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Otherppl is a books and culture podcast hosted by author Brad Listi. Featuring candid, in-depth conversations with acclaimed and emerging authors, the show explores literature, writing, publishing, the creative process, screenwriting and pop culture. More than 1,000 interviews since 2011. New episodes weekly.
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Michael Mann Down
5 november 2026 · 1 uur 32 min
Volume 110 of Brad & Mira For the Culture...Brad takes a red eye to Tampa...Mira gets Covid at a drone metal show in Joshua Tree...recording on Election Day, smoking the hopium...the Brewers win the World Series...Brad's inner child rejoices...The Roo Review debuts...Martha Stewart goes homeless for Halloween...the Timberlake docuseries absolutely nobody asked for...Britney, join our family...Will Smith is a wife guy...goes leading man to deeply strange...Jada issues death threats...Michael Jackson or Willy Wonka?...Mira would have sex with an Oompa Loompa?...Michael Mann shoots himself in the leg...& more... Lees meer
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Available where podcasts are available: Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube, etc.
Get How to Write a Novel, the debut audio course from DeepDive. 50+ hours of never-before-heard insight, inspiration, and instruction from dozens of today's most celebrated contemporary authors.
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1061. Alexander Maksik
3 november 2026 · 1 uur 12 min
Alexander Maksik is the author of the novel Passengers, now available from Europa Editions. It has been longlisted for the 2026 National Book Award for Fiction. Lees meer
Maksik is the author of You Deserve Nothing, a New York Times and IndieBound bestseller; A Marker to Measure Drift, which was a New York Times Notable Book, as well as a finalist for the William Saroyan Prize and Le Prix du Meilleur Livre Étranger, and the basis of the 2023 motion picture Drift; Shelter in Place, named one of the best books of the year by the Guardian and the San Francisco Chronicle; and The Long Corner, a New York Times Book Review Editor's Choice, and named one of the best books of the year by The Australian. Maksik is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Pushcart Prize and The Sewanee Review's Andrew Lytle Prize. His books have been translated into a dozen languages.
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Otherppl with Brad Listi is a weekly podcast featuring in-depth interviews with today's leading writers.
Available where podcasts are available: Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube, etc.
Get How to Write a Novel, the debut audio course from DeepDive. 50+ hours of never-before-heard insight, inspiration, and instruction from dozens of today's most celebrated contemporary authors.
Subscribe to Brad's email newsletter…
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REPLAY: Tao Lin on Psychedelics, Attention, and Change
1 november 2026 · 1 uur 28 min
Today on the program, a trip into the archive and a return to Episode 521, my conversation with Tao Lin, author of Trip: Psychedelics, Attention, and Change (Vintage). Lees meer
Air date: May 20, 2018.
Tao Lin is the author of the novels Leave Society and Taipei, the novella Shoplifting from American Apparel, and other books. His writing has appeared in The New York Times Book Review, Harper's Magazine, Granta, The Paris Review, NOON, and elsewhere. He was born in Virginia, has taught in Sarah Lawrence College’s MFA program, and is the founder and editor of Muumuu House.
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Otherppl with Brad Listi is a weekly podcast featuring in-depth interviews with today's leading writers.
Available where podcasts are available: Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube, etc.
Get How to Write a Novel, the debut audio course from DeepDive. 50+ hours of never-before-heard insight, inspiration, and instruction from dozens of today's most celebrated contemporary authors.
Subscribe to Brad's email newsletter.
Support the show on Patreon
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REPLAY: Frederick Barthelme on Family, Fiction, and American Decline
31 oktober 2026 · 1 uur 14 min
Today on the program, a trip into the archive and a return to Episode 327, my conversation with Frederick Barthelme, author of the novel There Must Be Some Mistake (Little, Brown). Lees meer
Air date: November 5, 2014.
Barthelme studied fiction with John Barth at the Johns Hopkins Writing Seminars, from which he received his Master of Arts degree. From 1977 to 2010 he taught fiction writing and directed the Center for Writers at the University of Southern Mississippi. He won numerous awards including individual grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, and diverse grants and awards as editor of Mississippi Review and Mississippi Review Online, which he founded and edited. He is the author of sixteen books of fiction and nonfiction and has been published in GQ, Fiction, Kansas Quarterly, Epoch, Ploughshares, Playboy, Esquire, TriQuarterly, NorthAmerican Review, The New York Times, Frank Magazine, The Southern Review, the Boston Globe Magazine, and elsewhere. His work has been translated into nine languages. His memoir, Double Down: Reflections onGambling and Loss, co-authored with his brother Steven, was a New York Times Notable Book of the Year. The same honor was awarded to his collection, The Law of Averages. His novel Elroy Nights was also a New York Times Notable Book of the Year and was a 2004 PEN/Faulkner Award finalist. In 2010 he won the Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters Award for Fiction and is presently editor and publisher of the online literary publication New World Writing (previously Blip Magazine).
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Otherppl with Brad Listi is a weekly podcast featuring in-depth interviews with today's leading writers.
Available where podcasts are available: Apple Podcasts, …
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1060. Emily Ogden
27 oktober 2026 · 1 uur 13 min
Emily Ogden is the author of Darkness Becomes Bright: On the Brief Life and Immortal Art of Edgar Allan Poe (Viking). It is the official October pick of the Otherppl Book Club. Lees meer
Ogden's other books include On Not Knowing: How to Love and Other Essays and Credulity: A Cultural History of US Mesmerism. The recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Whiting Creative Nonfiction Grant, and a Mellon Fellowship in the Columbia Society of Fellows, she is a professor of English at the University of Virginia.
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Otherppl with Brad Listi is a weekly podcast featuring in-depth interviews with today's leading writers.
Available where podcasts are available: Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube, etc.
Get How to Write a Novel, the debut audio course from DeepDive. 50+ hours of never-before-heard insight, inspiration, and instruction from dozens of today's most celebrated contemporary authors.
Subscribe to Brad's email newsletter.
Support the show on Patreon
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REPLAY: Michael Schumacher on Allen Ginsberg, Poetry, and the Beat Generation
25 oktober 2026 · 1 uur 57 min
Today on the program, a trip into the archive and a return to Episode 684, my conversation with the late Michael Schumacher, author of Dharma Lion (University of Minnesota Press), a biography of the 20th century American poet Allen Ginsberg. Michael Schumacher died on December 29, 2025 at age 75. Lees meer
Air date: December 9, 2020.
Schumacher (1950–2025) wrote extensively about Allen Ginsberg and the Beat Generation. His articles, reviews, and essays have appeared in newspapers and magazines across the country. He was editor of Family Business,a collection of letters between Allen and Louis Ginsberg, and The Essential Ginsberg, a volume of the best of Ginsberg’s poems, essays, songs, letters, journal entries, interviews, and photographs.
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Otherppl with Brad Listi is a weekly podcast featuring in-depth interviews with today's leading writers.
Available where podcasts are available: Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube, etc.
Get How to Write a Novel, the debut audio course from DeepDive. 50+ hours of never-before-heard insight, inspiration, and instruction from dozens of today's most celebrated contemporary authors.
Subscribe to Brad's email newsletter.
Support the show on Patreon…
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Are Too Many Books Being Published?
24 oktober 2026 · 19 min
A brief reflection on the overwhelming number of books being published, the difficulty authors face finding readers, and whether traditional publishers should simply publish fewer books. Plus: a plea for better pitching etiquette, the problem with turning fan mail into a transaction, and why I no longer wants to publish anything unless it feels urgent, deeply personal, and worth the risk. Lees meer
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Otherppl with Brad Listi is a weekly podcast featuring in-depth interviews with today's leading writers.
Available where podcasts are available: Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube, etc.
Get How to Write a Novel, the debut audio course from DeepDive. 50+ hours of never-before-heard insight, inspiration, and instruction from dozens of today's most celebrated contemporary authors.
Subscribe to Brad's email newsletter.
Support the show on Patreon
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You Can See Everything Except Bigfoot
22 oktober 2026 · 1 uur 30 min
Volume 109 of Brad & Mira For the Culture...Mira sees You Can See Everything and The Devils...Happy Birthday, Tyler!....Siri and Kaya send gifts...Brad witnesses the Brewers win the pennant...experiences childlike joy for the first time in decades...did O.J. have a murder buddy?...Trump lusts after man's ass...Katie Zacharia, we hardly knew ya....Dudus gives Diddy a beatdown...new Bigfoot film casts aspersions upon old Bigfoot film...Jenny McCarthy remembers her time at Tom and Katie's wedding...& more... Lees meer
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Otherppl with Brad Listi is a weekly podcast featuring in-depth interviews with today's leading writers.
Available where podcasts are available: Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube, etc.
Get How to Write a Novel, the debut audio course from DeepDive. 50+ hours of never-before-heard insight, inspiration, and instruction from dozens of today's most celebrated contemporary authors.
Subscribe to Brad's email newsletter.
Support the show on Patreon
Merch
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1059. Diane Williams
20 oktober 2026 · 1 uur 3 min
Diane Williams is the author of the story collection I Liked Rex (New York Review Books). Lees meer
Williams is the author of several collections of short fiction and the founder and editor of the literary annual NOON. An omnibus of her work, The Collected Stories of Diane Williams, was published in 2018. I Liked Rex is her twelfth book of fiction. The NOON archive, as well as Williams's personal literary archive, was acquired in 2014 by the Lilly Library. She lives in New York City.
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Otherppl with Brad Listi is a weekly podcast featuring in-depth interviews with today's leading writers.
Available where podcasts are available: Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube, etc.
Get How to Write a Novel, the debut audio course from DeepDive. 50+ hours of never-before-heard insight, inspiration, and instruction from dozens of today's most celebrated contemporary authors.
Subscribe to Brad's email newsletter.
Support the show on Patreon
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REPLAY: Steve Anwyll on Montreal, Poverty, and Making Art Anyway
18 oktober 2026 · 1 uur 33 min
Today on the program, a trip into the archive and a return to Episode 570, my conversation with Steve Anwyll, author of the debut novel Welfare (Tyrant Books). Lees meer
Air date: March 13, 2019.
Steve Anwyll's short stories have appeared in Forevermag, Fence, Hobart and others.
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Otherppl with Brad Listi is a weekly podcast featuring in-depth interviews with today's leading writers.
Available where podcasts are available: Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube, etc.
Get How to Write a Novel, the debut audio course from DeepDive. 50+ hours of never-before-heard insight, inspiration, and instruction from dozens of today's most celebrated contemporary authors.
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