

Otherppl with Brad Listi
Brad Listi
Otherppl with Brad Listi is a weekly books and culture podcast featuring in-depth conversations with today's leading authors. Literature, screenwriting, the creative process, pop culture, and more. Available wherever you get your podcasts. Follow the show on Bluesky and Instagram.
Episodes
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Jul 25, 2012 • 1h 19min
Episode 90 — Christopher Beha
Christopher 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

Jul 22, 2012 • 1h 14min
Episode 89 — Jess Walter
Jess 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

Jul 18, 2012 • 1h 10min
Episode 88 — Christopher Narozny
Christopher 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

Jul 15, 2012 • 1h 10min
Episode 87 — Scott McClanahan
Scott 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

Jul 11, 2012 • 1h 11min
Episode 86 — Alexis Smith
Alexis 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

Jul 8, 2012 • 1h 10min
85. Seth Greenland
Seth 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. They have two grown children. ***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] 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

Jul 4, 2012 • 1h 8min
Episode 84 — Elizabeth Collins
Elizabeth 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

Jul 1, 2012 • 1h 10min
83. Joshua Henkin
Joshua 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 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 PatreonMerchwww.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

Jun 27, 2012 • 1h 14min
82. Jürgen Fauth
Jürgen 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@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

Jun 24, 2012 • 1h 23min
Episode 81 — Kate Christensen
Kate 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


