1013. Jeannie Vanasco
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is the author of the memoir , available from Tin House. It is the official December pick of the Otherppl Book Club. Vanasco is the author of the memoirs Things We Didn’t Talk About When I Was a Girl and The Glass Eye. Born and raised in Sandusky, Ohio, she lives in Baltimore and is an associate professor of English at Towson University. *** is a weekly podcast featuring in-depth interviews with today's leading writers. This episode is sponsored by Ulysses. Go to to download Ulysses, and use the code OTHERPPL at checkout to get 25% off the first year...
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Excerpt from 'Only Way Out,' by Tod Goldberg
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Vol. 3 of Story Time, a new series on the program featuring an author reading aloud from his work. In this episode, reads from his latest work of crime fiction, a novel called , available from Thomas & Mercer. Goldberg is the New York Times bestselling author of sixteen novels, including the Gangsterland quartet: Gangsterland, Gangster Nation; The Low Desert, and Gangsters Don't Die. His short fiction and essays have been anthologized in Best American Mystery and Suspense and Best American Essays and appear regularly in the Los Angeles Times, USA Today, and Alta. Tod is a...
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Don't Take Your Shoes Off
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Volume 72 of Brad & Mira For the Culture...police helicopters interrupt Brad's pre-dawn routine...almost sneezing in the dental chair...Brad gets weepy watching the Jeff Buckley documentary...Mira helps her friend Alex organize a holiday orgy...the Baldwins plotting a move?...Tarantino attacks Paul Dano...all of Hollywood retaliates...the most annoying A-list auteur in history...Dame Judi calls for the liberation of Harvey....an update on Tara Reid's hotel bar fiasco...Trump hosts his first Kennedy Center Honors...and more.... *** is a weekly podcast featuring in-depth...
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1012. Jordan Castro
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is the author of the novel , available from Catapult Press. Castro is also the author of The Novelist, and two poetry books. His fiction and non-fiction has been published in Harper’s, The Point, Tin House, Muumuu House, and more. He is the Deputy Director of the Cluny Institute, and on the board of the Giancarlo DiTrapano Foundation for Literature and the Arts. *** is a weekly podcast featuring in-depth interviews with today's leading writers. This episode is sponsored by Ulysses. Go to to download Ulysses, and use the code OTHERPPL at checkout to get 25% off the...
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1011. Lauren Rothery
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is the author of the debut novel , available from Ecco Books. Rothery was born in London and raised in San Diego. She spent her twenties writing and directing short films and music videos between New York and Los Angeles. In 2020, she moved to Europe and began writing fiction. Television is her first novel. *** 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 insight, inspiration, and instruction...
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Excerpt from 'Empire of Orgasm,' by Ellen Huet
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Vol. 2 of Story Time, a new series on the program featuring an author reading aloud from her work. In this episode, reads from (MCD Books). Huet is an investigative journalist who covers technology and Silicon Valley forBloomberg News. She writes award-winning features for Bloomberg Businessweek magazine, has hosted two seasons of the podcast Foundering, and holds a particular interest in writing about strange and complex subcultures. Previously, she was a staff writer at Forbes and a crime reporter at the San Francisco Chronicle. She lives in the...
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Kevin Spacey: Live from the Congo
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Volume 71 of Brad & Mira For the Culture...Brad tries tai-chi...in holiday hell with the Elf on a Shelf...Mira's grandfather goes clam-diving...influencers keep dying...Kevin Spacey rocks Tel Aviv...Olivia Nuzzi, already out at Vanity Fair...the need to formalize cancellation rehab...Kim K's low activity brain scan...everyone looks like shit at the Gotham Awards...and more.... *** 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...
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1010. Laura K. Field
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is the author of , available from Princeton University Press. Field is an associate with the Illiberalism Studies Program at George Washington University and a nonresident fellow at the Brookings Institution. She has written about the New Right for The New Republic, Politico, The Bulwark, and other publications, and holds a PhD in government from the University of Texas at Austin. She lives in Washington, DC. *** is a weekly podcast featuring in-depth interviews with today's leading writers. Available where podcasts are available: , , , etc....
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1009. Tod Goldberg
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is the author of the novel , available from Thomas & Mercer. Tod Goldberg is the New York Times bestselling author of sixteen novels, including the Gangsterland quartet: Gangsterland, a finalist for the Hammett Prize; Gangster Nation; The Low Desert, a Southwest Book of the Year; and Gangsters Don't Die, an Amazon Best Book of 2023 and a Southwest Book of the Year. Other works include The House of Secrets, coauthored with Brad Meltzer; Living Dead Girl, a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize; and the Burn Notice series. His short...
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Excerpt from 'Open Wide,' by Jessica Gross
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A new series on the podcast called Story Time, featuring an author reading aloud from her work. In this debut episode, reads from her new novel, , available from Abrams Books. Open Wide was the November 2025 pick of the . Gross is also the author of the debut novel Hysteria (2020), which Publishers Weekly declared "every bit a page-turner as it is a descent into sexual madness." Hysteria has been optioned for TV development, and Open Wide for film development. Gross's nonfiction has appeared in the New York Times Magazine, Lilith, and...
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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