Otherppl with Brad Listi
Episodes
Episode 100 — George Saunders
29 Aug 2012
Contributed by Lukas
George Saunders is today's guest. He's the bestselling author of several books, including CivilWarLand in Bad Decline, Pastoralia, and The Braindead...
99. Elizabeth Ellen
26 Aug 2012
Contributed by Lukas
Elizabeth Ellen is the author of the chapbook Before You She was a Pit Bull (Future Tense) and Fast Machine, a collection of her best work from the la...
Episode 98 — Pauls Toutonghi
22 Aug 2012
Contributed by Lukas
Pauls Toutonghi is today's guest. He's the author of two novels, the latest of which is called Evel Knievel Days, now available from Crown Books. Ki...
Episode 97 — Oksana Marafioti
19 Aug 2012
Contributed by Lukas
Oksana Marafioti is today's guest. She's the author of a new memoir called American Gypsy, now available from Farrar, Straus, & Giroux. Kirkus calls...
Episode 96 — Steve Roggenbuck
15 Aug 2012
Contributed by Lukas
Steve Roggenbuck is the guest. He is a traveling poet-slash-blogger whose latest poetry collection, Crunk Juice, is now available from Lief Books. ...
Episode 95 — Maria Semple
12 Aug 2012
Contributed by Lukas
Maria Semple is today's guest. For years she worked in television, writing for shows like Mad About You and Arrested Development. Then, in 2008, s...
Episode 94 — Karl Taro Greenfeld
08 Aug 2012
Contributed by Lukas
Karl Taro Greenfeld is the guest. He's a journalist who has written for The Nation, Time magazine, and Sports Illustrated. And he's the author of ...
93. Lidia Yuknavitch
05 Aug 2012
Contributed by Lukas
Lidia Yuknavitch is the author of the debut novel Dora: A Headcase (Hawthorne Books). Support indie booksellers! Also by Lidia Yuknavitch: The Chrono...
Episode 92 — Patrick Wensink
01 Aug 2012
Contributed by Lukas
Patrick Wensink is today's guest. His latest novel, Broken Piano for President, is now available from Lazy Fascist Press. It recently incited an unu...
91. Sheila Heti
29 Jul 2012
Contributed by Lukas
Sheila Heti is the author of How Should a Person Be? (Henry Holt). Heti is the author of several books of fiction and nonfiction, including Motherhoo...
Episode 90 — Christopher Beha
25 Jul 2012
Contributed by Lukas
Christopher Beha is the guest. He's an associate editor at Harper's magazine and the author of the debut novel What Happened to Sophie Wilder, now ava...
Episode 89 — Jess Walter
22 Jul 2012
Contributed by Lukas
Jess Walter is the guest. He's a National Book Award nominee and the author of several novels, the most recent of which is called Beautiful Ruins, n...
Episode 88 — Christopher Narozny
18 Jul 2012
Contributed by Lukas
Christopher Narozny is the guest. His debut novel, Jonah Man, is now available from Ig Publishing. Raves Patrick DeWitt, author of The Sisters Broth...
Episode 87 — Scott McClanahan
15 Jul 2012
Contributed by Lukas
Scott McClanahan is the guest. He is the author of several books, the latest of which is called The Complete Works of Scott McClanahan, Vol. 1, now ...
Episode 86 — Alexis Smith
11 Jul 2012
Contributed by Lukas
Alexis Smith is today's guest. Her debut novel, Glaciers, is now available from Tin House Books. Publishers Weekly, in a starred review, calls it .....
85. Seth Greenland
08 Jul 2012
Contributed by Lukas
Seth Greenland is the author of three novels, the most recent of which is The Angry Buddhist (Europa Editions). Also by Seth Greenland: A Kingdom of ...
Episode 84 — Elizabeth Collins
04 Jul 2012
Contributed by Lukas
Elizabeth Collins is today's guest. She's the editor of The Beautiful Anthology, a collection of essays, stories, and poems from TNB Books, all of w...
83. Joshua Henkin
01 Jul 2012
Contributed by Lukas
Joshua Henkin is the author of the novel The World Without You (Pantheon). His other books include Morningside Heights, Swimming Across the Hudson, ...
82. Jürgen Fauth
27 Jun 2012
Contributed by Lukas
Jürgen Fauth is the author of the novel KINO (Atticus Books). Fauth is also the author of Raves and The Ashakiran Tape. He lives in Berlin and Dakar...
Episode 81 — Kate Christensen
24 Jun 2012
Contributed by Lukas
Kate Christensen is today's guest (photo credit: Marion Ettlinger). She's the author of six novels, the fourth of which, The Great Man, won the 20...
Episode 80 — Erik Larson
20 Jun 2012
Contributed by Lukas
Today's episode of Other People is brought to you by Audible.com. And here's a special offer: Right now, listeners of this program can get a free ...
Episode 79 — Elizabeth Crane
17 Jun 2012
Contributed by Lukas
Elizabeth Crane is the guest. She's the author of three story collections—When the Messenger is Hot, All This Heavenly Glory, and You Must Be This...
78. Miles Klee
13 Jun 2012
Contributed by Lukas
Miles Klee is the author of a debut novel called Ivyland (O/R Books). Support indie bookstores! Shop here. Klee is also the author of the story colle...
77. Ron Rash
10 Jun 2012
Contributed by Lukas
Ron Rash is the author of the novel The Cove (Ecco). Rash is the author of six novels, five collections of short stories, and four collections of poe...
Episode 76 — Esi Edugyan
06 Jun 2012
Contributed by Lukas
Esi Edugyan is the guest. She's a Canadian author whose novel, Half-Blood Blues, was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize in 2011. It won the Sc...
75. Jerry Stahl
03 Jun 2012
Contributed by Lukas
Jerry Stahl is the author of several books, including the memoir Permanent Midnight, which was adapted into a film starring Ben Stiller. Stahl's ot...
Episode 74 — Jim Lynch
30 May 2012
Contributed by Lukas
Jim Lynch is today's guest. He's the author of three novels, the most recent of which is Truth Like the Sun, now available from Knopf. It was the ...
Episode 73 — Elna Baker
27 May 2012
Contributed by Lukas
Elna Baker is the guest. She's the author of memoir The New York Regional Mormon Singles Halloween Dance, now available from Penguin. She's also a...
72. Edgar Oliver
23 May 2012
Contributed by Lukas
Edgar Oliver is the guest. He is an American stage and film actor, a poet, a performance artist, and a playwright. His poetry collections include The...
71. Ben Fountain
20 May 2012
Contributed by Lukas
Ben Fountain is the author of the novel Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk (Ecco Press). He was born in Chapel Hill and grew up in the tobacco country o...
Episode 70 — Emily St. John Mandel
16 May 2012
Contributed by Lukas
Emily St. John Mandel is the guest. Her latest novel is called The Lola Quartet, and it is available now from Unbridled Books. Library Journal, in a...
Episode 69 — Etgar Keret
13 May 2012
Contributed by Lukas
Etgar Keret is the guest. He's the author of several books, the most recent of which is called Suddenly, a Knock on the Door, now available from Far...
68. David Rees
09 May 2012
Contributed by Lukas
David Rees is the author of How to Sharpen Pencils: A Practical & Theoretical Treatise on the Artisanal Craft of Pencil Sharpening for Writers, Artist...
67. Chloe Caldwell
06 May 2012
Contributed by Lukas
Chloe Caldwell is the author of the debut essay collection Legs Get Led Astray, now available from Future Tense Books. Caldwell is the author of th...
66. Kris D’Agostino
02 May 2012
Contributed by Lukas
Kris D'Agostino is the author of the debut novel The Sleepy Hollow Family Almanac (Algonquin). He is also the author of the novel The Antiques. *** ...
65. Matt Bell
29 Apr 2012
Contributed by Lukas
Matt Bell is the author of several chapbooks, a fiction collection called How They Were Found, and his most recent book is a novella called Cataclysm ...
Episode 64 — Noah Hawley
25 Apr 2012
Contributed by Lukas
Noah Hawley is the guest. He's the author of several books, the most recent of which is a novel called The Good Father, now available from Doubleday...
63. James Bernard Frost
22 Apr 2012
Contributed by Lukas
James Bernard Frost is the guest. He's the author of the novel A Very Minor Prophet, now available from Hawthorne Books. Frost is also the author of...
Episode 62 — Heidi Julavits
18 Apr 2012
Contributed by Lukas
Heidi Julavits is today's guest. She's the author of four books, the most recent of which is a novel called The Vanishers, now available from Double...
61. Rosecrans Baldwin
15 Apr 2012
Contributed by Lukas
Rosecrans Baldwin is a co-founder of The Morning News and the author of a memoir called Paris, I Love You But You're Bringing Me Down (FSG). Baldwin i...
Episode 60 — Kris Saknussemm
11 Apr 2012
Contributed by Lukas
Kris Saknussemm is the guest. His latest novel, Reverend America, is now available from Dark Coast Press. And the soundtrack to the book is now av...
Episode 59 — Amelia Gray
08 Apr 2012
Contributed by Lukas
Amelia Gray is the guest. She's the author of three works of fiction, the most recent of which is a novel called Threats, now available from Farrar,...
Episode 58 — Melissa Broder
04 Apr 2012
Contributed by Lukas
Melissa Broder is the guest. Her new poetry collection, entitled Meat Heart, is now available from Publishing Genius Press. And by day she is the ...
Episode 57 — Hari Kunzru
01 Apr 2012
Contributed by Lukas
Hari Kunzru is the guest. He's the author of four books, the most recent of which is a novel called Gods Without Men, now available from Knopf. Davi...
Episode 56 — Jessica Keener
28 Mar 2012
Contributed by Lukas
Jessica Keener is today's guest. Her debut novel, Night Swim, is now available from Fiction Studio Books. Pulitzer Prize-winner Jennifer Egan says: ...
Episode 55 — Catherine Chung
25 Mar 2012
Contributed by Lukas
Catherine Chung is the guest. Her debut novel, Forgotten Country, is now available from Riverhead Books. Booklist, in a starred review, raves: Chung...
Episode 54 — Jeff Ragsdale
21 Mar 2012
Contributed by Lukas
Jeff Ragsdale is the guest. He's the co-author, along with David Shields and Michael Logan, of Jeff, One Lonely Guy. Here's what Bret Easton Ellis, ...
Episode 53 — Sarah Manguso
18 Mar 2012
Contributed by Lukas
Sarah Manguso is today's guest. She's the author of the new book The Guardians: An Elegy, now available from Farrar, Straus, & Giroux. Megan O'Grady...
Episode 52 — Lysley Tenorio
14 Mar 2012
Contributed by Lukas
Lysley Tenorio is the guest. A winner of the Whiting Writer's Award and a former Stegner Fellow at Stanford University, he is the author of a debut ...
Episode 51 — Lauren Groff
11 Mar 2012
Contributed by Lukas
Lauren Groff is the guest. She's the author of the novel The Monsters of Templeton, the story collection Delicate Edible Birds, and most recently, a...
Episode 50 — Maud Newton
07 Mar 2012
Contributed by Lukas
Maud Newton is the guest. One of the web's most influential book bloggers. She also reviews books and is a former attorney who now works as an edi...
Episode 49 — Joe Blair
04 Mar 2012
Contributed by Lukas
Joe Blair is the guest. He's the author of the memoir By the Iowa Sea, now available from Scribner. Scott Spencer, author of Main in the Woods, rave...
Episode 48 — Ramona Ausubel
29 Feb 2012
Contributed by Lukas
Ramona Ausubel is the guest. Her debut novel, No One is Here Except All of Us, is now available in hardcover from Riverhead Press. And her short s...
Episode 47 — Ryan Boudinot
26 Feb 2012
Contributed by Lukas
Ryan Boudinot is the guest. He's the author of the new novel, Blueprints of the Afterlife, now available from Grove Press. John Schwartz, in a revie...
Episode 46 — Cheryl Strayed
22 Feb 2012
Contributed by Lukas
Cheryl Strayed is the guest. She's the author of the new memoir Wild, due out from Knopf on March 20, 2012. And she's also Sugar, the popular advi...
Episode 45 — Adam Wilson
19 Feb 2012
Contributed by Lukas
Adam Wilson is the guest. He's the author of the debut novel Flatscreen, now available from Harper Perennial. Raves Sam Lipsyte: "Adam Wilson is a...
Episode 44 — Eleanor Henderson
15 Feb 2012
Contributed by Lukas
Eleanor Henderson is the guest. She's the author of the debut novel Ten Thousand Saints, now available in trade paperback from Ecco. It was named ...
Episode 43 — Ben Marcus
12 Feb 2012
Contributed by Lukas
Ben Marcus is today's guest. He's the author of four books of fiction, the most recent of which is the critically acclaimed novel The Flame Alphabet...
Episode 42 — Ben Tanzer
08 Feb 2012
Contributed by Lukas
Ben Tanzer is the guest. He's the author of several books, including 99 Problems, You Can Make Him Like You, and My Father's House. He is also the...
Episode 41 — Claire Bidwell Smith
05 Feb 2012
Contributed by Lukas
Claire Bidwell Smith is the guest. She's the author of the memoir The Rules of Inheritance, available now from Hudson Street Press. Darin Strauss, t...
Episode 40 — Susan Sherman
01 Feb 2012
Contributed by Lukas
Susan Sherman is the guest. She's the author of the acclaimed debut novel The Little Russian, now available from Counterpoint Press. And she's als...
Episode 39 — Caroline Leavitt
29 Jan 2012
Contributed by Lukas
Caroline Leavitt is the guest. She's the author of nine novels, the most recent of which is called Pictures of You, a New York Times bestseller, now...
Episode 38 — Vanessa Veselka
25 Jan 2012
Contributed by Lukas
Vanessa Veselka is the guest. She's the author of the novel Zazen, now available from Red Lemonade. Says Publishers Weekly: "Veselka's prose is ch...
Episode 37 — Alan Heathcock
22 Jan 2012
Contributed by Lukas
The guest is Alan Heathcock, author of the critically acclaimed story collection Volt, now available from Graywolf Press. Volt was named a Best Boo...
Episode 36 — D.R. Haney
18 Jan 2012
Contributed by Lukas
D.R. Haney is the guest. He's the author of the novel Banned for Life (And/Or Press) and the nonfiction collection Subversia, now available from ...
Episode 35 — Tayari Jones
15 Jan 2012
Contributed by Lukas
The guest today is Tayari Jones, author of the novels Leaving Atlanta, The Untelling, and most recently, Silver Sparrow, now available from Algonquin ...
Episode 34 — Roxane Gay
11 Jan 2012
Contributed by Lukas
Roxane Gay is the guest. Her debut, Ayiti, is a collection of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry, and it is now available from Artistically Declined P...
Episode 33 — Rex Pickett
08 Jan 2012
Contributed by Lukas
Rex Pickett is the guest. He's the author of the novel Sideways, which was adapted for the screen by Alexander Payne and Jim Taylor. The movie wen...
Episode 32 — Cecil Castellucci
04 Jan 2012
Contributed by Lukas
The guest is Cecil Castellucci. She's the author of several novels for young adults, the most recent of which is First Day on Earth, now available f...
Episode 31 — Dana Spiotta
01 Jan 2012
Contributed by Lukas
Happy New Year, everybody! The guest today is Dana Spiotta. She's the author of three novels: Lightning Field, Eat the Document (a finalist for ...
Episode 30 — Jamal Joseph
28 Dec 2011
Contributed by Lukas
Today's guest is Jamal Joseph, author of the memoir Panther Baby, which details his coming of age within the Black Panther movement during the 1960s a...
Episode 29 — Ben Loory
25 Dec 2011
Contributed by Lukas
Ben Loory is the guest. He's the author of the debut collection Stories for Nighttime and Some for the Day, now available from Penguin. Long a fav...
Episode 28 — Edan Lepucki
21 Dec 2011
Contributed by Lukas
Edan Lepucki is the guest. She's the author of the novella If You're Not Yet Like Me, originally published by Flatmancrooked and now available from ...
Episode 27 — Barry Eisler
18 Dec 2011
Contributed by Lukas
The guest is Barry Eisler. He's the author of several bestselling thrillers, the most recent of which is The Detachment, which caused a stir in publ...
Episode 26 — David Shields
14 Dec 2011
Contributed by Lukas
David Shields is the guest. He's the author of twelve books, including Reality Hunger: A Manifesto (Knopf, 2010), which was named one of the best book...
Episode 25 — John Warner
11 Dec 2011
Contributed by Lukas
Today's guest is John Warner. He's the author of four books, most recently a debut novel called The Funny Man, available now from SoHo Press. And ...
Episode 24 — Charles Shields
07 Dec 2011
Contributed by Lukas
Charles Shields is the guest. He's the author of And So It Goes — Kurt Vonnegut: A Life, now available in hardcover from Henry Holt. Shields is ...
Episode 23 — Dennis Cooper
04 Dec 2011
Contributed by Lukas
Dennis Cooper is the guest. He's the author of several books, including The Sluts, God Jr., the five novels of the George Miles cycle, and, most rec...
Episode 22 — Darin Strauss
30 Nov 2011
Contributed by Lukas
Darin Strauss is today's guest. He is the author of three novels—Chang & Eng, The Real McCoy, and More Than It Hurts You. And his most recent bo...
Episode 21 — Janet Reitman
27 Nov 2011
Contributed by Lukas
Janet Reitman is the guest. She is a contributing editor at Rolling Stone magazine and the author of the bestselling Inside Scientology: The Story...
Episode 20 — Adam Novy
23 Nov 2011
Contributed by Lukas
Happy Thanksgiving, everybody! The guest is Adam Novy, author of the debut novel The Avian Gospels, available now from Short Flight / Long Drive Books...
Episode 19 — Elissa Schappell
20 Nov 2011
Contributed by Lukas
The guest is Elissa Schappell, author of the story collections Use Me (William Morrow), which was a finalist for the PEN/Hemingway Award, and the bran...
Episode 18 — Katie Arnoldi
16 Nov 2011
Contributed by Lukas
Today's guest: Katie Arnoldi, the bestselling author of three novels: Chemical Pink, The Wentworths, and Point Dume. This one's gonna blow your mi...
Episode 17 — Joshua Mohr
13 Nov 2011
Contributed by Lukas
Joshua Mohr is the guest. He's the author of three novels: Some Things That Meant the World to Me, Termite Parade, and, most recently, Damascus. ...
Episode 16 — Gina Frangello
09 Nov 2011
Contributed by Lukas
Gina Frangello is the guest. She is the critically acclaimed author of the novel My Sister's Continent (Chiasmus Press), the story collection Slut Lul...
Episode 15 — Jillian Lauren
06 Nov 2011
Contributed by Lukas
The guest is Jillian Lauren, author of the memoir Some Girls: My Life in a Harem, a New York Times bestseller, and the brand new novel Pretty, both av...
Episode 14 — Shann Ray
02 Nov 2011
Contributed by Lukas
The guest is Shann Ray, author of the critically acclaimed story collection American Masculine, now available from Graywolf Press. A very impressive g...
Episode 13 — Megan Boyle
30 Oct 2011
Contributed by Lukas
Megan Boyle is the guest. She's the author of selected unpublished blog posts of a mexican panda express employee, an unorthodox debut poetry collec...
Episode 12 — Diana Spechler
26 Oct 2011
Contributed by Lukas
A great conversation with Diana Spechler, author of the novels Who By Fire and Skinny, both from Harper Perennial. We get into it. Topics of conversat...
Episode 11 — Adam Levin
23 Oct 2011
Contributed by Lukas
Adam Levin is the guest. He's the author of The Instructions, a 1,030-page novel published by McSweeney's in late 2010 to great critical acclaim. "E...
Episode 10 — Alexander Maksik
19 Oct 2011
Contributed by Lukas
Alexander Maksik is the guest. An old buddy of mine, one of the original writers at The Nervous Breakdown, and a graduate of the Iowa Writers Wor...
Episode 9 — Steve Almond
16 Oct 2011
Contributed by Lukas
Such a great pleasure to have Steve Almond on the show. His new story collection, God Bless America, is due out from Lookout Books on October 25th. ...
Episode 8 — Victoria Patterson
12 Oct 2011
Contributed by Lukas
Okay then. Here we go. Episode 8 is here. It's ready. You can listen to it. Just push PLAY (below). Or subscribe for free at iTunes. Th...
Episode 7 — Blake Butler
09 Oct 2011
Contributed by Lukas
Blake Butler is the guest. (Just push PLAY below.) Or listen (and subscribe!), free of charge, at iTunes. He's the founder of the popular literary...
Episode 6 — Jessica Anya Blau
05 Oct 2011
Contributed by Lukas
I like this show a lot. I like the conversation. We get into stuff. Jess is a fantastic guest—funny as hell and open and honest and all the re...
Episode 5 — Greg Olear
02 Oct 2011
Contributed by Lukas
Episode 5 - Greg Olear. Here you go. Greg, in addition to being a terrific author, is the senior editor over at The Nervous Breakdown. He is th...
Episode 4 — Ron Currie, Jr.
29 Sep 2011
Contributed by Lukas
Here we have it: Episode 4 - Ron Currie, Jr. One of the brighter young lights in the literary firmament. One of those guys who deserves a huge aud...
Episode 3 — Emma Straub
26 Sep 2011
Contributed by Lukas
Episode 3 is here. Another sneak preview. (Just push PLAY below. Or listen for free via iTunes. And the podcast is also now available over at ...
Episode 2 — Melissa Febos
22 Sep 2011
Contributed by Lukas
And here we have the second episode. Melissa Febos, author of the memoir Whip Smart, which details the years she spent working as dominatrix in New...
Episode 1 — Jonathan Evison
14 Sep 2011
Contributed by Lukas
Okay. Finally. This is it. Episode 1 of Other People is here. It's done. It exists. It's live. It's real. We start out in style, with...