled Such Kindness, available now from W.W. Norton & Co. I spoke with Andre Dubus III as he was on tour...
Flashback: Andre Dubus III on Family, Divorce, Fear, Poverty, Vigilante Justice, Writing as Salvation, and the Divine
June 09, 2023 08:08 - 21 minutesIn today's flashback, an outtake from Episode 549, my conversation with Andre Dubus III from October 2018. Dubus is the author of several books, including Dirty Love, The Garden of Last Days, House of Sand and Fog (a New York Times bestseller, Oprah's Book Club pick, and finalist for the National Book Award), and a memoir called Townie. Earlier this month, he published his latest novel, entitled Such Kindness, available now from W.W. Norton & Co. I spoke with Andre Dubus III as he was on tour...
841. Jasmin Iolani Hakes
June 07, 2023 08:08 - 1 hourJasmin 'Iolani Hakes is the author of the debut novel Hula, available from HarperVia. Hakes was born and raised in Hilo, Hawai'i. Her essays have appeared in the Los Angeles Times and the Sacramento Bee. She is the recipient of the Best Fiction award from the Southern California Writers Conference, a Squaw Valley LoJo Foundation Scholarship, a Writing by Writers Emerging Voices fellowship, and a Hedgebrook residency. Dance has always been central to Jasmin's life and creativity. She took her...
840. Jim Ruland
June 04, 2023 08:08 - 1 hourJim Ruland is the author of the novel Make It Stop, available from Rare Bird Books. Ruland is the co-author of Do What You Want with Bad Religion, and My Damage with Keith Morris, the founding vocalist of Black Flag, Circle Jerks, and OFF! Ruland has been writing for punk zines such as Flipside and Razorcake for more than twenty-five years and his work has received awards from Reader's Digest and the National Endowment for the Arts. *** Otherppl with Brad Listi is a weekly literary podcast fe...
Flashback: Roxane Gay on Hateful Men, Twitter, Breaking Barriers, Selling Books, Channing Tatum, and Hunger
June 02, 2023 08:08 - 21 minutesIn today's flashback, an outtake from Episode 448, my conversation with Roxane Gay from January 2017. Roxane Gay is the bestselling author of the books Bad Feminist, Hunger, An Untamed State, Difficult Women, and Ayiti. She is a contributing opinion writer for the New York Times. She wrote The World of Wakanda, the Marvel Comics Series. She has a Substack called The Audacity, which has its own very popular book club. And this month, her publishing imprint, Roxane Gay Books, which she launched...
Roxane Gay on Hateful Men, Twitter, Breaking Barriers, Selling Books, Channing Tatum, and Hunger
June 02, 2023 08:08 - 23 minutesIn today's flashback, an outtake from Episode 448, my conversation with Roxane Gay from January 2017. Roxane Gay is the bestselling author of the books Bad Feminist, Hunger, An Untamed State, Difficult Women, and Ayiti. She is a contributing opinion writer for the New York Times. She wrote The World of Wakanda, the Marvel Comics Series. She has a Substack called The Audacity, which has its own very popular book club. And this month, her publishing imprint, Roxane Gay Books, which she launched...
839. Bea Setton
May 31, 2023 08:08 - 1 hourBea Setton is the author of the debut novel Berlin, available from Penguin Books. Setton was born in Paris to Franco-British parents and has lived in the US, Colombia, Belgium, Germany, and the UK. Currently residing in London, Setton holds an MPhil in Philosophy and Theology from Cambridge University and gives her time mentoring for Black Girls Writers. Her critical and creative writing has started popping up in popular outlets such as The Irish Times and Female First. *** Otherppl with Bra...
How to Start a Literary Magazine
May 28, 2023 08:08 - 1 hourDeclan Meade is the guest. He is the founding editor and publisher of The Stinging Fly, one of the world’s premiere literary magazines, based in Dublin, Ireland. You may have read about Declan and The Stinging Fly in the New York Times back in April 2023, in a feature story by Max Ufberg. The Stinging Fly Magazine was founded in 1997 by Declan Meade and Aoife Kavanaugh. The first issue appeared in March 1998 and the magazine now publishes twice annually, working to give new and emerging writ...
Jonathan Franzen on Ambition, Plot, Childhood, Birdwatching, and Life-Changing Advice
May 26, 2023 08:08 - 25 minutesIn today's flashback, an outtake from Episode 426, my conversation with Jonathan Franzen from August 2016. He is the author of six novels, most recently Crossroads. He has also published five works of nonfiction, including The Discomfort Zone, Farther Away, and The End of the End of the Earth. Over the course of his career, Franzen has received the National Book Award, the James Tait Black Memorial Award, the Heartland Prize, Die Welt Literature Prize, the Budapest Grand Prize, and the first ...
Flashback: Jonathan Franzen on Ambition, Plot, Childhood, Birdwatching, and Life-Changing Advice
May 26, 2023 08:08 - 23 minutesIn today's flashback, an outtake from Episode 426, my conversation with Jonathan Franzen from August 2016. He is the author of six novels, most recently Crossroads. He has also published five works of nonfiction, including The Discomfort Zone, Farther Away, and The End of the End of the Earth. Over the course of his career, Franzen has received the National Book Award, the James Tait Black Memorial Award, the Heartland Prize, Die Welt Literature Prize, the Budapest Grand Prize, and the first...
How the Horror Genre Works
May 24, 2023 08:08 - 1 hourIn the latest "Craftwork" episode, a deep-dive conversation about the horror genre with author and story expert John Truby. His latest book, The Anatomy of Genres: How Story Forms Explain the Way the World Works, is available from Picador. Truby is the founder and director of Truby's Writers Studio. Over the past thirty years, he has taught more than fifty thousand students worldwide, including novelists, screenwriters, and TV writers. Together, these writers have generated more than fifteen...
838. Ivy Pochoda
May 21, 2023 08:08 - 1 hourIvy Pochoda is the author of the novel Sing Her Down, available from MCD Books. Pochoda's other books include the acclaimed novels Wonder Valley, Visitation Street, and These Women. She won the 2018 Strand Critics Award for Best Novel and the Prix Page/America in France, and has been a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, the Edgar Award, the Macavity Award, and the International Thriller Writers Award. Her writing has appeared in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and the...
Flashback: Ottessa Moshfegh on Creative Inspiration, Mental Anguish, Substance Abuse, Sobriety, and Writing Into the Dark Places
May 19, 2023 08:08 - 15 minutesToday I'm launching a new feature on the Otherppl podcast: flashback episodes from the Otherppl archives. These flashbacks will be short-form, and they will happen on Fridays. They will feature highlights from past conversations: bits of insight and instruction and commiseration and revelation. Today, in this inaugural flashback episode, an outtake from Episode 532, my conversation with bestselling author Ottessa Moshfegh. Eileen, her debut novel, was shortlisted for the National Book Criti...
Ottessa Moshfegh on Creative Inspiration, Mental Anguish, Substance Abuse, Sobriety, and Writing Into the Dark Places
May 19, 2023 08:08 - 18 minutesToday I'm launching a new feature on the Otherppl podcast: flashback episodes from the Otherppl archives. These flashbacks will be short-form, and they will happen on Fridays. They will feature highlights from past conversations: bits of insight and instruction and commiseration and revelation. Today, in this inaugural flashback episode, an outtake from Episode 532, my conversation with bestselling author Ottessa Moshfegh. Eileen, her debut novel, was shortlisted for the National Book Critic...
837. Anne Elizabeth Moore
May 17, 2023 08:08 - 1 hourAnne Elizabeth Moore is the author of the essay collection Body Horror: Capitalism, Fear, Misogyny, Jokes, available from The Feminist Press. It is the official May pick of the Otherppl Book Club. Moore was born in Winner, SD. She is the author of Unmarketable (2007), the Eisner Award-winning Sweet Little Cunt (2018), Gentrifier: A Memoir (2021), which was an NPR Best Book of the Year, and others. She is the founding editor of Houghton Mifflin's Best American Comics and the former editor of P...