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1024. Tobi Coventry
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is the author of the debut novel , available from Abrams Books. It was the official February pick of the . For the past ten years, Coventry has worked as a book scout for film and television production companies. In 2023, he produced an award-winning short horror film, Blood Rites, based on a story by Daisy Johnson. He lives in East Sussex, UK. *** 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 of...
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Excerpt from 'Clutch,' by Emily Nemens
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Vol. 6 of Story Time, a new series on the program featuring an author reading aloud from her work. In this episode, reads aloud from her sophomore novel, , available from Tin House / Zando. Nemens’s debut novel, The Cactus League, was a New York Times Book ReviewEditors’ Choice and named one of NPR’s and Lit Hub’s favorite books of 2020. Her stories have appeared in BOMB, The Gettysburg Review, n+1, and elsewhere; her illustrations have appeared in The New Yorker and in collaboration with Harvey Pekar. Emily spent over a decade editing literary...
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The 400 Bros
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Volume 81 of Brad & Mira For the Culture...Brad plants a beautiful garden...continues tedious AWP preparations...binge-watching UFO docuseries...the aliens are probably in the ocean...Mira still hasn't set up her hummingbird cam...is now invested in a new conspiracy theory involving the late Queen Elizabeth...Marty Supreme loses huge at the BAFTAs...the Tourette Syndrome vs. Racism online circular firing squad...Prince Andrew gets arrested...screams "I AM THE QUEEN'S SON"...Bonnie Blue gets knocked up by one of 400 men with whom she had unprotected sex in a 24-hour period...&...
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1023. Emily Nemens
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is the author of the novel , available from Tin House. Nemens's debut novel, The Cactus League, was a New York Times Book ReviewEditors’ Choice and named one of NPR’s and Lit Hub’s favorite books of 2020. Her stories have appeared in BOMB, The Gettysburg Review, n+1, and elsewhere; her illustrations have appeared in The New Yorker and in collaboration with Harvey Pekar. Emily spent over a decade editing literary quarterlies, including leading The Paris Review and serving as co-editor and prose editor of The Southern Review. She held the...
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Clavicular Manslaughter
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Volume 80 of Brad & Mira For the Culture...Brad's AWP travel packing anxiety...his compassion for Chevy Chase....watching Eyes Wide Shut, looking for clues to our present reality...contemplating a possible trip to Guatemala....Mira reviews Wuthering Heights..."shockingly prude"...getting obsessed with the Nancy Guthrie case...shoddy police work...another edition of This Week in Dead Influencers...Angry Adam unleashes his wrath...Amy Schumer's revenge bod and performative Valentine's Day post-divorce social media spectacular...Clavicular gets attacked in NYC...bone-smashing and...
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1022. Eric Lichtblau
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is the author of , available from Little, Brown & Co. Lichtblau is a Washington journalist and a two-time Pulitzer Prize winner. He was a reporter in the Washington bureau of the New York Times for nearly 15 years until 2017, and a reporter for the Los Angeles Times for 15 years before that. He has also written for the New Yorker, TIME, USA Today, and other publications. His other books include The Nazis Next Door: How America Became a Safe Haven for Hitler's Men, a New York Times bestseller; Bush's Law: The Remaking of American...
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Excerpt from 'The End of Romance,' by Lily Meyer
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Vol. 5 of Story Time, a new series on the program featuring an author reading aloud from her work. In this episode, reads from her new novel , available from Viking Books. Meyer is a translator, a critic, and the author of the novel Short War. She is also a contributing writer at The Atlantic. Her stories and translations can be found in The Dial, The Drift, The Sewanee Review, The Southern Review, and many other journals, and her essays and criticism appear in outlets including Bookforum, The New Yorker, and The New York Times Book...
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Bad Bunny Saves America
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Volume 79 of Brad & Mira For the Culture...Brad prepares for AWP...Mira advises amphetamines...the Pee-Wee Herman documentary...Brad can't cope with Van Morrison being an asshole...Mira's severe vitamin D deficiency...Angry Adam returns...Bad Bunny drives middle-aged women wild...please save America...Lady Gaga is Latina now...the Epstein Files fallout continues...Ghislaine pleads the 5th...Brad learns about looksmaxxing...& more... *** is a weekly podcast featuring in-depth interviews with today's leading writers. This episode is sponsored by Ulysses. Go...
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1021. Lily Meyer
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is the author of the novel , available from Viking. Meyer is a translator, a critic, and the author of the novel Short War. She is also a contributing writer at The Atlantic. Her stories and translations can be found in The Dial, The Drift, The Sewanee Review, The Southern Review, and many other journals, and her essays and criticism appear in outlets including Bookforum, The New Yorker, and The New York Times Book Review. *** is a weekly podcast featuring in-depth interviews with today's leading writers. This episode is...
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Elmo is in the Epstein Files
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Volume 78 of Brad & Mira For the Culture...podcasting from the fetal position...Brad and Mira are spiritually broken after spending the weekend reading the Epstein Files...Mira doubles her psych meds....Mira goes to a trampoline park, gets injured....Happy birthday, Elmo...farewell to the wonderful Catherine O'Hara...reviewing this year's Grammy Awards...Brad's Fashion Corner....Olivia Dean is an angel sent from heaven?....Justin Bieber's on-stage underwear choices....Brad gets choked up during Bob Weir in-memoriam...the Melania documentary debuts...super-fan tries to break Luigi out...
info_outlineToday on the program, a trip into the archive and a return to Episode 616, my conversation with Tim O'Brien from December 2019.
O'Brien received the 1979 National Book Award for Going After Cacciato. Among his other books are The Things They Carried, Pulitzer Finalist and a New York TimesBook of the Century, and In the Lake of the Woods, winner of the James Fenimore Cooper Prize. He was awarded the Pritzker Literature Award for lifetime achievement in military writing in 2013.
I spoke with Tim O'Brien as he was on tour in support of his memoir, Dad's Maybe Book.
Air date: December 11, 2019.
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