Otherppl With Brad Listi

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

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

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] com The podcast is a proud affiliate partner of Bookshop, working to support local, independent bookstores.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit meg

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

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 Patreon Merch www.otherppl.com @otherppl Instagram  Email the show: letters [at] otherppl [dot] com Get 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

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 @otherppl Instagram Email the show: letters [at] otherppl [dot] com 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

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

Today'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

Elizabeth 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

Miles 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.otherppl.com @otherppl Instagram Email the show: letters [at] otherppl [dot] com 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

Ron 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 Nothing Cold Can Stay Something Rich and Strange The World Made Straight Chemistry and Other Stories Saints at the River One Foot in Eden The Night the New Jesus Fell to Earth Burning Bright *** Otherppl with Brad Listi is a weekly literary podcast featuring in-depth conversations with today's leading writers. Launched in 2011. Books. Literature. Writing. Publishing. Authors. Screenwriters. Etc. Support the show on Patreon: http://www.patreon.com/otherpplpod Merch: https://cottonbureau.com/products/otherppl-podcast-o

Esi 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

Jerry 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. Publishing. Authors. Screenwriters. Life. Death. Etc. Support the show on Merch www.otherppl.com @otherppl Instagram  Email the show: letters [at] otherppl [dot] com Get 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

Jim 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

Elna 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

Edgar 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 @otherppl Instagram Email the show: letters [at] otherppl [dot] com 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

Ben 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 feature film directed by three-time Oscar winner Ang Lee. Fountain's work has been translated into over twenty languages. His series of essays published in The Guardian on the 2016 U.S. presidential election was subsequently nominated by the editors of The Guardian for the Pulitzer Prize in Commentary. He lives in Dallas. *** 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. Li

Emily 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

Etgar 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

David 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 also co-created and hosted two seasons of the television series "Going Deep with David Rees," on NatGeo. *** Otherppl with Brad Listi is a weekly literary podcast featuring in-depth conversations with today's leading writers. Launched in 2011. Books. Literature. Writing. Publishing. Authors. Screenwriters. Etc. Support the show on Patreon / get merch @otherppl Instagram Email the show: letters [at] otherppl [dot] com The podcast is a proud affiliate partner of Bookshop, working to support local, independent bookstores. Lear