Otherppl with Brad Listi
A weekly podcast featuring in-depth interviews with today's leading writers. Launched in 2011. Hosted by Brad Listi.
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Erika Kirk Free Solos Trump Tower
01/29/2026
Erika Kirk Free Solos Trump Tower
Volume 77 of Brad & Mira For the Culture...Brad goes to the nursery...encounters an angry pit bull...confronts Mira about her unused Christmas gift...Mira rewatches Mad Men...Angry Adam returns with a vegeance...Kanye takes out a full-page ad in the Wall Street Journal...claims brain damage caused him to hate the Jews...Alex Honnold free solos a skyscraper...unleashes psychological trauma on millions....Erika Kirk begins another national tour...wants to 'make heaven crowded again'...& more... *** 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 your yearly subscription." 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 to . Email the show: letters [at] otherppl [dot] com The podcast is a , working to support local, independent bookstores.
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1020. Kathleen Boland
01/27/2026
1020. Kathleen Boland
is the author of the debut novel , now available from Viking. Boland’s fiction has appeared in Tin House, Conjunctions, Gulf Coast, and elsewhere, and she has received support from the Tin House Summer Workshop, the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, and the Vermont Studio Center. The former event director for Catapult/Counterpoint Press/Soft Skull Press, she earned her MFA from Louisiana State University, where she received the Robert Penn Warren Thesis Award. *** 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 your yearly subscription. 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 to . Email the show: letters [at] otherppl [dot] com The podcast is a , working to support local, independent bookstores.
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Emily Witt on ICE Raids, Protests, and the Battle for Minneapolis
01/27/2026
Emily Witt on ICE Raids, Protests, and the Battle for Minneapolis
is a staff writer for The New Yorker magazine and a native of Minneapolis. She has been reporting from the streets of her hometown over the past couple of weeks, covering the ICE raids, the killings of Rene Good and Alex Pretti, the non-fatal shooting of Julio Cesar Sosa-Celis, and the spirited citizen response by Minneapolitans. She recently wrote about it in a piece called with includes some excellent photos by Philip Cheung. Emily Witt is the author of (Farrar, Straus, & Giroux), (Columbia Global Reports 2017), and an award-winning memoir called (Pantheon). In addition to her work for The New Yorker, she has also written for n+1, The New York Times, GQ, the London Review of Books, and many other places. She has degrees from Brown, Columbia, and Cambridge, and was a Fulbright scholar in Mozambique. *** 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 your yearly subscription. 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 to . Email the show: letters [at] otherppl [dot] com The podcast is a , working to support local, independent bookstores.
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1019. Brenda Navarro and Megan McDowell
01/25/2026
1019. Brenda Navarro and Megan McDowell
is the author of the novel , available now in a new translation by , from Liveright Press. Official January 2026 pick of the . Brenda Navarro is one of the most critically acclaimed authors in the Spanish language. Eating Ashes won the Cálamo and CEGAL prizes and was a finalist for the Mario Vargas Llosa Biennial Novel Prize. Originally from Mexico, she lives in Madrid. Megan McDowell has translated works by Samanta Schweblin and Mariana Enriquez, among others. Her translations have won the National Book Award for Translated Literature and the English PEN award. *** 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 your yearly subscription. 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 to . Email the show: letters [at] otherppl [dot] com The podcast is a , working to support local, independent bookstores.
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Mira's Screaming Nude Father Scares Away Intruders
01/22/2026
Mira's Screaming Nude Father Scares Away Intruders
Volume 76 of Brad & Mira For the Culture...Brad's Liver King epiphany...the Indiana Hoosiers are awash in God's glory...Abella Danger's ESPN moment...Mira's sex worker friend group...Ralph Fiennes shows hog in The Bone Temple...Mira's dad experiences a home invasion in the nude...Angry Adam brings the mediocrity...The Beckham Family Feud...Posh Spice's grinding problem...the Glambot Shitstorm...Elordi and Robbie's Wuthering Heights soft-core marketing strategy...Happy 80th to Dolly Parton...& more... *** 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 your yearly subscription." 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 to . Email the show: letters [at] otherppl [dot] com The podcast is a , working to support local, independent bookstores.
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1018. Karl Ove Knausgaard
01/20/2026
1018. Karl Ove Knausgaard
is the author of the novel , the fourth book in his acclaimed Morning Star series. Available from Penguin Press. Translated from the Norwegian by Martin Aitken. Knausgaard’s first novel, Out of the World, was the first ever debut novel to win the Norwegian Critics’ Prize, and his second, A Time for Everything, was longlisted for the 2010 International Dublin Literary Award. The My Struggle cycle of novels has been heralded as a masterpiece wherever it has appeared. His work is published in thirty-five languages.Martin Aitken’s translations of Scandinavian literature number some thirty-five books. His work has appeared on the shortlists of the 2017 International Dublin Literary Award and the 2018 U.S. National Book Award, as well as the 2021 International Booker Prize. He received the PEN America Translation Prize in 2019. *** 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 your yearly subscription. 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 to . Email the show: letters [at] otherppl [dot] com The podcast is a , working to support local, independent bookstores.
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We Have Been Snubbed by the Golden Globes
01/15/2026
We Have Been Snubbed by the Golden Globes
Volume 75 of Brad & Mira For the Culture...Brad's farmer's market dilemma...Mira believes Bob Weir was murdered by John Mayer...lobbies Brad to watch The Traitors...Angry Adam returns...Beyonce never talks about money?....Spencer Pratt for mayor....Cher goes for Dax Shepard's jugular...Golden Globes recap...Brad's Fashion Corner...etc. *** 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 your yearly subscription." 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 to . Email the show: letters [at] otherppl [dot] com The podcast is a , working to support local, independent bookstores.
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What Needs to Change in the Publishing Industry
01/13/2026
What Needs to Change in the Publishing Industry
Kathleen Schmidt returns to the program to discuss the current state of the publishing industry—and what needs to change. As the Founder and CEO of , Kathleen is a well-respected voice in book publishing with in-depth experience in all aspects of the industry, including as a publicist, literary agent, acquisitions editor, and ghostwriter. Her career encompasses 30 years of creating and directing impactful and strategic global media, marketing, and branding campaigns for politicians, A-List celebrities, athletes, and high-profile personalities. To date, she has worked on 50 New York Times bestsellers, and her clients have continuously appeared in top-tier national print, broadcast, and radio outlets such as The Today Show, Good Morning America, Vogue, Elle, Financial Times, Vanity Fair, GQ, and Sirius XM. Schmidt, who learned to read when she was four, comes from a family of voracious readers. Inspired by the legendary book editor Jackie Kennedy Onassis, she purposely focused on obtaining a position in book publishing. , shares her wealth of inside knowledge that she hopes will help demystify the book industry. *** 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 your yearly subscription. 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 to . Email the show: letters [at] otherppl [dot] com The podcast is a , working to support local, independent bookstores.
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REPLAY: Tim O'Brien on America, War, Pacifism, Fatherhood, Death, and the Illusion of Self
01/11/2026
REPLAY: Tim O'Brien on America, War, Pacifism, Fatherhood, Death, and the Illusion of Self
Today on the program, a trip into the archive and a return to , my conversation with 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. *** is a weekly literary podcast featuring in-depth interviews with today's leading writers. Available where podcasts are available: , , , , , etc. Subscribe to . Email the show: letters [at] otherppl [dot] com The podcast is a , working to support local, independent bookstores.
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Toxic Celebrity Mom Group
01/08/2026
Toxic Celebrity Mom Group
Volume 74 of Brad & Mira For the Culture...we're so back, baby.......Brad and Mira review their holidays...Brad threw his back out on Christmas Eve trying to do a tai-chi workout...Mira saw Marty Supreme and got a terrible UTI...the annual celebrity infestation of St. Bart's...Trump bombs Venezuela, kidnaps Maduro...the Bari Weiss destruction of CBS News continues apace...Ashley Tisdale reveals 'toxic celebrity mom group' drama in New York magazine...and more.... *** 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 your yearly subscription." 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 to . Email the show: letters [at] otherppl [dot] com The podcast is a , working to support local, independent bookstores.
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1017. Gerald Howard on Malcolm Cowley and the Triumph of American Literature
01/06/2026
1017. Gerald Howard on Malcolm Cowley and the Triumph of American Literature
is the author of , available from Penguin Press. Howard retired in 2021 as executive editor and vice president of Doubleday Books. He received the 2009 Maxwell E. Perkins Award for Distinguished Achievement in the Field of Fiction and has worked over the years with authors such as Paul Auster, Don DeLillo, David Foster Wallace, Debby Applegate, Hanya Yanagihara, Pat Barker, Sean Wilentz, and Bill Bryson. Howard’s essays and reviews have appeared in Bookforum, The New York Times Book Review, The American Scholar, London Review of Books, n+1, Slate, and other publications. *** 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 your yearly subscription. 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 to . Email the show: letters [at] otherppl [dot] com The podcast is a , working to support local, independent bookstores.
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1016. Jim Newton on Jerry Garcia, the Grateful Dead, and the American Counterculture
01/04/2026
1016. Jim Newton on Jerry Garcia, the Grateful Dead, and the American Counterculture
is the author of , available from Random House. Newton is a journalist, teacher, and author of Justice for All, Eisenhower, Worthy Fights, and Man of Tomorrow. He was at the Los Angeles Times for twenty-five years as a reporter, bureau chief, editorial page editor, columnist, and editor at large. He lives in Pasadena, California, and teaches at UCLA, where he founded and edits the award-winning public affairs magazine Blueprint. *** 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 to . Email the show: letters [at] otherppl [dot] com The podcast is a , working to support local, independent bookstores.
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Best of 2025 - Part 2
12/25/2025
Best of 2025 - Part 2
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 to . Email the show: letters [at] otherppl [dot] com The podcast is a , working to support local, independent bookstores.
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Best of 2025 - Part 1
12/23/2025
Best of 2025 - Part 1
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 today's most celebrated contemporary authors. Subscribe to . Email the show: letters [at] otherppl [dot] com The podcast is a , working to support local, independent bookstores.
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1015. Carla Kaplan
12/21/2025
1015. Carla Kaplan
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 and Writers, the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, and the W. E. B. Du Bois Research Institute; is a fellow of the Society of American Historians; and serves on the board of Biographers International. She divides her time between Boston and Cape Cod. *** 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 your yearly subscription." 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 to . Email the show: letters [at] otherppl [dot] com The podcast is a , working to support local, independent bookstores.
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Excerpt from 'A Silent Treatment,' by Jeannie Vanasco
12/20/2025
Excerpt from 'A Silent Treatment,' by Jeannie Vanasco
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 Ulysses, and use the code OTHERPPL at checkout to get 25% off the first year of your yearly subscription." 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 to . Email the show: letters [at] otherppl [dot] com The podcast is a , working to support local, independent bookstores.
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We're Already in Hell: Our Year in Review
12/18/2025
We're Already in Hell: Our Year in Review
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 to to download Ulysses, and use the code OTHERPPL at checkout to get 25% off the first year of your yearly subscription." 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 to . Email the show: letters [at] otherppl [dot] com The podcast is a , working to support local, independent bookstores.
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1014. Susan Straight
12/16/2025
1014. Susan Straight
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. She was born in Riverside, California, where she lives with her family. *** 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 your yearly subscription." 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 to . Email the show: letters [at] otherppl [dot] com The podcast is a , working to support local, independent bookstores.
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1013. Jeannie Vanasco
12/14/2025
1013. Jeannie Vanasco
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 of your yearly subscription." 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 to . Email the show: letters [at] otherppl [dot] com The podcast is a , working to support local, independent bookstores.
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Excerpt from 'Only Way Out,' by Tod Goldberg
12/13/2025
Excerpt from 'Only Way Out,' by Tod Goldberg
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 professor of creative writing at the University of California, Riverside, where he founded and directs the low-residency MFA program in creative writing and writing for the performing 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 first year of your yearly subscription." 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 to . Email the show: letters [at] otherppl [dot] com The podcast is a , working to support local, independent bookstores.
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Don't Take Your Shoes Off
12/11/2025
Don't Take Your Shoes Off
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 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 your yearly subscription." 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 to . Email the show: letters [at] otherppl [dot] com The podcast is a , working to support local, independent bookstores.
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1012. Jordan Castro
12/09/2025
1012. Jordan Castro
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 first year of your yearly subscription." 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 to . Email the show: letters [at] otherppl [dot] com The podcast is a , working to support local, independent bookstores.
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1011. Lauren Rothery
12/07/2025
1011. Lauren Rothery
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 from dozens of today's most celebrated contemporary authors. Subscribe to . Email the show: letters [at] otherppl [dot] com The podcast is a , working to support local, independent bookstores.
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Excerpt from 'Empire of Orgasm,' by Ellen Huet
12/06/2025
Excerpt from 'Empire of Orgasm,' by Ellen Huet
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 San Francisco Bay Area. *** 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 to . Email the show: letters [at] otherppl [dot] com The podcast is a , working to support local, independent bookstores.
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Kevin Spacey: Live from the Congo
12/04/2025
Kevin Spacey: Live from the Congo
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 DeepDive. 50+ hours of never-before-heard insight, inspiration, and instruction from dozens of today's most celebrated contemporary authors. Subscribe to . Email the show: letters [at] otherppl [dot] com The podcast is a , working to support local, independent bookstores.
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1010. Laura K. Field
12/02/2025
1010. Laura K. Field
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. 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 to . Email the show: letters [at] otherppl [dot] com The podcast is a , working to support local, independent bookstores.
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1009. Tod Goldberg
11/30/2025
1009. Tod Goldberg
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 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 professor of creative writing at the University of California, Riverside, where he founded and directs the low-residency MFA program in creative writing and writing for the performing arts. For more information, visit . 📸 Ethan Kaminksy *** is a weekly podcast featuring in-depth interviews with today's leading writers. This week's episode is brought to you by Aura Frames. Visit and get $45 off Aura’s best-selling Carver Mat frames—named #1 by Wirecutter—by using promo code OTHERPPL at checkout. 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 to . Email the show: letters [at] otherppl [dot] com The podcast is a , working to support local, independent bookstores.
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Excerpt from 'Open Wide,' by Jessica Gross
11/29/2025
Excerpt from 'Open Wide,' by Jessica Gross
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 the Los Angeles Review of Books, among other publications. She has taught writing at The New School and Texas Tech University and currently lives in West Texas. *** 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 to . Email the show: letters [at] otherppl [dot] com The podcast is a , working to support local, independent bookstores.
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A Badussy Thanksgiving
11/27/2025
A Badussy Thanksgiving
Volume 70 of Brad & Mira For the Culture...Brad goes to a Grateful Drag concert...the aliens are here....Mira is thankful for weed...Kate Beckinsale's daughter's boyfriend laid two eggs....Tara Reid wheeled out of Chicago hotel bar...claims she was roofied...Kevin Spacey wants you to know he's not actually homeless...Ozempic is the only good thing about the 21st century...buried penis syndrome no more...Jesus Penis...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 DeepDive. 50+ hours of never-before-heard insight, inspiration, and instruction from dozens of today's most celebrated contemporary authors. Subscribe to . Email the show: letters [at] otherppl [dot] com The podcast is a , working to support local, independent bookstores.
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1008. Ellen Huet
11/25/2025
1008. Ellen Huet
is the author of , available 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 San Francisco Bay Area. *** is a weekly podcast featuring in-depth interviews with today's leading writers. This week's episode is brought to you by Aura Frames. Visit and get $45 off Aura’s best-selling Carver Mat frames—named #1 by Wirecutter—by using promo code OTHERPPL at checkout. 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 to . Email the show: letters [at] otherppl [dot] com The podcast is a , working to support local, independent bookstores.
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