Gothchella
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Volume 86 of Brad & Mira For the Culture...Brad is visited by animals...a white pigeon...a coyote...Mira is swarmed by bugs...ants...mosquitoes...Coachella, Weekend 1 recap...Trent Reznor wins Mira's jet-black heart...pondering Lena Dunham's tell-all memoir...Lauren Sanchez believes the oligarchy needs to stop apologizing and start having fun...Nicole Kidman is becoming a death doula...Aubrey Plaza is with child...& more... *** is a weekly podcast featuring in-depth interviews with today's leading writers. Available where podcasts are available: , , ,...
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1029. Ada Limón
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is the author of , available from Scribner. She served as the 24th Poet Laureate of the United States. Ada Limón is the author of seven books of poetry, including Startlement: New & Selected Poems; The Hurting Kind, which was a finalist for the Griffin Prize; The Carrying, which won the National Books Critics Circle Award and was a finalist for the PEN/Jean Stein Book Award; and Bright Dead Things, which was named a finalist for the National Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and the Kingsley Tufts Award. Limón is the recipient of a MacArthur...
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Fear and Loathing in the Cheese Castle
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Volume 85 of Brad & Mira For the Culture...Spring Break recap...the Listis do Las Vegas...Brad goes Mormon?...Mira in the Cheese Castle...Passover in John Hughes country...Angry Adam returns from London...Trump spirals deeper into senile homicidal insanity...teases nuclear war...LeAnn Rimes experiences orgasmic jaw release on camera...Tiger Woods needs to work on his driver...Kristi Noem's cross-dressing husband ...& more... *** is a weekly podcast featuring in-depth interviews with today's leading writers. This episode is sponsored by Ulysses. Go to to...
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How Literary Awards Work: A Conversation with PEN/Faulkner Executive Director Gwydion Suilebhan
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is the Executive Director of the , which announced the 2026 recipient of the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction on April 6th—'s debut story collection, (A Public Space Books). Suilebhan is also a writer, arts and technology innovator, and arts advocate. A founding member of The Welders—a Helen Hayes Award-winning playwrights collective in Washington, DC—Suilebhan previously held the position of Director of Brand and Marketing for Woolly Mammoth, and he has worked as a brand and technology consultant for a variety of large arts and culture organizations, including Ford’s Theatre, the...
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REPLAY: Lorrie Moore on Writing, the Afterlife, and Ghost Stories
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Today on the program, a trip into the archive and a return to , my conversation with author . (Note: Brad & Mira for the Culture is on Spring Break and will return next week.) Air date: June 25, 2023. Moore is the Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Professor of English at Vanderbilt University. She is the recipient of a Lannan Foundation Fellowship, as well as the PEN/Malamud Award and the Rea Award for her achievement in the short story. She is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. She lives in Nashville, Tennessee. *** is a weekly podcast featuring in-depth...
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1028. Jung Yun
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is the author of the novel , available now from 37 Ink / Simon & Schuster. Jung Yun was born in Seoul, South Korea, and grew up in Fargo, North Dakota. She received her MFA in English and creative writing at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. She is the author of O Beautiful, which was a New York Times Editors’ Choice, a New York Times Group Read, and a San Francisco Chronicle Book of the Year. Her debut novel, Shelter, was longlisted for the Center for Fiction’s First Novel Prize. *** is a weekly podcast featuring in-depth...
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Excerpt from 'Black Bag,' by Luke Kennard
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Vol. 8 of Story Time, a new series on the program featuring an author reading aloud from his work. In this episode, reads aloud from his new novel, , available from Zando. It was the official March 2026 pick of the . Kennard is an award-winning poet and novelist. In 2014 he was named one of the Next Generation Poets by the Poetry Book Society in their once-per-decade list. His collection, Cain, was shortlisted for the International Dylan Thomas Prize and described by Alan Hollinghurst as “the cleverest and funniest thing I’ve read this year,” and Notes on the...
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A Few Good Afromen
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Volume 84 of Brad & Mira For the Culture...Brad decries the tribal tendencies of Homo Sapiens...Is Hilaria Baldwin taping a new reality show?...Spring Breakers...Brad family road trip to Vegas...Mira to Chicago with her gay boyfriend Alex...Mira is traumatized by Neighbors...but charmed by Project Hail Mary...Romy Mars reflects on getting high with her many babysitters...Afroman, American Hero for the Modern Age...Cornhole Homicide Mystery...RIP Robert Mueller & Chuck Norris...& more... *** is a weekly podcast featuring in-depth interviews with today's...
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1027. Luke Kennard
Otherppl with Brad Listi
is the author of the novel , available from Zando. It is the official March 2026 pick of the . Kennard is an award-winning poet and novelist. In 2014 he was named one of the Next Generation Poets by the Poetry Book Society in their once-per-decade list. His collection, Cain, was shortlisted for the International Dylan Thomas Prize and described by Alan Hollinghurst as “the cleverest and funniest thing I’ve read this year,” and Notes on the Sonnets won the Forward prize for Best Poetry Collection in 2021. The Transition, his first novel, was a BBC Radio 4 Book at...
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Excruciating Oscars Recap
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Volume 83 of Brad & Mira For the Culture...trying to process this year's Oscars...Brad's Fashion Corner...the Marty Supreme shutout...Club Chalamet turns on its hero...Sean Penn no-shows...the chainsmoker-bodybuilder dichotomy...Penn has been tactically deployed to Ukraine...Javier Bardem stands alone...Babs takes the In Memoriam segment off the rails...Mira's grandma has her moment of triumph before an audience of a billion people...the predictable social media of it all...PTA goes momentarily Gollum ...& more... *** is a weekly podcast featuring in-depth interviews with...
info_outlineVolume 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...& more...
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