Character Study, Vol. 2. 'Character Studies' is a new series on the podcast featuring interviews with 'civilians'—ordinary adult humans of all ages and backgrounds, talking with Brad about their lives. In Vol. 2, a conversation with a 24-year-old trans man named Cody who works as a commercial cleaner in Calgary, Alberta, Canada.***Otherppl with Brad Listi is a weekly podcast featuring in-depth interviews with today's leading writers.Available where podcasts are available: Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube, etc.Subscribe to Brad Listi’s email newsletter.Support the show on PatreonMerchTwitterInstagram TikTokBlueskyEmail the show: letters [at] otherppl [dot] comThe podcast is a proud affiliate partner of Bookshop, working to support local, independent bookstores. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Volume 36 of Brad & Mira For the Culture...the crushingly sad last days of Gene Hackman that are so depressing it makes you feel like Alec Baldwin just to think about it...There Will Be Baldwins...Adrien Brody's Italian trust-fund baby haute couture...Ben and Jen and Jen...and more...***Otherppl with Brad Listi is a weekly podcast featuring in-depth interviews with today's leading writers.Available where podcasts are available: Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube, etc.Subscribe to Brad Listi’s email newsletter.Support the show on PatreonMerchTwitterInstagram TikTokBlueskyEmail the show: letters [at] otherppl [dot] comThe podcast is a proud affiliate partner of Bookshop, working to support local, independent bookstores. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Lidia Yuknavitch is the author of a new memoir called Reading the Waves, available from Riverhead Books.Yuknavitch is the nationally bestselling author of the novels Thrust, The Book of Joan, The Small Backs of Chil­dren, and Dora: A Headcase, and of the memoir The Chronology of Water. She is the recipient of two Oregon Book Awards and has been a finalist for the Brooklyn Public Library Literary Prize and the PEN Center USA Award for creative nonfic­tion. She lives in Oregon.***Otherppl with Brad Listi is a weekly podcast featuring in-depth interviews with today's leading writers.Available where podcasts are available: Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube, etc.Subscribe to Brad Listi’s email newsletter.Support the show on PatreonMerchTwitterInstagram TikTokBlueskyEmail the show: letters [at] otherppl [dot] comThe podcast is a proud affiliate partner of Bookshop, working to support local, independent bookstores. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Character Study, Vol. 1. This is a new series on the podcast, featuring interviews with 'civilians'—ordinary adult humans of all ages and backgrounds, talking with Brad about their lives. 'Character Studies' episodes will air on Sundays—not necessarily every Sunday—and these conversations will offer listeners access to the hearts and minds and dreams and fears of people they would likely never know otherwise. In Vol. 1, a conversation with a 34-year-old woman named Sophia who works as a customer success manager in Texas. ***Otherppl with Brad Listi is a weekly podcast featuring in-depth interviews with today's leading writers.Available where podcasts are available: Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube, etc.Subscribe to Brad Listi’s email newsletter.Support the show on PatreonMerchTwitterInstagram TikTokBlueskyEmail the show: letters [at] otherppl [dot] comThe podcast is a proud affiliate partner of Bookshop, working to support local, independent bookstores. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Volume 35 of Brad & Mira For the Culture...Mira moves...The Baldwins string us along...Oscars recap and Brad's Fashion Corner...what the hell happened to the great Gene Hackman, who made twee men cry and could beat you to a pulp with his bare hands in his eighth decade...and more...***Otherppl with Brad Listi is a weekly podcast featuring in-depth interviews with today's leading writers.Available where podcasts are available: Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube, etc.Subscribe to Brad Listi’s email newsletter.Support the show on PatreonMerchTwitterInstagram TikTokBlueskyEmail the show: letters [at] otherppl [dot] comThe podcast is a proud affiliate partner of Bookshop, working to support local, independent bookstores. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Curtis Sittenfeld is the author of the story collection Show Don't Tell, available from Random House. Sittenfeld’s New York Times bestselling books have been translated into thirty languages and twice selected as Reese’s Book Club picks. They include the novels Prep, American Wife, Eligible, Rodham, and Romantic Comedy, and the story collection You Think It, I’ll Say It. Sittenfeld’s stories have appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, and The Best American Short Stories, of which she was the 2020 guest editor. She lives with her family in Minneapolis.***Otherppl with Brad Listi is a weekly podcast featuring in-depth interviews with today's leading writers.Available where podcasts are available: Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube, etc.Subscribe to Brad Listi’s email newsletter.Support the show on PatreonMerchBlueskyInstagram TikTokEmail the show: letters [at] otherppl [dot] comThe podcast is a proud affiliate partner of Bookshop, working to support local, independent bookstores. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Volume 34 of Brad & Mira For the Culture...recapping the debut of The Baldwins...Timmy-Tim wants to be great...corpse on a plane...the Sheen family OnlyFans fetish...and more...***Otherppl with Brad Listi is a weekly podcast featuring in-depth interviews with today's leading writers.Available where podcasts are available: Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube, etc.Subscribe to Brad Listi’s email newsletter.Support the show on PatreonMerchTwitterInstagram TikTokBlueskyEmail the show: letters [at] otherppl [dot] comThe podcast is a proud affiliate partner of Bookshop, working to support local, independent bookstores. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Virginia Feito is the author of the novel Victorian Psycho, available from Liveright Publishing. It is the official February pick of the Otherppl Book Club.Feito, raised in Madrid and Paris, studied English and drama at Queen Mary University of London and advertising at Miami Ad School. She writes regularly for Vanity Fair Spain and is the author of the acclaimed Mrs. March.***Otherppl with Brad Listi is a weekly podcast featuring in-depth interviews with today's leading writers.Available where podcasts are available: Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube, etc.Subscribe to Brad Listi’s email newsletter.Support the show on PatreonMerchTwitterInstagram TikTokBlueskyEmail the show: letters [at] otherppl [dot] comThe podcast is a proud affiliate partner of Bookshop, working to support local, independent bookstores. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A quick Sunday episode wherein I share some exciting news: Later this year, I will be launching a new company called DeepDive, which specializes in the creation of long-form educational audio. The debut course from DeepDive will be 'How to Write a Novel,' and it will feature more than 50 hours of never-before-heard conversations with dozens of today's leading writers, including Emily St. John Mandel, Porochista Khakpour, Melissa Broder, Steve Almond, V.V. Ganeshananthan, Lynn Steger Strong, Vauhini Vara, Lydia Kiesling, Madelaine Lucas, Matt Bell, Jerry Stahl, Hannah Pittard, Kimberly King Parsons, Gina Frangello, Stephen Graham Jones, and many more. The official DeepDive website is www.deepdive.audio. And please follow DeepDive on Instagram and on BlueSky.You can sign up for the official DeepDive newsletter right here. And you can read my Substack announcement here.***Otherppl with Brad Listi is a weekly podcast featuring in-depth interviews with today's leading writers.Available where podcasts are available: Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube, etc.Subscribe to Brad Listi’s email newsletter.Support the show on PatreonMerchTwitterInstagram TikTokBlueskyEmail the show: letters [at] otherppl [dot] comThe podcast is a proud affiliate partner of Bookshop, working to support local, independent bookstores. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Volume 33 of Brad & Mira For the Culture...SNL and Brad both turn 50 this year...Brad's Fashion Corner...Kevin Spacey lashes out...Taylor Swift is nobody's dragon...Megan Markle can't stop rebranding...and more...***Otherppl with Brad Listi is a weekly podcast featuring in-depth interviews with today's leading writers.Available where podcasts are available: Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube, etc.Subscribe to Brad Listi’s email newsletter.Support the show on PatreonMerchTwitterInstagram TikTokBlueskyEmail the show: letters [at] otherppl [dot] comThe podcast is a proud affiliate partner of Bookshop, working to support local, independent bookstores. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices