Otherppl with Brad Listi

George 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

Elizabeth 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 Salon. In 2012 Ellen received a Pushcart Prize for her story, “Teen Culture,” originally published in American Short Fiction and included in her second story collection, Saul Stories (SF/LD, 2017). She is also the author of the story collection Fast Machine (a cult classic published in 2012), the novel Person/a, and the poetry collection Elizabeth Ellen. She is deputy editor at the literary journal Hobart, and, in 2006, Ellen founded Short Flight/Long Drive Books (SF/LD). Through SF/LD, she has published and edited such seminal works as Mary Miller's Big World, Chelsea Martin's Even Though I Don't Miss You, and Chloe Caldwell's Women, among many others. In 2014, Ellen authored a controversial essay for which she was removed from an anthology of ‘provocative women writers’ to be published by Black Lawrence Press. Upon Ellen's public removal from the anthology, several other prominent female writers pulled their names and contributions from the anthology in support of Ellen, including Roxane Gay, Cheryl Strayed, Laura van den Berg, Amelia Gray, Lindsay Hunter, xTx, Mary Miller and Jac Jemc. ***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@otherpplInstagramEmail 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

Pauls 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

Oksana 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

Steve 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

Maria 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

Karl 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

Lidia 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 NovelThe Misfit's Manifesto Allegories of ViolenceThe Small Backs of ChildrenYuknavitch 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., The Iowa Review, Zyzzyva, Another Chicago Magazine, The Sun, Exquisite Corpse, and TANK. She writes, teaches and lives in Portland, OR.***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 Merchwww.otherppl.com@otherpplInstagram Email 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

Patrick 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

Sheila 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 Merchwww.otherppl.com@otherpplInstagram Email the show: letters [at] otherppl [dot] comGet Otherppl t-shirts, sweatshirts, etc.The podcast is a proud affiliate partner of Bookshop, working to support local, independent bookstores. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices