Otherppl with Brad Listi

Volume 108 of Brad & Mira For the Culture...Mira sees Digger, has strong feelings...Tyler gets a short king suit...Brad goes to New York City...Uncle Rico is on his flight...his teenage daughter goes to a live taping of SNL, bears witness to Shane Gillis...Angry Adam AWOL...having back surgery later this month...Shane Gillis just wants to stare at whores, y'all...Kelly Clarkson's futile attem...

Tananarive Due is the author of the novel Mazywood, available from Saga Press. It was the official September 2026 pick of the Otherppl Book Club. Tananarive Due is an American Book Award and NAACP Image Award­–winning author, who was an executive producer on Horror Noire: A History of Black Horror for Shudder and teaches Afrofuturism and Black Horror at UCLA. She and her husband, sc...

Today on the program, a trip into the archive and a return to Episode 677, my conversation with Anne Helen Petersen. We were talking about her book Can't Even: How Millennials Became the Burnout Generation (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt). Air date: October 21, 2020. Anne Helen Petersen received her PhD in media studies from the University of Texas, where she studied the history of the gossip industry....

Volume 107 of Brad & Mira For the Culture..Mira recaps her return to the motherland...she did not get diarrhea...the soothing sounds of Siri and Kaya...Brad tries to teach his son how to compliment women...Angry Adam's cortisol level recedes in the wilds of Idaho...Keep Tom Cruise Weird...Digger does a nosedive at the box office...Diddy gets sent to solitary again...Taylor Swift has another n...

Sam Tallent is the author of the novel Brut, a literary thriller available from Random House. Tallent is a comedian, novelist, and host of the Chubby Behemoth podcast. For the last decade, he has performed more than forty-five weekends per year in North America, Asia, Australia, and Europe. Sam has two comedy specials: Waiting For Death to Claim Us and The Toad’s Mora...

Today on the program, a trip into the archive and a return to Episode 748, my conversation with Robin McLean. We were talking about her debut novel Pity the Beast, available from And Other Stories. Air date: December 15, 2021. Robin McLean worked as a lawyer and then a potter in the woods of Alaska before turning to writing. Her debut novel Pity the Beast was chosen in multiple Best Book...

Téa Obreht reads from her new novel Sunrise, available from Random House. Obreht is the internationally bestselling author of The Tiger’s Wife, Inland and The Morningside. Her novels have won the Orange Prize for Fiction, been a finalist for the National Book Award, won the Southwest Book Award, and won for the Dylan Thomas Prize. Her work has appeared in Th...

A new Craftwork conversation with Brendan O'Meara, author of the biography The Front Runner: The Life of Steve Prefontaine, available from Mariner Books. The paperback edition will be available on November 2. O’Meara is the founder and host of the Creative Nonfiction podcast. As a sportswriter, he’s covered a wide swath of events including the Kentucky Derby, Preakness Stakes,...

Roshan Sethi is the author of the debut novel The Simp, available from Simon & Schuster. Sethi is a writer, director, and practicing oncologist. He is the cocreator of The Resident, which ran for six seasons on Fox. His directorial debut, 7 Days, won the Independent Spirit Award for best first feature. He subsequently directed World’s Best for Disney+ and cowrote the abort...

Today on the program, a trip into the archive and a return to Episode 62, my conversation with Heidi Julavits. We were talking about her novel The Vanishers (Doubleday), winner of the PEN New England Fiction Award. Air date: April 18, 2012. Heidi Julavits is the author of The Folded Clock: A Diary and four novels. She is an associate professor at Columbia University and the recipient of a Guggenhe...

⁠Roshan Sethi⁠ reads from his debut novel ⁠The Simp⁠, available from Simon & Schuster. Sethi is a writer, director, and practicing oncologist. He is the cocreator of The Resident, which ran for six seasons on Fox. His directorial debut, 7 Days, won the Independent Spirit Award for best first feature. He subsequently directed World’s Best for Disney+ and cowrote t...

Volume 106 of Brad & Mira For the Culture..Mira prepares for a return to the motherland...Mira's dad refuses to use soap...Brad's no good very bad terrible morning...Siri and Kaya weigh in on Spirit's penis...Ed Sheeran cries onstage...Orland Bloom and the Mara sisters have a threesome in the new Werner Herzog film...Is Channing Tatum running a burner account?...Detroit woman gets lost postmo...

Emily St. John Mandel is the author of the novel Exit Party, available from Knopf. Mandel is the author of six novels, most recently Sea of Tranquility, which has been translated into 25 languages and was selected by President Barack Obama as one of his favorite books of 2022. Her previous novels include The Glass Hotel, which was also on Obama’s list, was shortlisted for the S...

Today on the program, a trip into the archive and a return to Episode 396, my conversation with Margaret Malone. We were talking about her debut story collection, People Like You (Atelier 26 Books). It was a finalist for the PEN / Hemingway Award for First Fiction, and it won the 2016 Balcones Fiction Prize.   Air date: January 13, 2016. A recent MacDowell Fellow, Margaret's writing has appea...

Vol. 19 of Story Time, featuring an author reading aloud from his/her/their work. In this episode, Ben Loory reads two stories. The first story is called 'The Poet,' from his debut collection entitled Stories for Nighttime and Some for the Day. And the second story is called 'The Squid Who Fell in Love with the Sun,' from his second collection, Tales of Falling and Flying. Both books are avai...

Volume 105 of Brad & Mira For the Culture...Mira's mother-in-law texts her about a bloody dog penis whose penis was bloody...the podcast celebrates 15 years of quality podcasting...Brad accuses Mira of not showing enough support...Siri and Kaya send word from Australia...Bob Mackie RIP...Mira envies Mitch McConnell's drug cocktail...recapping the Emmy Awards...Brad's Fashion Corner...Macklemo...

Salman Rushdie and Rachel Eliza Griffiths join me to talk about Knife: The Attempted Murder of Salman Rushdie, the new documentary directed by Academy Award–winning filmmaker Alex Gibney. Inspired by Rushdie’s 2024 memoir Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder, the film revisits the August 2022 attack that nearly killed him and follows his physical and emotional recovery. At its ce...

In this special anniversary episode, Brad reflects on 15 years of Otherppl, more than 1,000 conversations with writers, and what the experience has taught him about writing, publishing, ambition, failure, persistence, and the creative life. He also looks back at how the show began, what it has become, and why long-form conversation still matters. *** ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠...

Today on the program, a trip into the archive and a return to Episode 423, my conversation with Chuck Klosterman. We were talking about his book But What If We’re Wrong: Thinking About the Present As If It Were the Past (Blue Rider Press) Air date: July 20, 2016 Klosterman is the bestselling author of nine nonfiction books (including Football; X; The Nineties; and Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs), two...

Vol. 18 of Story Time, featuring an author reading aloud from her work. In this episode, Mark Leidner reads from his new poetry collection, Elegy for Pangaea (Fonograf Editions). Leidner's previous poetry collections are Returning the Sword to the Stone (Fonograf Editions, 2021), Beauty Was the Case that They Gave Me (Factory Hollow Press, 2011), and The Angel in the...

Volume 104 of Brad & Mira For the Culture...Mira weighs in on the death of Gloria Steinem...Florida weather in LA...Mira professes her love for M. Night Shyamalan...is Brad obsessed with Phish?....Mira telephones three different McDonald's restaurants...Brad prepares for the 15th anniversary of his podcasting career...gets huge on Instagram by not talking...Increasingly-Angry Craig from East...

Mark Leidner is the author of the poetry collection Elegy for Pangaea, available from Fonograf Editions. Leidner's previous poetry collections are Returning the Sword to the Stone (Fonograf Editions, 2021), Beauty Was the Case that They Gave Me (Factory Hollow Press, 2011), and The Angel in the Dream of Our Hangover (Sator/Two Dollar Radio, 2011). He also wrote the st...

Today on the program, a trip into the archive and a return to Episode 426, my conversation with Jonathan Franzen. We were talking about his novel Purity, available in trade paperback from Picador. Air date: August 10, 2016 Jonathan Franzen is the author of five novels, including The Corrections, Freedom, and Crossroads, and five works of nonfiction, including Farther Away ...

Vol. 17 of Story Time, featuring an author reading aloud from her work. In this episode, Roberta Recchia reads from her bestselling debut novel All That Is Left of Life (Scribner). Born in Rome in 1972, Roberta Rossella Recchia lived for a time in Lille, France, where she earned a master’s degree in international relations and cultures. She worked for ten years for a big company and...

Volume 103 of Brad & Mira For the Culture...Mira issues a correction after spreading misinformation about Johnny Carson and Porter Wagoner...Mira gets a new tattoo...the Otherppl podcast is about to turn 15....Brad lands a huge interview...Angry Adam is AWOL...the Tom Cruise nostalgia tour continues...Days of Thunder 2 is in the works...Anne Hathaway to co-star...Randy Quaid weighs in...Hunte...