Excerpt from 'Sunrise,' by Téa Obreht
Otherppl with Brad Listi
reads from her new novel , available from Random House. 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
Otherppl with Brad Listi
A new Craftwork conversation with , author of the biography , available from Mariner Books. The paperback edition will be available on November 2. 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...
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1056. Roshan Sethi
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is the author of the debut novel , available from Simon & Schuster. 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...
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Excerpt from 'The Simp,' by Roshan Sethi
Otherppl with Brad Listi
reads from his debut novel , available from Simon & Schuster. 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...
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Angry Adam's Kafkaesque Prison
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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... *** is a weekly podcast featuring in-depth interviews with today's leading writers. Available where...
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1055. Emily St. John Mandel
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is the author of the novel , available from Knopf. 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...
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Ben Loory Reads 'The Poet' & 'The Squid Who Fell in Love with the Sun'
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Vol. 19 of Story Time, featuring an author reading aloud from his/her/their work. In this episode, reads two stories. The first story is called 'The Poet,' from his debut collection entitled . And the second story is called 'The Squid Who Fell in Love with the Sun,' from his second collection, . Both books are available from Penguin. 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,...
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The Least Alive a Non-Dead Person Has Ever Looked
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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...
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1054. Salman Rushdie & Rachel Eliza Griffiths
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and join me to talk about , the new documentary directed by Academy Award–winning filmmaker Alex Gibney. Inspired by Rushdie’s 2024 memoir , 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,...
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15 Years of Otherppl: What 1,000+ Conversations with Writers Have Taught Me
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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. *** is a weekly podcast featuring in-depth interviews with today's leading writers. Available where podcasts are available: , , , etc. Get the debut audio course from DeepDive. 50+ hours of never-before-heard...
info_outlineA new Craftwork conversation with Matthew Clark Davison and Alice LaPlante, co-authors of The Lab: Experimentsin Writing Across Genre, available from W. W. Norton & Col.
Davison is the author of Doubting Thomas and founder of The Lab, a generative writing workshop. He is emeritus faculty in Creative Writing at San Francisco State University, and lives in Oakland, California with his husband.
LaPlante is the author of the craft book The Making of a Story and the New York Times best-selling novel Turn of Mind. She has taught creative writing at Stanford and San Francisco State University and lives in Mallorca, Spain, with her family.
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