Best of 2025 - Part 2
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Today on the program, we highlight the top-5 most-listened-to episodes of 2025. Big thanks to everyone who guested and everyone who listens. And a very special thank you to everyone who supports the show Wishing you all a very happy 2026! *** 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 from dozens of today's most celebrated contemporary authors. Subscribe...
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Best of 2025 - Part 1
Otherppl with Brad Listi
Today on the program, we'll begin a countdown of the top 10 most-listened-to episodes of 2025. Please note that the countdown will unfold in two installments. Today, we'll be covering #10 through #6, and then on Christmas Day, a breakdown of the top 5 episodes of the year. Happy Holidays to all! Enjoy! *** 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 from dozens of...
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1015. Carla Kaplan
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is the author of (Harper Books). Kaplan is an award-winning professor and writer who holds the Stanton W. and Elisabeth K. Davis Distinguished Professorship in American Literature at Northeastern University. She has published seven books, including Zora Neale Hurston: A Life in Letters and Miss Anne in Harlem: The White Women of the Black Renaissance, both New York Times Notable Books. A recipient of Guggenheim and National Endowment for the Humanities “Public Scholar” fellowships, Kaplan has been a fellow in residence at the Cullman Center for Scholars...
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Excerpt from 'A Silent Treatment,' by Jeannie Vanasco
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Vol. 4 of Story Time, a new series on the program featuring an author reading aloud from her work. In this episode, reads from her new memoir , available from Tin House. Official December pick of the . Jeannie's other memoirs are 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...
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We're Already in Hell: Our Year in Review
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Volume 73 of Brad & Mira For the Culture...Christmas shopping confusion...Brad anesthetizes himself with Ken Burns documentaries...Brad's friend has a gun....Mira's dog almost dies?....might adopt a feral cat...all planets are in retrograde...the darkest weekend in memory....a cascade of terrible news...Alec and Hilaria, house-hunting in Jersey?...Bennie and the Jens...Dick Van Dyke turns 100....looking back on 2025...the year in review...and 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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1014. Susan Straight
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is the author of the novel , available from Counterpoint Press. Straight has published nine previous novels, including Mecca, A Million Nightingales, and Highwire Moon, and one memoir, In the Country of Women. She’s been a finalist for the Kirkus Prize, the Dayton Literary Peace Prize, the National Book Award, among other honors, and received the Lannan Prize, the O. Henry Award, the Edgar Award, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and the Robert Kirsch Award for lifetime achievement from the Los Angeles Times Book Prizes. Her fiction has been translated into ten languages....
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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...
info_outlineAja Gabel is the author of the novel Lightbreakers, available from Riverhead Books.
Gabel is also the author of the debut novel The Ensemble. Her prose can be found in The Cut, the Los Angeles Times, Oprah Daily, and elsewhere. Her short story “Little Fish” was adapted into a feature film, and she has written extensively for television. She lives in Los Angeles.
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