Otherppl with Brad Listi

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...

Chloe Caldwell is the author of the debut essay collection Legs Get Led Astray, now available from Future Tense Books. Caldwell is the author of three books: the essay collection I’ll Tell You in Person (Coffee House/Emily Books, 2016), and the critically acclaimed novella, Women (SF/LD 2014 and Harper Collins UK, 2017). Her memoir, The Red Zone: A Love Story will publish with Soft Skull Press in...

Kris D'Agostino is the author of the debut novel The Sleepy Hollow Family Almanac (Algonquin). He is also the author of the novel The Antiques. *** 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....

Matt Bell is the author of several chapbooks, a fiction collection called How They Were Found, and his most recent book is a novella called Cataclysm Baby, now available from Mud Luscious Press. Support indie bookstores! Shop here. Bell’s next novel, Appleseed, is forthcoming from Custom House in July 2021. His craft book Refuse to Be Done, a guide to novel writing, rewriting, and revision, will f...

Noah Hawley is the guest.  He's the author of several books, the most recent of which is a novel called The Good Father, now available from Doubleday.  He's also an accomplished writer and producer in film and television.  He wrote ... Continue reading → Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

James Bernard Frost is the guest. He's the author of the novel A Very Minor Prophet, now available from Hawthorne Books. Frost is also the author of the novel World Leader Pretend, and the award-winning travel guide The Artichoke Trail. His fiction and nonfiction has been published in many places, including the San Francisco Examiner, the San Francisco Bay Guardian, and Wired. He lives in Oregon w...

Heidi Julavits is today's guest.  She's the author of four books, the most recent of which is a novel called The Vanishers, now available from Doubleday. And she's also the co-editor of The Believer magazine. Here's what The New York ... Continue reading → Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Rosecrans Baldwin is a co-founder of The Morning News and the author of a memoir called Paris, I Love You But You're Bringing Me Down (FSG). Baldwin is also the author of the novel The Last Kid Left. His next book, Everything Now, is forthcoming June 2021 from MCD x FSG (Farrar, Straus and Giroux). As a magazine writer, Baldwin is a frequent contributor to GQ. Other titles include Esquire, Men’s J...

Kris Saknussemm is the guest.  His latest novel, Reverend America, is now available from Dark Coast Press.  And the soundtrack to the book is now available at iTunes. From Booklist: Once upon a time, Mathias Gaspenny was a child preacher ... Continue reading → Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Amelia Gray is the guest.  She's the author of three works of fiction, the most recent of which is a novel called Threats, now available from Farrar, Straus, & Giroux. Doug Dorst, author of The Surf Guru, has this to ... Continue reading → Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Melissa Broder is the guest.  Her new poetry collection, entitled Meat Heart, is now available from Publishing Genius Press.  And by day she is the publicity manager for Penguin Group. Says Publishers Weekly: Broder’s second collection cranks up the weird ... Continue reading → Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Hari Kunzru is the guest.  He's the author of four books, the most recent of which is a novel called Gods Without Men, now available from Knopf. David Mitchell, author of Cloud Atlas, calls it a "beautifully written echo chamber ... Continue reading → Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jessica Keener is today's guest.  Her debut novel, Night Swim, is now available from Fiction Studio Books. Pulitzer Prize-winner Jennifer Egan says: Jessica Keener steps boldly into the terrain of Eugene O'Neill, conjuring up the pathologies and quirks of a ... Continue reading → Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Catherine Chung is the guest.  Her debut novel, Forgotten Country, is now available from Riverhead Books. Booklist, in a starred review, raves: Chung’s superb debut examines the twin hearts of cruelty and compassion between sisters in particular and family in ... Continue reading → Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jeff Ragsdale is the guest.  He's the co-author, along with David Shields and Michael Logan, of Jeff, One Lonely Guy. Here's what Bret Easton Ellis, author of American Psycho, has to say about it: You can either make fun of ... Continue reading → Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Sarah Manguso is today's guest.  She's the author of the new book The Guardians: An Elegy, now available from Farrar, Straus, & Giroux. Megan O'Grady, writing for Vogue, says: Shortly after returning home from a fellowship year in Rome, poet ... Continue reading → Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Lysley Tenorio is the guest.  A winner of the Whiting Writer's Award and a former Stegner Fellow at Stanford University, he is the author of a debut story collection called Monstress, now available from Ecco. Raves Chang-Rae Lee, New York ... Continue reading → Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Lauren Groff is the guest.  She's the author of the novel The Monsters of Templeton, the story collection Delicate Edible Birds, and most recently, a novel called Arcadia, which has received starred reviews from Library Journal, Publishers Weekly, Kirkus, and ... Continue reading → Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Maud Newton is the guest.  One of the web's most influential book bloggers.  She also reviews books and is a former attorney who now works as an editor and writer for (a legal publishing division of) Thomson Reuters. She has ... Continue reading → Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Joe Blair is the guest.  He's the author of the memoir By the Iowa Sea, now available from Scribner. Scott Spencer, author of Main in the Woods, raves: An intimate, startling memoir that honors and elevates our quotidian existence. With ... Continue reading → Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Ramona Ausubel is the guest.  Her debut novel, No One is Here Except All of Us, is now available in hardcover from Riverhead Press.  And her short story "Atria" was published in the April 4, 2011 issue of The New ... Continue reading → Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Ryan Boudinot is the guest.  He's the author of the new novel, Blueprints of the Afterlife, now available from Grove Press. John Schwartz, in a review for the New York Times, raves: A fierce literary imagination, building the kinds of ... Continue reading → Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Cheryl Strayed is the guest.  She's the author of the new memoir Wild, due out from Knopf on March 20, 2012.  And she's also Sugar, the popular advice columnist over at The Rumpus. Wild, which details Strayed's 1,100-mile solo hike ... Continue reading → Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Adam Wilson is the guest.  He's the author of the debut novel Flatscreen, now available from Harper Perennial. Raves Sam Lipsyte:  "Adam Wilson is a gutsy, funny, and often beautiful writer, and Flatscreen is one of the most hilarious and ... Continue reading → Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices