1032. Kim Samek
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is the author of the debut story collection , available from The Dial Press. Samek's fiction has won the O. Henry Prize, the Pushcart Prize and has been cited as a distinguished story in Best American Short Stories. Her stories appear in Zyzzyva, The Threepenny Review, Story, Guernica, and elsewhere. She works as a TV writer and producer, with credits including WordGirl and Catfish, and her writing has been nominated for an Emmy Award. She lives in Los Angeles. *** is a weekly podcast featuring in-depth interviews with today's...
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Russell Brand Bible Study
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Volume 88 of Brad & Mira For the Culture...***Samantha Irby, substitute podcaster / guest co-host***...Mira is out this week with a herniated disc...the Gonzalez chaos reigns...Sam explains her love of Orc penises and monster smut...Brad obsesses over a children's hospital in Denmark...feels inferior to The Strokes...prepares for next week's colonoscopy...reluctantly processing the White House Correspondents Dinner...Klay Thompson betrays Megan Thee Stallion, gets crucified on social media...Zöe Kravitz and Harry Styles get engaged...will the elite gene pool be...
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1031. Julian Zabalbeascoa
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is the author of the debut novel called , available now in trade paperback from Two Dollar Radio. It was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. A dual citizen of Spain and the US, Julian Zabalbeascoa was born and raised in California’s Central Valley. He earned his MFA in Creative Writing in Madrid from the University of New Orleans and taught at various institutions throughout California before moving to Boston, where he now teaches in the Honors College at the University of Massachusetts Lowell, leading annual study abroad programs to Donostia-San Sebastian, Havana, Madrid,...
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Federal Bureau of Inebriation
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Volume 87 of Brad & Mira For the Culture...Mira on how her entire life is 4/20...and how her paraplegic dog had surgery....her new author photo is imminent...Brad continues true crime obsession, finishes watching The Jinx...the turkey croissant conundrum...Angry Adam's midlife crisis podcast recommendation...Kash Patel is not a sloppy drunk who wets the bed, his lawyer says...Katy Perry did not rub her vagina on another celebrity's face in a nightclub, her publicist says...Clavicular fails in his attempt at fentanylmaxxing...RFK Jr. dead raccoon penis saga...& more... *** is...
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1030. Willy Vlautin
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is the author of the novel , available from Harper. It is the official April pick of the . Born and raised in Reno, Nevada, Willy Vlautin is the author of seven novels and is the founder of the bands Richmond Fontaine and The Delines. Vlautin started writing stories and songs at the age of eleven after receiving his first guitar. Inspired by songwriters and novelists Paul Kelly, Willie Nelson, Tom Waits, William Kennedy, Raymond Carver, and John Steinbeck, Vlautin works diligently to tell working class stories in his novels and songs. Vlautin has been the recipient of three Oregon Book...
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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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