Otherppl With Brad Listi

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 Novel The Misfit's Manifesto Allegories of Violence The Small Backs of Children Yuknavitch 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 Merch www.otherppl.com @otherppl Instagram  Email the show: letters [at] otherppl [dot] com The podcast is a proud affiliate partner of B

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 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

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

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

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

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