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What Sells a Book?
24 september 2024 · 1 uur 42 min
A new 'Craftwork' episode about the business of selling books. My guest is Kathleen Schmidt, publishing industry veteran, founder of Kathleen Schmidt Public Relations, and author of the Publishing Confidential newsletter. Lees meer
As the Founder and CEO of Kathleen Schmidt Public Relations, Kathleen is a well-respected voice in book publishing with in-depth experience in all aspects of the industry, including as a publicist, literary agent, acquisitions editor, and ghostwriter.
Her career encompasses 30 years of creating and directing impactful and strategic global media, marketing, and branding campaigns for politicians, A-List celebrities, athletes, and high-profile personalities.
To date, she has worked on 50 New York Times bestsellers, and her clients have continuously appeared in top-tier national print, broadcast, and radio outlets such as The Today Show, Good Morning America, Vogue, Elle, Financial Times, Vanity Fair, GQ, and Sirius XM.
Schmidt, who learned to read when she was four, comes from a family of voracious readers. Inspired by the legendary book editor Jackie Kennedy Onassis, she purposely focused on obtaining a position in book publishing.Her fast-growing Substack newsletter, Publishing Confidential, shares her wealth of inside knowledge that she hopes will help demystify the book industry. Married with two children, she resides in New Jersey.
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'Reservoir Bitches' and the Art of Literary Translation
22 september 2024 · 1 uur 11 min
A new 'Craftwork' episode about the art of literary translation. My guests are Julia Sanches and Heather Cleary, co-translators of Reservoir Bitches, the debut story collection by Dahlia de la Cerda, available now from the Feminist Press. Reservoir Bitches is the official September pick of the Otherppl Book Club. Lees meer
Dahlia de la Cerda is a writer and activist based in Aguascalientes, Mexico. She is the author of Perras de Reserva, which won the 2019 Premio Nacional de Cuento Joven Comala, and Desde los Zulos. She is also the cofounder of the feminist organization Morras Help Morras. Reservoir Bitches is her English-language debut.
Julia Sanches translates literature from Spanish, Portuguese, and Catalan into English. Born in Brazil, she now lives in Providence, Rhode Island.
Heather Cleary is an award-winning translator of poetry and prose whose work has been recognized by English PEN, the National Book Foundation, and the Mellon Foundation, among others. She teaches at Sarah Lawrence College and is the author of The Translator's Visibility: Scenes from Contemporary Latin American Fiction.
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Martin Short [Bleeped] at the Beverly Hills Hotel
19 september 2024 · 2 uur 1 min
Volume 15 of Brad & Mira For the Culture...Taylor Swift endorses Kamala (Bras was right)...the downfall of Diddy...Dave Grohl's surprise love child and PR crisis management skills...Bennifer brunch intrigue...Meryl and Martin soft-launching their coupledom?......& more.... Lees meer
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940. Regina Porter
17 september 2024 · 1 uur 2 min
Regina Porter is the author of the novel The Rich People Have Gone Away, available from Hogarth Books. Lees meer
Porter is an award-winning playwright and author of The Travelers, a finalist for the PEN/Hemingway Award for Debut Novel and longlisted for the Orwell Prize for political fiction. A graduate of the MFA fiction program at the Iowa Writers' Workshop, her writing has been published in the Harvard Review, Tin House, and the Oxford American.
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Mira Took a Very Strong Edible
12 september 2024 · 2 uur 14 min
Volume 14 of Brad & Mira For the Culture...the return of the Royals...deciphering the Damon/J-Lo heart-to-heart...Anna Wintour shushes famous people...Harvey Weinstein's heart...J.D. Vance wet t-shirt contest...& more.... Lees meer
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939. Elizabeth Strout
10 september 2024 · 1 uur 3 min
Elizabeth Strout is the author of the novel Tell Me Everything, available from Random House. Lees meer
Strout is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Lucy by the Sea; Oh William!, which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize; Olive, Again; Anything Is Possible, winner of the Story Prize; My Name Is Lucy Barton; The Burgess Boys; Olive Kitteridge, winner of the Pulitzer Prize; Abide with Me; and Amy and Isabelle, winner of the Los Angeles Times Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction and the Chicago Tribune Heartland Prize. She has also been a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award and the Orange Prize in London. She lives in Maine.
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Don't Eat While Listening
5 september 2024 · 1 uur 45 min
Volume 13 of Brad & Mira For the Culture...Mira's heat stroke journey...the silly glory of Pitt and Clooney...Anna Wintour vs. Naomi Campbell...the history of beefing...the Louisville porch pooper...& more.... Lees meer
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938. Kerry Howley
3 september 2024 · 1 uur 14 min
Kerry Howley is the author of Bottoms Up and the Devil Laughs, now available in trade paperback from Vintage. Lees meer
Howley is a feature writer at New York magazine and the author of Thrown, a New York Times Editors' Choice and pick for best-of-the-year lists in Time, Salon, Slate, and many other venues. Her work has appeared in The Paris Review, Granta, Best American Sportswriting, The New York Times Magazine, and Harper's. A Lannan Foundation Fellow, she holds an MFA from the University of Iowa, where she was a professor at the celebrated Nonfiction Writing Program until joining New York. She lives in Los Angeles.
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Whale Juice
29 augustus 2024 · 1 uur 48 min
Volume 12 of Brad & Mira For the Culture...the great Beyonce hoax...RFK Jr., a chainsaw, and a whale...Taylor Swift and cults of personality....astronauts stuck in space, probably having trauma sex...O.J. Simpson cremation jewelry....& more.... Lees meer
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937. Lena Valencia
27 augustus 2024 · 1 uur 7 min
Lena Valencia is the author of the debut story collection Mystery Lights, available from Tin House. It is the official August pick of the Otherppl Book Club. Lees meer
Valencia's fiction has appeared in Ninth Letter, Epiphany, Joyland, the anthology Tiny Nightmares, and elsewhere. She is the recipient of a 2019 Elizabeth George Foundation grant and holds an MFA in fiction from The New School. Originally from Los Angeles, she lives in Brooklyn, New York, where she is the managing editor and director of educational programming at One Story and the co-host of the reading series Ditmas Lit.
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A Hundred Pounds of Weed
22 augustus 2024 · 1 uur 33 min
Volume 11 of Brad & Mira For the Culture...healthy garbage foods...artificial Trump endorsements...the Taylor Swift debate...cults of personality....Alicia Silverstone's street berry fetish....Jeremey Madix asinine weed arrest...Sexyy Red's disgusting beauty products...Brad learns about Anna Delvey...& more... Lees meer
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936. Keziah Weir
20 augustus 2024 · 1 uur 15 min
Keziah Weir is the author of the debut novel The Mythmakers, available in trade paperback from Marysue Rucci Books. Lees meer
Weir is a senior editor at Vanity Fair. Her writing has appeared in The New York Times, Elle, Esquire, and the Los Angeles Review of Books. She grew up in California and British Columbia, and currently lives in Maine with her husband and dog.
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935. Francine Prose
13 augustus 2024 · 1 uur 15 min
Francine Prose is the author of the memoir 1974: A Personal History, available from Harper. Lees meer
Prose is the author of twenty-two works of fiction including the highly acclaimed The Vixen; Mister Monkey; the New York Times bestseller Lovers at the Chameleon Club, Paris 1932; A Changed Man, which won the Dayton Literary Peace Prize; and Blue Angel, which was a finalist for the National Book Award. Her works of nonfiction include the highly praised Anne Frank: The Book, The Life, The Afterlife, and the New York Times bestseller Reading Like a Writer, which has become a classic. The recipient of numerous grants and honors, including a Guggenheim and a Fulbright, a Director's Fellow at the Center for Scholars and Writers at the New York Public Library, Prose is a former president of PEN American Center, and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. She is a Distinguished Writer in Residence at Bard College.
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Bear With Us
8 augustus 2024 · 1 uur 26 min
Volume 10 of Brad & Mira For the Culture...listener mail...sad about David Lynch...Tom Cruise's stuntman death wish....Vanna White vs. Ryan Seacrest...RFK Jr.'s dead bear cub controversy... and more... Lees meer
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934. Kevin Barry
6 augustus 2024 · 1 uur 12 min
Kevin Barry is the author of the novel The Heart in Winter, available from Doubleday. Lees meer
Barry is the author of the novels Night Boat to Tangier, Beatlebone, and City of Bohane as well as three story collections including That Old Country Music. His stories and essays have appeared in the New Yorker, Granta and elsewhere. He also works as a playwright and screenwriter lives in County Sligo, Ireland.
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Cannibals, Constipation, and the Trad Wife Blues
1 augustus 2024 · 1 uur 33 min
Volume 9 of Brad & Mira For the Culture...developments in the Timberlake DWI narrative...analyzing the subtext of a Mormon trad wife's social media feeds...giving motorcycles to elderly men...Ozempic and digestion...Kardashian kid birthday parties and K-hole therapy...& more... Lees meer
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933. Elisa Gabbert
30 juli 2024 · 1 uur 24 min
Elisa Gabbert is the author of the essay collection Any Person is the Only Self, available from FSG Originals. Lees meer
Gabbert is the author of Normal Distance, The Unreality of Memory, and several other collections of poetry, essays, and criticism. She writes the On Poetry column for The New York Times, and her work has appeared in Harper's Magazine, The Atlantic, The Believer, The New York Times Magazine, The New York Review of Books, and other publications.
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Mira Lived
25 juli 2024 · 1 uur 54 min
Volume 8 of Brad & Mira For the Culture...Mira recounts her battle with Covid...celebrities weigh in on Biden's exit from the presidential race...Hawk Tuah, philanthropist...David Banda scavenges in Manhattan...Mira learns who Bob Newhart was (RIP)...Travis Kelce's cop mustache...the case against Alec Baldwin is dismissed...Brad learns about Love Island...& more... Lees meer
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932. Nina Sharma
23 juli 2024 · 1 uur 34 min
Nina Sharma is the author of the debut memoir-in-essays The Way You Make Me Feel: Love in Black and Brown, available from Penguin Press. It is the official July pick of the Otherppl Book Club. Lees meer
Sharma's work has appeared in The New Yorker, Electric Literature, Longreads, and The Margins. A graduate of the MFA program at Columbia University, she served as the programs director at the Asian American Writers' Workshop and currently teaches at Columbia and Barnard College. She is a proud cofounder of the all-South Asian women's improv group Not Your Biwi.
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931. Juliet Escoria
16 juli 2024 · 1 uur 18 min
Juliet Escoria is the author of the story collection You Are the Snake, available from Soft Skull Press. Lees meer
Escoria is the author of the novel Juliet the Maniac (Melville House, May 2019), which was named a "best of" book by Nylon, Elle, Buzzfeed, and others, and was shortlisted for the VCU Cabell First Novelist Prize. She also wrote the poetry collection Witch Hunt (Lazy Fascist Press, 2016) and the story collection Black Cloud (CCM/Emily Books, 2014), which were both listed in various best of the year roundups. Her writing can be found in places like Prelude, VICE, The Fader, BOMB, and the New York Times, and has been translated into many languages. She was born in Australia, raised in San Diego, and currently lives in West Virginia, where she teaches English at a community college.
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930. Aleksandr Skorobogatov
11 juli 2024 · 1 uur 9 min
Aleksandr Skorobogatov is the author of Russian Gothic, available from Rare Bird. Translated by Ilona Yazhbin Chavasse. Lees meer
Skorobogatov was born in Grodno in what is now Belorussia. He is one of the most original Russian writers of the post-communist era. An heir to Dostoevsky, Gogol, Bulgakov, Nabokov, Pelevin, and Sorokin--the surreal line of the Russian literary canon--his novels have been published to great acclaim in Russian, Croatian, Danish, Dutch, French, Italian, Greek, Serbian, and Spanish. He won the prestigious International Literary Award Città di Penne for the Italian edition of Russian Gothic, which also received the Best Novel of the Year Award from Yunost. Cocaine (2017) won Belgium's Cutting Edge Award for 'Best Book International'. His most recent novel, Raccoon, was published by De Geus in 2020. De Tijd has called Skorobogatov "the best Russian writer of the moment." He lives and works in Belgium.
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Can Fasting Feed Creativity?
9 juli 2024 · 1 uur 11 min
A new 'Craftwork' episode—all about the practice of fasting and its many implications. My guest is John Oakes, author of The Fast: The History, Science, Philosophy, and Promise of Doing Without, available from Avid Reader Press. Lees meer
Oakes is publisher of The Evergreen Review. He is editor-at-large for OR Books, which he cofounded in 2009. Oakes has written for a variety of publications, among them The Oxford Handbook of Publishing, Publishers Weekly, the Review of Contemporary Fiction, Associated Press, and The Journal of Electronic Publishing. Oakes is a cum laude graduate of Princeton University, where he earned the English Department undergraduate thesis prize for an essay on Samuel Beckett. He was born and raised in New York City, where he lives, and is the father of three adult children. While working on The Fast, he was awarded residencies at Yaddo (New York) and Jentel (Wyoming). The Fast is his first book.
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It's Hard to Talk About
8 juli 2024 · 28 min
In this week's monologue, I talk about the presidential election and how I've been finding it unusually difficult to talk about.
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929. Porochista Khakpour
3 juli 2024 · 1 uur 20 min
Porochista Khakpour is the author of the novel Tehrangeles, available from Pantheon.
Khakpour was born in Tehran and raised in the Greater Los Angeles area. She is the critically acclaimed author of two previous novels, Sons and Other Flammable Objects and The Last Illusion; a memoir, Sick; and a collection of essays, Brown Album. Her writing has appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, The Wall Street Journal, Bookforum, Elle, and many other publications. She lives in New York City.
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Tori Spelling's Placentas
2 juli 2024 · 1 uur 32 min
Volume 7 of Brad & Mira For the Culture...the fall of the house of Jennifer...Swifties v Julia...Andy Cohen's Oprah regrets...the Hawk Tuah concert experience...the Beckham's' lusty youth...the Bon Jovi honeymoon...and more...
Brad & Mira For the Culture is a series about popular culture and generational divides. Brad is inept when it comes to pretty much anything mainstream, while Mira is a a voracious consumer. Brad's Gen X. Mira's a Millennial. Together, they try to make sense of a senseless world.
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The Errors Tuah
27 juni 2024 · 1 uur 36 min
Volume 6 of Brad & Mira For the Culture...deep fakes...edibles in Las Vegas...Liam Gallagher's neighbors...Kourtney Kardashian inducing labor...the rise of Hawk Tuah....Dave Grohl vs. T-Swift....monster smut....Katy Perry's latest sin....OnlyFans 101....and more...
Brad & Mira For the Culture is a series about popular culture and generational divides. Brad is inept when it comes to pretty much anything mainstream, while Mira is a a voracious consumer. Brad's Gen X. Mira's a Millennial. Together, they try to make sense of a senseless world.
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How to Write from the Inside Out
26 juni 2024 · 1 uur 36 min
A new 'Craftwork' episode about writing deeply personal narratives. My guest is Rachel Krantz, author of the debut memoir Open: An Uncensored Memoir of Love, Liberation, and Non-Monogamy, now available in trade paperback from Harmony Books.
Krantz is a journalist and one of the founding editors of Bustle, where she served as senior features editor for three years. Her work has been featured on NPR, The Guardian, Vox, Vice, and many other outlets. She's the recipient of the Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award, the Investigative Reporters and Editors Radio Award, the Edward R. Murrow Award, and the Peabody Award for her work as an investigative reporter with YR Media. Open is her first book.
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Big Asses, Plane Crashes, & Donald Sutherland's Ashes
25 juni 2024 · 1 uur 24 min
Volume 5 of Brad & Mira For the Culture...juice cleansing....RIP Donald Sutherland...J-Lo's Photogenic Ass....Bill Belichick's Geriatric Gen Z Romance...J-Law's New Movie...Kanye Insanity...Rap Beefs...Boeing Nosedives...and more...
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Kathryn Miles on the 90s, the Shenandoah Murders, LGBTQ Rights, Finding Refuge in Nature, and Wilderness Crime
21 juni 2024 · 25 min
In today's flashback, an outtake from Episode 774, my conversation with Kathryn Miles. It first aired on May 25, 2022.
Miles is an award-winning journalist and science writer. She received a Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy from Saint Louis University and took both her Master of Arts and Doctorate in English from the University of Delaware. The long-time editor of Hawk & Handsaw, Miles served as professor of environmental studies and writing at Unity College from 2001-2015 and has since taught in several graduate schools and low residency-MFA programs. Miles is the author of five books: Adventures with Ari, All Standing, Superstorm, Quakeland, and Trailed: One Woman’s Quest to Solve the Shenandoah Murders. Her essays and articles have appeared in publications including Audubon, Best American Essays, The Boston Globe, Down East, Ecotone, History, National Geographic, The New York Times, Outside, Pacific Standard, Politico, Popular Mechanics, and Time. She currently serves as a scholar-in-residence for the Maine Humanities Council, a visiting professor at Colby College, and a member of the Eastern Oregon University MFA faculty. She is also a private consultant available for emerging and established writers. Kathryn lives in Portland, Maine.
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Down Bad Cruising at the Gym
20 juni 2024 · 54 min
The fourth episode of 'Brad & Mira For the Culture'...O'Reilly Auto Parts...Ozempic...John Travolta at the gym...Justin Timberlake's DUI...and more...
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928. Ayana Mathis
19 juni 2024 · 1 uur 17 min
Ayana Mathis is the author of the novel The Unsettled, now available in trade paperback from Vintage.
Mathis's first novel, The Twelve Tribes of Hattie was a New York Times best seller, an NPR Best Book of 2013, the second selection for Oprah's Book Club 2.0. and has been translated into sixteen languages. Her nonfiction has been published in the The New York Times, The Atlantic, Guernica, and RollingStone. Mathis is a graduate of the Iowa Writers Workshop. She was born in Philadelphia, and currently lives in New York City where she teaches writing in Hunter College's MFA Program.
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We Need to Talk About Kevin
18 juni 2024 · 1 uur 10 min
The third episode of 'Brad & Mira For the Culture,' in which we cover Grimace— McDonald's character, gay icon, and talisman of the New York Mets...the return of Kate Middleton...and the weird and twisted downfall of Oscar winner Kevin Spacey.
'Brad & Mira For the Culture' is a series about popular culture and generational divides. Brad is inept when it comes to pretty much anything mainstream, while Mira is a a voracious consumer. Brad's Gen X. Mira's a Millennial. Together, they try to make sense of a senseless world.
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927. Teddy Wayne
16 juni 2024 · 1 uur 29 min
Teddy Wayne is the author of the novel The Winner, available from Harper.
Wayne is the winner of a 2011 Whiting Writers' Award and a finalist for the Young Lions Fiction Award, PEN/Bingham Prize, and Dayton Literary Peace Prize. He writes regularly for the New Yorker, New York Times, Vanity Fair, McSweeney's, and other publications.
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Richard Chiem on Joy Williams, Tonal Struggles, Kristin Iversen, Hippo Attacks, Mountain Lions, Depression, Pot, Childhood, and the Joy of Being a Sad Person
14 juni 2024 · 23 min
In today's flashback, an outtake from Episode 574, my conversation with Richard Chiem. It first aired on April 3, 2019.
Chiem is the author of You Private Person (Sorry House Classics) and the novel King of Joy (Soft Skull Press, 2019). His work has appeared in City Arts Magazine, NY Tyrant, and Gramma Poetry, among other places. His book, You Private Person, was named one of Publisher Weekly's 10 Essential Books of the American West. He lives in Seattle, WA.
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926. Kimberly King Parsons
12 juni 2024 · 1 uur 41 min
Kimberly King Parsons is the author of the debut novel We Were the Universe, available from Knopf. The official June pick of the Otherppl Book Club.
Parsons is the author of Black Light, a collection of stories that was long-listed for the National Book Award and the Story Prize. In 2020, she received the National Magazine Award for fiction. Born in Lubbock, Texas, she lives in Portland, Oregon, with her partner and children. We Were the Universe is her first novel.
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Schrödinger's Kate Middleton
11 juni 2024 · 1 uur 46 min
The second episode of 'Brad & Mira For the Culture,' in which we cover a wide range of subject matter, including the impending Baldwin reality show, porn in the Amazon, the mystery of Kate Middleton, 'hot rodent' men, Tortured Poets Department, and more.
'Brad & Mira For the Culture' is a series about popular culture and generational divides. Brad Listi is inept when it comes to pretty much anything mainstream, while Mira Gonzalez is a a voracious consumer. Brad's Gen X. Mira's a Millennial. Together, they try to make sense of a senseless world.
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925. Morgan Talty
9 juni 2024 · 1 uur 37 min
Morgan Talty is the author of the debut novel Fire Exit, available from Tin House.
Talty is a citizen of the Penobscot Indian Nation. His debut short story collection, Night of the Living Rez, won the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize, the American Academy of Arts and Letters Sue Kaufman Prize, the National Book Critics Circle John Leonard Prize, the New England Book Award, the National Book Foundation's 5 Under 35 Honor, and was a finalist for the Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers Award, the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction, the Mark Twain American Voice in Literature Award, and The Story Prize. His writing has appeared in The Georgia Review, Granta, Shenandoah, TriQuarterly, Narrative, Lit Hub, and elsewhere. Talty is an assistant professor of English in Creative Writing and Native American and Contemporary Literature at the University of Maine, Orono, and he is on the faculty at the Stonecoast MFA in Creative Writing as well as the Institute of American Indian Arts. He lives in Levant, Maine.
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Tony Tulathimutte on Book Reviews, Literary Omertà, Writing for Oneself, Attention Problems, Page Layout, and Permanence
7 juni 2024 · 22 min
In today's flashback, an outtake from Episode 409, my conversation with author Tony Tulathimutte. It first aired on April 13, 2016.
Tulathimutte is the author of the debut novel Private Citizens and the forthcoming novel-in-stories Rejection (September 2024). His work has appeared in The Paris Review, n +1, The Nation, The New Republic, and The New York Times. The recipient of an O. Henry Award and a Whiting Award, he runs the writing class CRIT in Brooklyn.
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924. Max Porter
5 juni 2024 · 1 uur 23 min
Max Porter is the author of the novel Shy, available in trade paperback from Graywolf Press.
Porter is the author of Lanny, which was longlisted for the Booker Prize, Grief Is the Thing with Feathers, winner of the International Dylan Thomas Prize, and The Death of Francis Bacon. He lives in Bath with his family.
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The Real Podcasters of Los Angeles
4 juni 2024 · 1 uur 6 min
Another new experimental content offering! This one is called 'Brad & Mira For the Culture,' and for the next few weeks, it'll be happening on Tuesdays. (We'll see what the audience response is before we decide whether or not to proceed any further. If you want to send us feedback, email us at letters [at] otherppl [dot] com.)
'Brad & Mira For the Culture' will be all about popular culture and generational divides. I'm inept when it comes to pretty much anything mainstream, while Mira is a a voracious consumer. I'm Gen X. She's a Millennial. We're going to discuss and see what happens.
Stay tuned.
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923. Rita Bullwinkel
2 juni 2024 · 1 uur 32 min
Rita Bullwinkel is the author of the debut novel Headshot, available from Viking.
Bullwinkel is the author of Belly Up, a story collection that won the Believer Book Award. The recipient of a 2022 Whiting Award, she has had her work published in Tin House, Conjunctions, BOMB Magazine, NOON, and Guernica. She is editor at large for McSweeney's, the deputy editor of The Believer, and a contributing editor at NOON. She lives in San Francisco and teaches at the California College of the Arts and the University of San Francisco.
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Bill Clegg on Literary Agents, Humility, Excellence, Fame, Sales, and the Mysteries of Publishing
31 mei 2024 · 22 min
In today's flashback, an outtake from Episode 381, my conversation with author and literary agent Bill Clegg. It first aired on September 23, 2015.
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. The author of the novels Did You Ever Have a Family and 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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922. R.O. Kwon
29 mei 2024 · 1 uur 17 min
R.O. Kwon is the author of the novel Exhibit, available from Riverhead Books.
Kwon is the author of the nationally bestselling novel The Incendiaries, which was named a best book of the year by more than forty publications and was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle John Leonard Award. With Garth Greenwell, Kwon coedited the bestselling Kink, a New York Times Notable Book. Her writing has appeared in The New York Times, The New Yorker, Vanity Fair, and elsewhere. She has received fellowships and awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, Yaddo, and MacDowell. Born in Seoul, Kwon has lived most of her life in the United States.
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921. Colombe Schneck
26 mei 2024 · 1 uur 10 min
Colombe Schneck is the author of Swimming in Paris: A Life in Three Stories, available from Penguin Press. Translated by Lauren Elkin and Natasha Lehrer.
Schneck is documentary film director, a journalist, and the author of twelve books of fiction and nonfiction. She has received prizes from the Académie française, Madame Figaro, and the Société des gens de lettres. The recipient of a scholarship from the Villa Medici in Rome as well as a Stendhal grant from the Institut français, she was born and educated in Paris, where she still lives.
Lauren Elkin is the author of several books, including Art Monsters: Unruly Bodies in Feminist Art and Flâneuse: Women Walk the City in Paris, New York, Tokyo, Venice, and London, a BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week, a New York Times Notable Book of 2017, and a finalist for the PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay. Her essays on art, literature, and culture have appeared in the London Review of Books, The New York Times, Granta, Harper's, Le Monde, Les Inrockuptibles, and Frieze, among other publications. She is also an award-winning translator, most recently of Simone de Beauvoir's previously unpublished novel The Inseparables. After twenty years in Paris, she now lives in London.
Natasha Lehrer is a writer, translator, editor, and teacher. Her essays and reviews have appeared in The Guardian, The Observer (London), The Times Literary Supplement, The Nation, Frieze, and other journals. As literary editor of the Jewish Quarterly she has worked with writers including Deborah Levy, George Prochnik, and Joanna Rakoff. She has contributed to several books, most recently Looking for an Enemy: 8 Essays on Antisemitism. She has translated over two dozen books, including works by Georges Bataille, Robert Desnos, Amin Maalouf, Vanessa Springora, and Chantal Thomas. In 2016, she won the Scott Moncrieff Prize for Suite for Barbara Loden by Nathalie Léger. She lives in Paris.
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Mark Leidner on Aphorisms, Writing, Risk, Memory, Parables, Myth, Poetry, Religion, Miracles, Nature, Childhood, and Church
24 mei 2024 · 26 min
In today's flashback, an outtake from Episode 545, my conversation with author and poet Mark Leidner. It first aired on October 3, 2018.
Leidner is a writer from south Georgia who currently lives in California with his family. His books include a poetry collection called Returning the Sword to the Stone, a story collection entitled Under the Sea, and a collection of aphorisms called The Angel in the Dream of Our Hangover. He posts shorter writing on twitter, videos and photos on instagram, and longer writing can be found on substack.
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920. Hari Kunzru
22 mei 2024 · 1 uur 22 min
Hari Kunzru is the author of the novel Blue Ruin, available from Knopf.
Kunzru is the author of six other novels, Red Pill, White Tears, Gods Without Men, My Revolutions, Transmission, and The Impressionist. The recipient of fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the American Academy in Berlin, and the Cullman Center at the New York Public Library, he is a regular contributor to The New York Review of Books and writes the "Easy Chair" column for Harper's Magazine. He lives in Brooklyn and teaches in the Creative Writing Program at New York University.
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919. Myriam Lacroix
19 mei 2024 · 1 uur 13 min
Myriam Lacroix is the author of the debut novel How It Works Out, available from The Overlook Press. It is the official May pick of the Otherppl Book Club.
Lacroix was born in Montreal to a Québécois mother and a Moroccan father, and currently lives in Vancouver, British Columbia. She has a BFA in creative writing from the University of British Columbia and an MFA from Syracuse University, where she was editor in chief of Salt Hill Journal and received the New York Public Humanities Fellowship for creating Out-Front, an LGBTQ+ writing group whose goal was to expand the possibilities of queer writing.
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Sam Tallent on Publishing, Comedy, Community, Doug Stanhope, Vegas, Reading, Self-Education, Writing, Weed, and Panic Attacks
17 mei 2024 · 27 min
In today's flashback, an outtake from Episode 708, my conversation with author and comedian Sam Tallent. It first aired on May 26, 2021.
Tallent is a comedian, novelist and host of the Chubby Behemoth Podcast. For the last decade, he has performed more than 45 weekends per year in North America, Asia, Australia and Europe. His writing has appeared in Birdy Magazine and on VICE.com and he’s told jokes on Comedy Central, TruTV and VICELAND.
His acclaimed debut novel, Running the Light, heralded as the definitive book on standup comedy, is soon to be a major motion picture (Doug Stanhope: “the best fictional representation of comedy in any medium ever,” Marc Maron: “a beautiful rendering of a dark reality”). His novella, ATTABOY, was published as an Audible Original. "Waiting for Death to Claim Us," his comedy special, is available on Amazon Prime. He lives in Colorado.
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918. Carvell Wallace
15 mei 2024 · 1 uur 30 min
Carvell Wallace is the author of the debut memoir Another Word for Love, available from MCD Books.
Wallace grew up between Southwestern PA, Washington DC, and Los Angeles. He attended Tisch School for the Arts and worked as a stage actor before spending fifteen years in direct service youth non-profits. He has covered arts, entertainment, music, culture, race, sports, and parenting for The New York Times Magazine, The New Yorker, Slate, GQ, Pitchfork, MTV News and others. As a podcast host, he has been nominated for a Peabody and won a Kaleidoscope Award and was the Slate parenting advice columnist. He is the co-author of the New York Times best-selling basketball memoir The Sixth Man with Andre Iguodala. He lives in Oakland and has two adult children, a comfortable couch, and a lot of plants.
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The Life of a Bookseller
12 mei 2024 · 1 uur 22 min
A new 'Craftwork' episode entitled 'The Life of a Bookseller.' My guest is Paul Yamazaki, principal book buyer for City Lights Bookstore. His new book is called Reading the Room: A Bookseller's Tale, available from Ode Books.
Yamazaki has been the principal buyer at City Lights Booksellers, the legendary San Francisco bookstore and publisher founded by Lawrence Ferlinghetti and Peter Martin, for more than fifty years. A champion for national and global literature, writers, publishers, and independent bookstores, Yamazaki was the recipient of the National Book Foundation's 2023 Literarian Award for Outstanding Service to the American Literary Community. He has mentored generations of booksellers across America. Rick Simonsonhas worked at Seattle's Elliott Bay Book Company, one of the US's leading independent bookstores, since 1976. He is Elliott Bay's senior buyer and founded their internationally renowned author reading program forty years ago. He presently serves on the governing boards of Copper Canyon Press, the University of Washington Press, and UNESCO Seattle City of Literature.
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