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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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What Does It Really Take to Make a Literary Podcast?
17 oktober 2026 · 28 min
What does it take to make a literary podcast—and what makes someone a good guest? In this episode, I share some thoughts on the labor behind every episode, the generosity and respect that make a great conversation possible, and why independent literary media needs more than good wishes to survive. If we want a thriving literary culture, we have to help build it—and support it. Lees meer
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Kelly Clarkson Wants to Buy Molly
15 oktober 2026 · 1 uur 6 min
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 attempts to buy Molly in Brooklyn...Selma Blair is a savage assassin who will bite you...Siri and Kaya demand clarification...& more... Lees meer
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1058. Tananarive Due
13 oktober 2026 · 1 uur 21 min
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. Lees meer
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, science fiction author Steven Barnes, cowrote the graphic novel The Keeper and an episode for Season 2 of The Twilight Zone for Paramount Plus and Monkeypaw Productions. Due is the author of several novels and two short story collections, Ghost Summer: Stories and The Wishing Pool and Other Stories. She is also coauthor of a civil rights memoir, Freedom in the Family: A Mother-Daughter Memoir of the Fight for Civil Rights (with her late mother, Patricia Stephens Due).
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REPLAY: Anne Helen Petersen on How Millennials Became the Burnout Generation
11 oktober 2026 · 1 uur 19 min
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). Lees meer
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. Today, she writes about the future of work, celebrity, burnout, and more at her newsletter, Culture Study.
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Bob De Niro Has 10 to 18 Dogs
8 oktober 2026 · 1 uur 24 min
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 new BFF...Woody Harrelson claims that Bob De Niro has 10 to 18 dogs...& more... Lees meer
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1057. Sam Tallent
6 oktober 2026 · 1 uur 22 min
Sam Tallent is the author of the novel Brut, a literary thriller available from Random House. Lees meer
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 Morale. He also has a travel show, Wide World, on YouTube. He lives in Detroit and cooks dinner for his wife every night.
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REPLAY: Robin McLean on Feminist Westerns, Cosmic Time, and Unconventional Living
4 oktober 2026 · 1 uur 54 min
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. Lees meer
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 Books of 2021 lists in outlets such as the Guardian, Wall Street Journaland White Review, while the American Booksellers Association chose it as an Indie Next pick. She teaches writing across the U.S. and internationally, and currently lives in the high desert West.
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Excerpt from 'Sunrise,' by Téa Obreht
3 oktober 2026 · 22 min
Téa Obreht reads from her new novel Sunrise, available from Random House. Lees meer
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 The Best American Short Stories, The New Yorker, The Atlantic, Harper’s, and Zoetrope: All-Story, among many other publications. Originally from the former Yugoslavia, Obreht now resides in Wyoming.
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How to Write a Biography
1 oktober 2026 · 1 uur 19 min
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. Lees meer
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, and Belmont Stakes, as well as several local and professional sports for Trail Runner Magazine, Bleacher Report and the Associated Press. His essays and craft pieces have appeared in Writer’s Digest, Brevity, Creative Nonfiction Magazine, and Longreads. He lives in Oregon.
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1056. Roshan Sethi
29 september 2026 · 1 uur 16 min
Roshan Sethi is the author of the debut novel The Simp, available from Simon & Schuster. Lees meer
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 abortion drama Call Jane, which premiered at Sundance in 2022. His third film as a director, A Nice Indian Boy, recently premiered at SXSW to rave reviews. His next film, The Surgeon, starring Michelle Yeoh and Martin Freeman, is forthcoming. The Simp is his debut novel.
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REPLAY: Heidi Julavits on Book Reviews, Psychics, & The Believer
27 september 2026 · 1 uur 12 min
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. Lees meer
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 Guggenheim Fellowship. She lives in New York City and Maine.
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Excerpt from 'The Simp,' by Roshan Sethi
26 september 2026 · 24 min
Roshan Sethi reads from his debut novel The Simp, available from Simon & Schuster. Lees meer
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 abortion drama Call Jane, which premiered at Sundance in 2022. His third film as a director, A Nice Indian Boy, recently premiered at SXSW to rave reviews. His next film, The Surgeon, starring Michelle Yeoh and Martin Freeman, is forthcoming. The Simp is his debut novel.
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Angry Adam's Kafkaesque Prison
24 september 2026 · 53 min
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 postmortem...Meryl Streep plays Jesus in Greta Gerwig's new Narnia movie... & more... Lees meer
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1055. Emily St. John Mandel
22 september 2026 · 1 uur 14 min
Emily St. John Mandel is the author of the novel Exit Party, available from Knopf. Lees meer
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 Scotiabank Giller Prize, and has been translated into 26 languages; and Station Eleven, which was a finalist for a National Book Award and the PEN/Faulkner Award, won the 2015 Arthur C. Clarke Award among other honors, has been translated into 36 languages, and aired as a limited series on HBO Max. She lives in New York City and Los Angeles.
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REPLAY: Margaret Malone on the Portland Writing Scene, Philosophy, Psychology, & Improv
20 september 2026 · 1 uur 10 min
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. Lees meer
Air date: January 13, 2016.
A recent MacDowell Fellow, Margaret's writing has appeared or is forthcoming from BOMB, The Missouri Review, The Rumpus, Oregon Humanities, Paper Darts, The Masters Review, and elsewhere. She is a graduate of Randolph’s M.F.A. program (the best in the country in her opinion), and Humboldt State University where she received a B.A. in Philosophy. She lives with her husband filmmaker Brian Padian and two children in Portland, Oregon.
Margaret has been a volunteer facilitator with the non-profit Write Around Portland and a co-host of the artist and literary gathering SHARE. She is the recipient of grants and fellowships from the Ford Family Foundation, the MacDowell Foundation, Oregon Arts Commission, the Regional Arts & Culture Council, and Literary Arts.
She hosts the interview series & radio show Bust the Canon on XRAY.FM and teaches creative writing through Stanford’s Distinguished Careers Institute and in Portland at Literary Arts.She also works with people individually through The Blue Wolf Writers, mentoring both established and emerging writers on their projects in person and online.
And, oh yeah, she started a Substack, too.
A former member of the Dangerous Writers, in her heart she will always spend Thursday nights at the northeast corner of the table in Tom Spanbauer’s basement.
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Ben Loory Reads 'The Poet' & 'The Squid Who Fell in Love with the Sun'
19 september 2026 · 27 min
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 available from Penguin. Lees meer
Loory’s fables and tales have appeared in over 100 magazines and journals, including The New Yorker, Tin House, The Sewanee Review, Electric Literature, BOMB Magazine, TriQuarterly, The Adroit Journal, The Kenyon Review, Fairy Tale Review, Wigleaf, and A Public Space. They have been heard on This American Life, Selected Shorts, and WORDTheatre, and been anthologized in Tiny Nightmares, The New Voices of Fantasy, xo Orpheus: 50 New Myths, andYear’s Best Weird Fiction Vol. 5. They have also been adapted to short film, live theater, chamber music, and dance, and been translated into many languages, including Arabic, Farsi, Japanese, Chinese, Turkish, Burmese, and Indonesian. Loory is also the author of a picture book for children, The Baseball Player and the Walrus (Dial Books for Young Readers 2015). He lives and teaches short story writing in Los Angeles.
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The Least Alive a Non-Dead Person Has Ever Looked
17 september 2026 · 1 uur 5 min
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...Macklemore opposes mass-slaughter of civilians, is booted from Ed Sheeran tour...Harry and Meghan's UK disaster is underway...Lady Gaga is a mama....no more Pitt kids...Don Jr.'s Russian oligarch wedding...Florida Man under the bed...Catherine Zeta Jones is upset about the term 'nepo baby'...Sydney Sweeney gets nude and talks sports... & more... Lees meer
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1054. Salman Rushdie & Rachel Eliza Griffiths
15 september 2026 · 1 uur 6 min
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 center is intimate, never-before-seen footage shot by Griffiths—Rushdie’s wife—during the aftermath; she is also credited as a cinematographer on the film. We talk about their decision to document that experience, the process of working with Gibney, and the complicated intersections of violence, survival, love, memory, and art. Knife begins its theatrical rollout September 17. Rushdie’s memoir, a 2024 National Book Award finalist, is available now from Random House. Lees meer
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 Tennessee makes his podcast debut..Angry Adam returns...the terrifying trailer for the new Elizabeth Holmes documentary... Trump claims he was in the rubble on 9/11...the curious case of the man who was duct-taped to an airplane seat, mid-flight...death and mayhem at Burning Man...Miley drops the 'Cyrus'...& more...
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15 Years of Otherppl: What 1,000+ Conversations with Writers Have Taught Me
14 september 2026 · 39 min
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. Lees meer
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REPLAY: Chuck Klosterman on Journalism, Expertise, & the Complexities of Progress
13 september 2026 · 1 uur 15 min
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) Lees meer
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 novels (Downtown Owl and The Visible Man), and the short story collection Raised in Captivity. He has written for The New York Times, The Washington Post, GQ (London), Esquire, Spin, The Guardian (London), The Believer, and ESPN. Klosterman served as the Ethicist for The New York Times Magazine for three years and was an original founder of the website Grantland with Bill Simmons. He was raised in rural North Dakota and now lives in Portland, Oregon.
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Poems from 'Elegy for Pangaea,' by Mark Leidner
12 september 2026 · 28 min
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). Lees meer
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 story collection Under the Sea (Tyrant Books, 2018), called "virtuosic" by the New York Times. One of the stories from that collection, "21 Extremely Bad Breakups," won the 2015 Newfound Prose Prize and in 2018 was adapted for the stage by Amy Rummenie of the Walking Shadow Theatre Company in Minneapolis. Mark also wrote and produced the 2019 feature-length sci-fi thriller Empathy, Inc., which earned rave reviews in Variety, The AV Club, and The Verge and is available on streaming platforms. Mark is a graduate of the University of Georgia, the Iowa Writers' Workshop, and the University of Massachusetts-Amherst. He grew up in Tifton, GA and now lives in northern California.
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Thanks for Not Talking
10 september 2026 · 1 uur 8 min
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 Tennessee makes his podcast debut..Angry Adam returns...the terrifying trailer for the new Elizabeth Holmes documentary... Trump claims he was in the rubble on 9/11...the curious case of the man who was duct-taped to an airplane seat, mid-flight...death and mayhem at Burning Man...Miley drops the 'Cyrus'...& more... Lees meer
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1053. Mark Leidner
8 september 2026 · 1 uur 13 min
Mark Leidner is the author of the poetry collection Elegy for Pangaea, available from Fonograf Editions. Lees meer
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 story collection Under the Sea (Tyrant Books, 2018), called "virtuosic" by the New York Times. One of the stories from that collection, "21 Extremely Bad Breakups," won the 2015 Newfound Prose Prize and in 2018 was adapted for the stage by Amy Rummenie of the Walking Shadow Theatre Company in Minneapolis. Mark also wrote and produced the 2019 feature-length sci-fi thriller Empathy, Inc., which earned rave reviews in Variety, The AV Club, and The Verge and is available on streaming platforms. Mark is a graduate of the University of Georgia, the Iowa Writers' Workshop, and the University of Massachusetts-Amherst. He grew up in Tifton, GA and now lives in northern California.
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REPLAY: Jonathan Franzen on Fame, Techno-Optimism, and David Foster Wallace
6 september 2026 · 1 uur 12 min
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. Lees meer
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 and The End of the End of the Earth, all published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. He lives in Santa Cruz, California.
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Excerpt from 'All That Is Left of Life,' by Roberta Recchia
5 september 2026 · 19 min
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). Lees meer
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 then quit office work to devote herself to teaching. She currently teaches English in a high school in Rome. She is passionate about film and literature, especially Russian and French. She lives with her chihuahua, Claudio, in a small town on the coast of Lazio, Italy.
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Is It Illegal to Smell Someone in California?
3 september 2026 · 1 uur 5 min
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...Hunter Biden appears on yet another podcast...reports that Joe visited him in his crack den in the presidential motorcade...met a homeless crack addict named Bicycles...the serial Butt Sniffer of California strikes again...Mira begrudgingly absolves Bill Maher and Mel Gibson...Dolly Parton's 100th birthday song...& more... Lees meer
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1052. Marlon James
1 september 2026 · 56 min
Marlon James is the author of the novel The Disappearers, now available from Riverhead Books. It has been longlisted for the 2026 Booker Prize. Lees meer
James is the Booker Prize-winning and New York Times bestselling author of A Brief History of Seven Killings; the bestselling and National Book Award finalist Black Leopard, Red Wolf; as well as the bestselling Moon Witch, Spider King; The Book of Night Women; and John Crow’s Devil. In addition to the Booker Prize, James’s novels have won the American Book Award, the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award, the Dayton Literary Peace Prize, the OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature, and the Los Angeles Times Ray Bradbury Prize for Science Fiction, and have been finalists for the National Book Critics Circle Award and the NAACP Image Award. The recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and named in 2019 one of Time magazine’s one hundred most influential people in the world, James lives in New York City.
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REPLAY: Terry Tempest Williams on Grief, Art, Absence, and Presence
30 augustus 2026 · 1 uur 14 min
Today on the program, a trip into the archive and a return to Episode 149, my conversation with Terry Tempest Williams. We were talking about her book When Women Were Birds: Fifty-Four Variations on Voice, available from Picador. Lees meer
Air date: February 17, 2013.
Terry Tempest Williams is the award-winning author of over twenty books of creative nonfiction, including the environmental classic, Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place. Among her other books are Leap; Red; The Open Space of Democracy; Finding Beauty in a Broken World; The Hour of Land; and Erosion: Essays of Undoing. Her work has been translated and anthologized worldwide. A recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and a Lannan Literary Award, she is a member of the American Academy of Arts & Letters and is currently writer-in-residence at the Harvard Divinity School. She divides her time between Cambridge, Massachusetts and Southeastern Utah.
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Excerpt from 'Earth 7,' by Deb Olin Unferth
29 augustus 2026 · 21 min
Vol. 16 of Story Time, featuring an author reading aloud from her work. In this episode, Deb Olin Unferth reads from her new novel, Earth 7, now available from Graywolf Press. Lees meer
Deb is the author of six books, including Barn 8 and Wait Till You See Me Dance. She has received a Guggenheim Fellowship and three Pushcart Prizes, and was a National Book Critics Circle Award finalist. Her work has appeared in Granta, Harper’s, McSweeney’s, and The Paris Review.
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Dolly Parton 4Ever
27 augustus 2026 · 1 uur 22 min
Volume 102 of Brad & Mira For the Culture...Dolly Parton, our Lord & Savior, has shuffled off her mortal coil...Mira laments not being able to cancel the podcast for mental health reasons...Mira ridicules Brad for not marketing his podcast until year 15...Brad's Instagram following explodes...Angry Adam is furious again...does James Blunt have micro-penis?...Harry & Meghan heading back to the UK...Clavicular's security detail brawls with college kids in Ft. Lauderdale...Sydney Sweeney is the next Tom Cruise...the Iranian government puts a bounty on Barron...& more... Lees meer
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1051. Roberta Recchia
25 augustus 2026 · 1 uur 12 min
Roberta Recchia is the author of the debut novel All That is Left of Life, available from Scribner. Translated by Antonella Lettieri. Lees meer
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 then quit office work to devote herself to teaching. She currently teaches English in a high school in Rome. She is passionate about film and literature, especially Russian and French. She lives with her chihuahua, Claudio, in a small town on the coast of Lazio, Italy.
Antonella Lettieri is a London-based translator with over ten years of experience working in English and Italian. She was the 2023 NCW Emerging Translator Mentee for Italian and was awarded first prize in the 2023 John Dryden Translation.
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REPLAY: Madelaine Lucas on Love, Longing, and the Art of the Sad, Horny Novel
23 augustus 2026 · 1 uur 38 min
Today on the program, a trip into the archive and a return to Episode 822, my conversation with Madelaine Lucas, author of the debut novel Thirst for Salt (Tin House). Lees meer
Air date: March 19, 2023.
Lucas is formerly a senior editor of NOON, and she is a graduate of Columbia University. She lives in Australia.
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1050. Beowulf Sheehan
22 augustus 2026 · 1 uur 18 min
Beowulf Sheehan is the author of The Father of the Man: The Last Author Portrait Sitting with Cormac McCarthy (Autofocus Books). Lees meer
Sheehan is a photographer of figures in the arts and humanities. To date, he's photographed better than 1,000 writers from more than 60 countries. His work has been published in the likes of Elle, Esquire, L’Uomo Vogue, The New Yorker, People, Time, Vanity Fair, and Vogue and has been exhibited at institutions such as the American Academy of Arts and Letters, Dostoevsky Museum, International Center of Photography, Museum of the City of New York, Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, and The Witliff Colelctions. Author: The Portraits of Beowulf Sheehan, a collection of portraits of 200 writers from 35 countries with a foreword by Salman Rushdie, was published in 2018. The Father of the Man: The Last Author Portrait Sitting with Cormac McCarthy is Sheehan's second monograph. Beowulf Sheehan is the proud son of an immigrant and translator, grandson of a poet and photographer, grandson of a copy editor, first cousin once removed from an editor, and cousin, first cousin once removed, and great-great-nephew of authors. Raised in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, he lives in New York City.
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Escape from Statin Island
20 augustus 2026 · 1 uur 26 min
Volume 101 of Brad & Mira For the Culture...Mira is late again...was watching a murder trial on her phone...meets her hero Angie K of RHOSC while shopping for underwear...gets a selfie...Brad becomes obsessed with Instagram 'heart doctors'...discovers eleven strange tennis balls in his front yard...Angry Adam drops the hammer...darkness reigns in the world of celebrity...Hayden Panettiere dies at 36 of a suspected overdose...Paris Jackson says she got electroconvulsive therapy as a teenager...former MAGA politician Nancy Mace gets nine tattoos, launches a new YouTube show...Kyrsten Sinema's illicit boyfriend allegedly puts his physician in a chokehold...AOC makes an unsolicited Instagram doc about freezing her eggs...Nick Reiner's questionable legal strategy...multiple soldiers almost leap to their deaths aboard the U.S.S. Lincoln...the latest on Perez Hilton's psychotic break...& more... Lees meer
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1049. Deb Olin Unferth
18 augustus 2026 · 1 uur 17 min
Deb Olin Unferth is the author of the novel Earth 7, available from Graywolf Press. Lees meer
Unferth is the author of six books, including Barn 8 and Wait Till You See Me Dance. She has received a Guggenheim Fellowship and three Pushcart Prizes, and was a National Book Critics Circle Award finalist. Her work has appeared in Granta, Harper’s, McSweeney’s, and The Paris Review.
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REPLAY: Cara Blue Adams on Writing, Privilege, and Connected Stories
16 augustus 2026 · 1 uur 41 min
Today on the program, a trip into the archive and a return to Episode 761, my conversation with Cara Blue Adams, author of the debut story collection You Never Get It Back (University of Iowa Press). Lees meer
Air date: March 2, 2022.
Adams's fiction appears in Granta, the Kenyon Review, American Short Fiction, EPOCH, and Narrative. She is an assistant professor of creative writing at Seton Hall University and lives in Brooklyn, New York.
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100 Disgraceful Episodes
13 augustus 2026 · 1 uur 28 min
Volume 100 of Brad & Mira For the Culture...Mira swims with otters, actually experiences joy...also meets her spirit animal, a sloth...Mira and Tyler confront their extremely loud Israeli neighbors...Brad vs. the frowning angry woman...Brad is now eating oatmeal for dinner...the Glen Hansard Instagram crisis...Angry Adam casually delivers his weekly dose of rage...Perez Hilton has a psychotic break on TikTok Live...Brad Pitt decides to improve his PR situation by drinking alcohol again...Tennessee Geoff checks in from the airport...Trump, paranoid and incontinent, hides in a catering truck...& more... Lees meer
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1048. Julie Buntin
11 augustus 2026 · 1 uur 11 min
Julie Buntin is the author of the novel Famous Men, available from Random House. Lees meer
Buntin's debut novel, Marlena, was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle’s John Leonard Prize, released in ten territories worldwide, and named a best book of the year by over a dozen outlets, including The Washington Post, NPR, and Kirkus Reviews. She is the co-editor of Notes to New Mothers, a collection of dispatches from postpartum life by sixty writers and artists. Other writing has appeared in Harper’s Magazine, The New York Times, The Atlantic, and elsewhere. She lives in Ann Arbor, where she is an assistant professor at the University of Michigan.
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REPLAY: Bill Clegg on Writing, Modern Publishing, and Being a Literary Agent
9 augustus 2026 · 1 uur 11 min
Today on the program, a trip into the archive and a return to Episode 381, my conversation with Bill Clegg, esteemed literary agent and author of several books, including the debut novel Did You Ever Have a Family? (Scout Books). Lees meer
Air date: September 23, 2015.
Bill Clegg is a literary agent in New York and the author of the bestselling memoirs Portrait of an Addict as a Young Man and Ninety Days, and another novel called The End of the Day. He has written for the New York Times, Lapham’s Quarterly, New York magazine, The Guardian, and Harper’s Bazaar.
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Excerpt from 'A Marriage at Sea,' by Sophie Elmhirst
8 augustus 2026 · 19 min
Vol. 15 of Story Time, featuring an author reading aloud from her work. In this episode, Sophie Elmhirst reads from her bestselling book, A Marriage at Sea: A True Story of Love, Obsession, and Shipwreck, now available in trade paperback from Riverhead Books. Lees meer
Sophie Elmhirst is an award-winning journalist who writes regularly for The Guardian Long Read and The Economist; her work has also appeared in The New York Times Magazine, The New Yorker, and Harper’s Bazaar, among other places. She’s the winner of the British Press Award for Feature Writer of the Year and a Foreign Press Award. She lives in London and A Marriage at Sea is her first book.
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