Otherppl with Brad Listi

Shauna Barbosa is the author of the poetry collection CAPE VERDEAN BLUES (University of Pittsburgh Press). Barbosa's poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Boulevard, Lit Hub, Lenny Letter, Awl, Colorado Review, Virginia Quarterly Review, Foundry, Wildness, The Atlas Review, PANK, and others. She is a Disquiet International Luso-American fellow and received her MFA from Bennington College in Ve...

Jami Attenberg is the bestselling author of the novel ALL GROWN UP, available in trade paperback from Mariner Books. Attenberg has written about sex, technology, design, books, television, and urban life for The New York Times Magazine, The Wall Street Journal, The Guardian, Lenny Letter and others. Her other books include INSTANT LOVE, THE KEPT MAN, THE MELTING SEASON, THE MIDDLESTEINS, and SAINT...

Will Mackin is the author of the story collection BRING OUT THE DOG, available from Random House. Mackin is a veteran of the U.S. Navy His work has appeared in The New Yorker, GQ, and The New York Times Magazine. His story “Kattekoppen” was selected by Jennifer Egan for inclusion in The Best American Short Stories 2014, and his essay about being an extra on Breaking Bad, published in GQ, was nomin...

Brad Listi talks with Lynne Tillman, author of the novel MEN AND APPARITIONS, available from Soft Skull Press. Her novels include Haunted Houses; Motion Sickness; Cast in Doubt; No Lease on Life, a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award; and American Genius, A Comedy. Her nonfiction books include The Velvet Years: Warhol’s Factory 1965–1967; and What Would Lynne Tillman Do?, a finalis...

Troy James Weaver is the author of the novel TEMPORAL, available from Disorder Press. Weaver is the author of three other books—WITCHITA STORIES, MARIGOLD, and VISIONS. He lives in Kansas, where he works as a florist.  *** Otherppl with Brad Listi is a weekly literary podcast featuring in-depth interviews with today's leading writers. Available where podcasts are available: Apple Podcasts, Google...

Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi is the author of the novel CALL ME ZEBRA (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt). Oloomi is the winner of a 2015 Whiting Writers' Award, a National Book Foundation "5 Under 35" honoree, the recipient of a MacDowell Fellowship, and a Fulbright Fellowship in Fiction to Catalonia, Spain. She currently teaches in the M.F.A. Program in Creative Writing at the University of Notre Dame a...

Elif Batuman is the author of the bestselling debut novel THE IDIOT, available in trade paperback from Penguin. Batuman's first book, THE POSSESSED (2010), a collection of comic interconnected essays about the pursuit of Russian literature, was a finalist for a National Book Critics Circle Award. She has been a staff writer for The New Yorker magazine since 2010 and holds a PhD in comparative (mos...

Willy Vlautin is the author of the novel DON'T SKIP OUT ON ME (Harper Perennial). It is the official February pick of The Nervous Breakdown Book Club. Born and raised in Reno, Nevada, Vlautin Vlautin has published four other novels: THE MOTEL LIFE (2007), NORTHLINE (2008), LEAN ON PETE (2010), and THE FREE (2014). Otherppl with Brad Listi is a free weekly podcast featuring in-depth conversations w...

Rachel Lyon is the author of the debut novel SELF-PORTRAIT WITH BOY (Scribner). Lyon teaches for the Sackett Street Writers Workshop, Catapult, Slice, and elsewhere, and offers private writing coaching. Most weeks she sends out a free writing/thinking prompts newsletter. She is a cofounder of the monthly reading series Ditmas Lit. Otherppl with Brad Listi is a free weekly podcast featuring in-dept...

Liska Jacobs is the author of the debut novel CATALINA, available from MCD/FSG. Jacobs holds an MFA from the University of California, Riverside. Her essays and short fiction have appeared in The Rumpus, Los Angeles Review of Books, Literary Hub, The Millions, and The Hairpin, among other publications. Otherppl with Brad Listi is a free weekly podcast featuring in-depth interviews with today's lea...

Debbie Graber is the author of KEVIN KRAMER STARTS ON MONDAY, available now from Unnamed Press. Graber's fiction has appeared in Harpers, Zyzzyva, Hobart, The Nervous Breakdown and Word Riot, among other journals. She received an MFA from the University of California, Riverside. Otherppl with Brad Listi is a free weekly podcast featuring in-depth interviews with today's leading writers.  *** Other...

Tim Wirkus is the author of the novel THE INFINITE FUTURE (Penguin Press). Wirkus is the author of one previous novel, CITY OF BRICK AND SHADOW (Tyrus Books, 2014), which was a finalist for the Shamus Award and the winner of the Association for Mormon Letters Best Novel Award. He’s currently a doctoral candidate in the University of Southern California’s Creative Writing and Literature Program. **...

Clay Byars is the author of the memoir WILL & I, available from FSG Originals. Byars attended The School of Letters at Sewanee, Tennessee. His work has appeared in the Paris Review, the Oxford American, and Narrative Magazine, where he serves as a consulting editor. He lives on a farm in Alabama.  *** Otherppl with Brad Listi is a weekly literary podcast featuring in-depth interviews with today's...

Brad Listi talks with Lauren Haldeman, author of the poetry collection INSTEAD OF DYING (Center for Literary Publishing at Colorado State University). It is the winner of the Colorado Prize for Poetry. Haldeman is a graduate of the Iowa Writers Workshop. Her other books include CALENDAY (Rescue Press, 2014) and THE ECCENTRICITY IS ZERO (Digraph Press, 2014). A finalist for the Walt Whitman Award a...

Brad Listi, Adam Greenfield, and Gene Morgan gather in the studio to reflect on 2017 and eat some homemade bread, trying hard to end the year on a high note. Adam is the author of the novel CIRCA, due out in August 2018, and Gene is the founder and CEO of the literary site HTMLGiant. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Brad Listi talks with Daniel A. Hoyt, author of the novel THIS BOOK IS NOT FOR YOU, available from Dzanc Books. It is the recipient of the Dzanc Fiction Prize and the official December pick of The Nervous Breakdown Book Club. Hoyt's first short story collection, THEN WE SAW THE FLAMES, won the 2008 Juniper Prize for Fiction. He teaches creative writing, mainly fiction, and lit classes, at Kansas S...

Brad Listi talks with Patty Schemel and Erin Hosier. Schemel was the drummer for the rock band Hole from 1992-98 and has just published a memoir called HIT SO HARD, available now from Da Capo Press. Hosier is a literary agent at Dunow, Carlson, and Lerner; she helped shepherd the book to publication. (Full disclosure: She is also Brad Listi's literary agent.) Learn more about your ad choices. Visi...

Brad Listi talks with author Bud Smith about his new memoir WORK, available from Civil Coping Mechanisms. Smith is a writer from New Jersey who also works heavy construction. His other books include DUST BUNNY CITY (Disorder Press), F250 (Piscataway House), TOLLBOOTH (Piscataway House), EVERYTHING NEON (Marginalia), OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT (Unknown Press), and CALM FACE (House of Vlad). This is Bud...

Brad Listi talks with Ivy Pochoda, author of the novel WONDER VALLEY (Ecco Press). Her previous books include THE ART OF DISAPPEARING and the critically acclaimed VISITATION STREET (Ecco / Dennis Lehane Books), which was chosen as an Amazon Best Book of the Month, Amazon Best Book of 2013, and a Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers selection. A former world ranked squash player, Pochoda is or...

Brad Listi talks with Panio Gianopoulos, author of the story collection HOW TO GET INTO OUR HOUSE AND WHERE WE KEEP THE MONEY, available now from Four Way Books. Gianopoulos is the author of the novella A FAMILIAR BEAST. His stories, essays, and poetry have appeared in Tin House, Northwest Review, Salon, The Rattling Wall, Chicago Quarterly Review, Big Fiction, The Brooklyn Rail, Catamaran Literar...

Brad Listi talks with Emily Geminder, author of DEAD GIRLS AND OTHER STORIES, winner of the Dzanc Books Short Story Prize. Geminder's work has appeared or is forthcoming in American Short Fiction, Conjunctions, Kenyon Review, New England Review, Prairie Schooner, Tin House, and elsewhere. The recipient of an AWP Intro Journals Award, a Glenna Luschei Prairie Schooner Award, and a Pushcart Special...

Brad Listi talks with Elizabeth Ellen, author of the story collection SAUL STORIES (Short Flight / Long Drive Books). Earlier this year, she published a novel called PERSONA, and her poetry collection, ELIZABETH ELLEN, is coming soon. Ellen's other books include "Before You She Was a Pit Bull" (Future Tense), "Sixteen Miles Outside of Phoenix" (Rose Metal Press) and "Fast Machine" (Short Flight/Lo...

Brad Listi talks with Carmen Maria Machado, author of the story collection HER BODY AND OTHER PARTIES, available now from Graywolf Press. It is a finalist for the 2017 National Book Award and the Kirkus Prize, and the winner of the Bard Fiction Prize. Her memoir "House in Indiana" is forthcoming in 2019 from Graywolf Press. Machado holds an MFA from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and lives in Philadel...

Brad Listi talks with Jarret Middleton, author of the debut novel DARKANSAS, available now from Dzanc Books. It is the official November selection of The Nervous Breakdown Book Club. Middleton's other book is a novella entitled "An Dantomine Eerly." He was the founding editor of Dark Coast Press and the classics library Pharos Editions, an imprint of Counterpoint/Soft Skull Press. His fiction, ess...

Brad Listi talks with Will Dowd, author of the essay collection AREAS OF FOG, due out from Etruscan Press on November 14, 2017. Dowd is a writer and artist from the Boston area. His work has appeared in Post Road Magazine, The Rialto, NPR.org, and elsewhere. Otherppl with Brad Listi is a weekly podcast featuring in-depth interviews with today's leading writers. All episodes free. Learn more about...