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995. Jade Chang

07 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Jade Chang is the author of the novel What a Time to Be Alive, available from Ecco Books.  Chang’s debut novel, The Wangs vs. the World, won the ...

994. Melissa Febos

05 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Melissa Febos is the author of The Dry Season: A Memoir of Pleasure in a Year Without Sex, available from Knopf. Febos is the national bestselling au...

Brad Bunny

02 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Volume 62 of Brad & Mira For the Culture...prayers for Dolly...Mira experiences personal triumph in a Soul Cycle class...the unified theory of protei...

993. Jason Diamond

30 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Jason Diamond is the author of the debut novel Kaplan's Plot, available from Flatiron Books. Diamond is the author of Searching for John Hughes, ...

Special Episode: DeepDive Sneak Preview!

28 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Today’s episode is a special preview of How to Write Autobiographical Fiction, a brand-new DeepDive course featuring acclaimed novelist Hannah Pit...

Dancing with the Stars on 300mg of THC

25 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Volume 61 of Brad & Mira For the Culture...Brad & Mira do field work...adventures in Television City...Mira takes a hero dose of THC...Hilaria compet...

992. Leigh Stein

23 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Leigh Stein is the author of the novel If You're Seeing This, It's Meant for You, a national bestseller available from Ballantine Books. Leigh is ...

Kyle Spencer on the Dangers of Political Extremism, the Tragedy of Charlie Kirk, and the Future of American Democracy

21 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Kyle Spencer is a journalist and the author of Raising Them Right: The Untold Story of America’s Ultraconservative Youth Movement and Its Plot for P...

The Everything is Bad Episode

18 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Volume 60 of Brad & Mira For the Culture...The Emmys (didn't watch them)...Charlie Sheen's skeletons....Mira's adventures at a drag brunch...Angry Ad...

991. Elaine Hsieh Chou

16 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Elaine Hsieh Chou is the author of the debut story collection Where Are You Really From, available from Penguin Press. Official September 2025 pick of...

Rachel, 32, Director of Content and Engagement

14 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Character Study, Vol. 17. 'Character Studies' is a new series on the podcast featuring interviews with 'civilians'—ordinary adult humans of all ages...

The Dawn of the Sheenaissance

11 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Volume 59 of Brad & Mira For the Culture...Trump's horny artwork in the terrifying Epstein birthday book....Angry Adam repeatedly punching his dashbo...

990. Hala Alyan

09 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Hala Alyan is the author of the debut memoir I'll Tell You When I'm Home, available from Avid Reader Press. Alyan is the author of the novels Salt H...

Jennifer Pastiloff on Grief, Creativity, Shame Loss, Sobriety, and Connection

07 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Jennifer Pastiloff is the author of Proof of Life: Let Go, Let Love, and Stop Looking for Permission to Live Your Life, available from Dutton. Pastil...

The Legend of Young Beaver

04 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Volume 58 of Brad & Mira For the Culture...Brad and Mira go to karaoke, don't speak to one another, worry about communicable disease...Angry Adam on ...

989. Susannah Cahalan

02 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Susannah Cahalan is the author of The Acid Queen: The Psychedelic Life and Counterculture Rebellion of Rosemary Woodruff Leary (Viking). Cahalan is a...

988. Sylvia Jones

31 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Sylvia Jones is the author of the debut poetry collection Television Fathers, available from Meekling Books. Jones is an adjunct professor at George...

Ken Burns Presents 'The Swiftie Civil War'

28 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Volume 57 of Brad & Mira For the Culture...Brad leans on A.I. for emotional validation...Angry Adam weighs in...Mira's Grandpasaurus has a massive st...

987. Lydi Conklin

26 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Lydi Conklin is the author of the debut novel Songs of No Provenance, available from Catapult Press. It was longlisted for the Center for Fiction Firs...

986. Donald Berger

24 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Donald Berger is the author of the poetry collection The Rose of Maine, available from SurVision Books. Winner of the 2024 James Tate International Po...

Billionaire Death Party

21 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Volume 56 of Brad & Mira For the Culture...Mira's hummingbird death angel friend...a letter from a listener who got run over by a car...Angry Adam re...

985. Chelsea Bieker

19 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Chelsea Bieker is the author of the novel Madwoman, now available in trade paperback wherever books are sold.  Bieker's first novel, Godshot, wa...

A Conversation with a Witch: Amanda Yates Garcia on Empire, Resistance, Contemporary Culture, and Radical Enchantment

17 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

A special Sunday episode featuring Amanda Yates Garcia, also known as The Oracle of Los Angeles. Amanda is a writer, socially engaged artist, publi...

Our Lives Are Brilliant, Our Love is Pure

14 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Volume 55 of Brad & Mira For the Culture...Brad's new company, DeepDive, launches, he is now a startup founder...Brad takes his family to see The Nak...

984. Michael Clune

12 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Michael Clune is the author of the debut novel Pan, available from Penguin Press. It is the official August 2025 pick of the Otherppl Book Club. Clu...

983. Jane Borden

10 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Jane Borden is the author of Cults Like Us: Why Doomsday Thinking Drives America, available from Atria. Jane's work as a culture journalist has been...

Mira is Hallucinating Bugs

07 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Volume 54 of Brad & Mira For the Culture...Brad wanders the hills, contemplating mountain lions and death...Mira's ant infestation...Mira in retrogra...

982. Shelby Hinte

05 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Shelby Hinte is the author of the debut novel Howling Women, available from Leftover Books. Hinte is the Senior Editor of Write or Die Magazine and ...

981. Claire Jia

03 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Claire Jia is the author of the debut novel Wanting, available from Tin House. It was the official July pick of the Otherppl Book Club. Jia is a wri...

It's Hot Down Here, Brother

31 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Volume 53 of Brad & Mira For the Culture...Brad approaches 50...the Tesla Diner attacks a woman...the obsession with tall...the triumph of Billy Joel...

980. Hannah Pittard

29 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Hannah Pittard is the author of the novel If You Love It, Let It Kill You, available from Henry Holt & Co. Pittard is the author of the novels List...

979. Ken Baumann

27 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Ken Baumann is the author of the novella The Christian: A Comedy. Baumann is the author of seven novels and three works of nonfiction. After working...

52 Weeks of Brad & Mira

24 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Volume 52 of Brad & Mira For the Culture...a year of podcasting...Mira's longest run of continuous employment...Mira vs. diarrhea...the Tesla Diner o...

978. Megan Abbott

22 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Megan Abbott is the author of the novel El Dorado Drive, available from G. P. Putnam's Sons. Abbott is the Edgar award-winning author of eleven crim...

Exploring Hybrid Literary Forms

20 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

A new Craftwork conversation with Matthew Clark Davison and Alice LaPlante, co-authors of The Lab: Experiments in Writing Across Genre, available from...

Slap Me and Call Me Mommy

17 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Volume 51 of Brad & Mira For the Culture...Brad's life as a CEO...both Brad and Mira are experiencing burnout and Mira has been burned out since age ...

977. Kashana Cauley

15 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Kashana Cauley is the author of the novel The Payback, available from Atria Books. Cauley's other novel is calledThe Survivalists, which was named a ...

Special Episode: DeepDive Sneak Preview!

13 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In today's episode, I'm sharing an exclusive sneak preview of How to Write a Novel, the debut audio course from my new company, DeepDive, which will b...

Seventy Hot Dogs in Ten Minutes

10 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Volume 50 of Brad & Mira For the Culture...Mira experiences back pain, takes 100mg of THC...Brad recaps his chaotic vacation...the shittiest 4th of J...

976. Jessa Crispin

08 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Jessa Crispin is the author of What Is Wrong With Men: Patriarchy, The Crisis of Masculinity, and How (Of Course) Michael Douglas Films Explain Everyt...

975. Geoff Dyer

06 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Geoff Dyer is the author of the memoir Homework, available from Farrar, Straus, & Giroux.  Dyer's other books include The Last Days of Roger Federe...

I Will Show You My Body

03 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Volume 49 of Brad & Mira For the Culture...Mira accidentally names her PTSD "Darrell"...a complete recap of the Bezos-Sanchez wedding in Venice, Ital...

974. Lynn Steger Strong

01 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Lynn Steger Strong is the author of the novel The Float Test, available from Mariner Books. Lynn's other novels include Flight, Want, and Hold Sti...

Kirsten, 40, Pen and Ink Artist

29 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Character Study, Vol. 16. 'Character Studies' is a new series on the podcast featuring interviews with 'civilians'—ordinary adult humans of all ages...

Foam Party with My New Stepdad

26 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Volume 48 of Brad & Mira For the Culture...fast zombies with erect penises...Jeff and Lauren take Venice...foam parties, Gatsby parties, the ritual h...

973. Jess Walter

24 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Jess Walter is the author of the novel So Far Gone, available from Harper Books. It is the official June pick of the Otherppl Book Club. Walter is ...

Rebecca, 35, Human Being

22 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Character Study, Vol. 15. 'Character Studies' is a new series on the podcast featuring interviews with 'civilians'—ordinary adult humans of all ages...

The Little Horny Pop Star Who Could

19 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Volume 47 of Brad & Mira For the Culture. In this sleep-deprived yet fully charged episode, Brad and Mira dive into a chaotic mix of meditation-indu...

972. S. A. Cosby

17 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

S. A. Cosby is the author of the novel King of Ashes, available from Flatiron Books. Cosby is a New York Times bestselling writer from southeaste...

David, 44, Painter

15 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Character Study, Vol. 14. 'Character Studies' is a new series on the podcast featuring interviews with 'civilians'—ordinary adult humans of all ages...

Cazando Esteban

12 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Volume 46 of Brad & Mira For the Culture...the Gestapo police state insanity in LA...hunting a nude and terrified Stephen...Katie Perry's album fail ...

971. Claire Hoffman

10 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Claire Hoffman is the author of Sister, Sinner: The Miraculous Life and Mysterious Disappearance of Aimee Semple McPherson, available from Farrar, Str...

John, 36, Graduate Student

08 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Character Study, Vol. 13. 'Character Studies' is a new series on the podcast featuring interviews with 'civilians'—ordinary adult humans of all ages...

For Sale: Knicks Lingerie, Never Worn

05 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Volume 45 of Brad & Mira For the Culture...Mira's dog and its bloody ass...Mira does LSD in Las Vegas and forgets how to play blackjack...the Pacers ...

970. Andrew Lipstein

03 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Andrew Lipstein is the author of the novel Something Rotten, available from Farrar, Straus, & Giroux. Lipstein's other novels are Last Resort (2022...

Sam, 40, Filmmaker and Visual Strategist

01 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Character Study, Vol. 12. 'Character Studies' is a new series on the podcast featuring interviews with 'civilians'—ordinary adult humans of all ages...

969. Vauhini Vara

29 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Vauhini Vara is the author of Searches: Selfhood in the Digital Age, available from Pantheon Books. Vara has been a reporter and editor for The Atl...

968. Kate Folk

27 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Kate Folk is the author of the debut novel Sky Daddy, available from Random House. Folk is also the author of the debut short story collection Out ...

967. J. Robert Lennon

25 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

J. Robert Lennon is the author of the novel Buzz Kill, available from Mulholland Books. It is the official May pick of the Otherppl Book Club. Lenno...

The Prostate Episode

22 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Volume 44 of Brad & Mira For the Culture...Brad learns what a prostate is...The Punisher takes the stand in the Diddy trial...the crucifixion of Kevi...

966. Honor Jones

20 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Honor Jones is the author of the debut novel Sleep, available from Riverhead Books. Jones is a senior editor at The Atlantic, and previously at Th...

Kalen, 47, Blue Man Group Performer

18 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Character Study, Vol. 11. 'Character Studies' is a new series on the podcast featuring interviews with 'civilians'—ordinary adult humans of all ages...

Rosanna Norton 4Ever

15 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Volume 43 of Brad & Mira For the Culture...remembering Mira's amazing grandmother, Rosanna Norton, who once bore witness to Peter Fonda's enormous ge...

965. Ocean Vuong

13 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Ocean Vuong is the author of the novel The Emperor of Gladness, available from Penguin Press. Ocean's other books include the critically acclaimed po...

Vanessa, Age??, Vegan Activist

11 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Character Study, Vol. 10. 'Character Studies' is a new series on the podcast featuring interviews with 'civilians'—ordinary adult humans of all ages...

964. Katie Kitamura

08 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Katie Kitamura is the author of the novel Audition, available from Riverhead Books. Kitamura's other novels include A Separation and Intimacies, ...

963. Jonathan Evison

06 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Jonathan Evison is the author of the novel The Heart of Winter, available from Dutton. Evison's other novels include Again and Again; Small World; ...

Tyler, 38, Social Worker

04 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Character Study, Vol. 9. 'Character Studies' is a new series on the podcast featuring interviews with 'civilians'—ordinary adult humans of all ages ...

A Pep Talk for Writers, with Maggie Smith

01 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

A new Craftwork conversation with Maggie Smith, bestselling author of Dear Writer: Pep Talks & Practical Advice for the Creative Life, available from ...

How to Make a Living As a Writer

29 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

A new Craftwork conversation about the business of being a writer with Jane Friedman. Her book, The Business of Being a Writer, is now available in an...

Nancy, 56, Mother and Artist

27 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Character Study, Vol. 8. 'Character Studies' is a new series on the podcast featuring interviews with 'civilians'—ordinary adult humans of all ages ...

Dead Pope Society

24 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Volume 42 of Brad & Mira For the Culture...muy triste about no more Baldwins...Did Pope Frances kill himself after meeting J.D. Vance???....Mira laun...

962. Stephen Graham Jones

22 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Stephen Graham Jones is the New York Times bestselling author of the novel The Buffalo Hunter Hunter, available from Simon & Schuster. Jones is the ...

Bonny, 61, Geospatial Scientist

20 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Character Study, Vol. 7. 'Character Studies' is a new series on the podcast featuring interviews with 'civilians'—ordinary adult humans of all ages ...

The Last Temptation of The Baldwins

17 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Volume 41 of Brad & Mira For the Culture...Mira's disastrous Seder experience...Brad goes karaoke singing for the first time....Brad's friend Adam ca...

961. Emma Pattee

15 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Emma Pattee is the author of the debut novel Tilt, available from Marysue Rucci Books. It is the official April 2025 pick of the Otherppl Book Club. ...

Chase, 28, Musician

13 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Character Study, Vol. 6. 'Character Studies' is a new series on the podcast featuring interviews with 'civilians'—ordinary adult humans of all ages ...

This is a Total Disaster

10 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Volume 40 of Brad & Mira For the Culture...The Resurrection of Alec...Hilaria can't parallel park...Carmen gets a book deal...Elton John and Madonna ...

960. Sonya Walger

08 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Sonya Walger is the author of the debut novel Lion, available from New York Review Books. Walger is a British-American actress, writer and podcaste...

Dave, 49, Entrepreneur

06 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Character Study, Vol. 5. 'Character Studies' is a new series on the podcast featuring interviews with 'civilians'—ordinary adult humans of all ages ...

Gail the Lesbian Dog Trainer with Magnificent Hair

03 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Volume 39 of Brad & Mira For the Culture...The Baldwins' neglected dogs defecate on Alec's $40,000 hand-woven Parisian rug...Hilaria demands that Ale...

959. Sanjena Sathian

01 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Sanjena Sathian is the author of the novel Goddess Complex, available from Penguin Press. Sathian is the author of the critically acclaimed novel G...

Jessa, 25, Packaging and E-Commerce Designer

30 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Character Study, Vol. 4. 'Character Studies' is a new series on the podcast featuring interviews with 'civilians'—ordinary adult humans of all ages ...

'Future Nostalgia' is a Dance Pop Masterpiece

27 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Volume 38 of Brad & Mira For the Culture...The Baldwins make their best episode yet...Hilaria wears a sexy mini-dress when she goes to meet her stepd...

958. Paul Lisicky

25 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Paul Lisicky is the author of the memoir Song So Wild and Blue: A Life with the Music of Joni Mitchell, available from HarperOne. Lisicky is the aut...

Michael, 54, Housing Entrepreneur

23 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Character Study, Vol. 3. 'Character Studies' is a new series on the podcast featuring interviews with 'civilians'—ordinary adult humans of all ages ...

There's Cheese on the Range Rover

20 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Volume 37 of Brad & Mira For the Culture...Alec in therapy...Hilaria in fishnets...Kanye copyrights his child's name...Kim gets medieval...Tracy Morg...

957. Sarah Chihaya

18 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Sarah Chihaya is the author of the memoir Bibliophobia, available from Random House. It is the official March 2025 pick of the Otherppl Book Club. C...

Cody, 24, Commercial Cleaner

16 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Character Study, Vol. 2. 'Character Studies' is a new series on the podcast featuring interviews with 'civilians'—ordinary adult humans of all ages ...

Miserable Middle-Aged Men

13 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Volume 36 of Brad & Mira For the Culture...the crushingly sad last days of Gene Hackman that are so depressing it makes you feel like Alec Baldwin ju...

956. Lidia Yuknavitch

11 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Lidia Yuknavitch is the author of a new memoir called Reading the Waves, available from Riverhead Books. Yuknavitch is the nationally bestselling au...

Sophia, 34, Customer Success Manager

09 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Character Study, Vol. 1. This is a new series on the podcast, featuring interviews with 'civilians'—ordinary adult humans of all ages and background...

Getting Into a Fistfight in West Hollywood at Age 72

06 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Volume 35 of Brad & Mira For the Culture...Mira moves...The Baldwins string us along...Oscars recap and Brad's Fashion Corner...what the hell happene...

955. Curtis Sittenfeld

04 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Curtis Sittenfeld is the author of the story collection Show Don't Tell, available from Random House. Sittenfeld’s New York Times bestselling bo...

Brad and Mira OnlyFans

27 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Volume 34 of Brad & Mira For the Culture...recapping the debut of The Baldwins...Timmy-Tim wants to be great...corpse on a plane...the Sheen family O...

954. Virginia Feito

25 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Virginia Feito is the author of the novel Victorian Psycho, available from Liveright Publishing. It is the official February pick of the Otherppl Book...

Special Announcement

23 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

A quick Sunday episode wherein I share some exciting news: Later this year, I will be launching a new company called DeepDive, which specializes in th...

How to Train Your Dragon

20 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Volume 33 of Brad & Mira For the Culture...SNL and Brad both turn 50 this year...Brad's Fashion Corner...Kevin Spacey lashes out...Taylor Swift is no...

953. Gabrielle Bates

18 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Gabrielle Bates is the author of the poetry collection Judas Goat, available from Tin House. Bates's poetry has appeared in The New Yorker, Poetry,...

Eat Your Heart Out

13 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Volume 32 of Brad & Mira For the Culture...listener mail...Armie Hammer out here eating organs...Lauren Boebert and Kid Rock in a limousine...Taylor ...