Otherppl with Brad Listi

787. Melissa Chadburn

24 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Melissa Chadburn is the author of the debut novel A Tiny Upward Shove, available from Farrar, Straus, & Giroux. Chadburn's writing has appeared in Th...

786. Nada Alic

17 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Nada Alic is the author of the debut story collection Bad Thoughts, available from Vintage. It is the official August pick of The Nervous Breakdown Bo...

785. Ingrid Rojas Contreras

10 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Ingrid Rojas Contreras is the author of the memoir The Man Who Could Move Clouds, available from Doubleday. Contreras was born and raised in Bogotá, ...

784. Lynne Tillman

03 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Lynne Tillman is the author of Mothercare: On Obligation, Love, Death, and Ambivalence, available from Soft Skull. Tillman is a novelist, short story...

783. Isaac Fitzgerald

27 Jul 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Isaac Fitzgerald is the author of the memoir-in-essays Dirtbag, Massachusetts: A Confessional, available from Bloomsbury. Fitzgerald appears frequent...

782. David Koepp

20 Jul 2022

Contributed by Lukas

David Koepp is the author of the novel Aurora, available from Harper. It is the official July pick of the TNB Book Club. Koepp has written or co-writt...

781. Teddy Wayne

13 Jul 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Teddy Wayne is the author of the novel The Great Man Theory, available from Bloomsbury. Wayne's other novels include Apartment, Loner, The Love Song o...

780. Chantal V. Johnson

06 Jul 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Chantal V. Johnson is the author of the debut novel Post-Traumatic, available from Little, Brown. Post-Traumatic was named a Best Debut Novel of 2022 ...

779. Austin Kleon

29 Jun 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Austin Kleon is the New York Times bestselling author of a trilogy of books on creativity in the digital age, including Steal Like an Artist—now cel...

778. Marcy Dermansky

22 Jun 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Marcy Dermansky is the author of the novel Hurricane Girl, available from Knopf. Dermansky is the author of the critically acclaimed novels Very Nic...

777. Sloane Crosley

15 Jun 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Sloane Crosley is the author of the novel Cult Classic, available from MCD/FSG. Crosley is the author of The New York Times bestselling essay collec...

776. Abbigail Nguyen Rosewood

08 Jun 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Abbigail Nguyen Rosewood is the author of the novel Constellations of Eve, available from DVAN/UTTP. It is the official June pick of The Nervous Break...

775. Hernan Diaz

01 Jun 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Hernan Diaz is the author of the novel Trust, available from Riverhead.  A finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for fiction and the PEN/Faulkner Award, ...

774. Kathryn Miles

25 May 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Kathryn Miles is the author of Trailed: One Woman's Quest to Solve the Shenandoah Murders (Algonquin Books). Miles is the author of five books. Her ...

773. Mary Laura Philpott

18 May 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Mary Laura Philpott is the author of the memoir-in-essays Bomb Shelter: Love, Time, and Other Explosives (Atria Books). It was the official April pick...

772. Brad Listi

11 May 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Brad Listi is the author of the novel Be Brief and Tell Them Everything, available from Ig. Listi was born in Milwaukee. His other books include the n...

771. Darrel Alejandro Holnes

08 May 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Darrel Alejandro Holnes is the author of the poetry collection Stepmotherland (University of Notre Dame Press). It is the winner of the Andres Montoya...

770. Steve Almond

04 May 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Steve Almond is the author of the debut novel All the Secrets of the World, available from Zando. Almond is the author of ten books of fiction and non...

769. Caren Beilin

27 Apr 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Caren Beilin is the author of the novel Revenge of the Scapegoat, available from Dorothy. Beilin's other books are Blackfishing the IUD (Wolfman Books...

Be Brief and Tell Them Everything - Sneak Preview

24 Apr 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Today on the program, a special sneak preview of my new novel, Be Brief and Tell Them Everything, available now for preorder and wherever books are so...

768. Zac Smith

20 Apr 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Zac Smith is the author of the debut story collection Everything is Totally Fine, available from Muumuu House. Smith's other books includeTwo Million ...

767. Julia May Jonas

13 Apr 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Julia May Jonas is the author of the debut novel Vladimir, available from Avid Reader Press. Jonas is a playwright and teaches theater at Skidmore Col...

766. Anakana Schofield

06 Apr 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Anakana Schofield is the author of Bina: A Novel in Warnings, a New York Review Book. Schofield is an award-winning Irish-Canadian writer of fictio...

765. Kate Folk

30 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Kate Folk is the author of the debut story collection Out There, available from Random House. Folk has written for publications including The New Yo...

764. Mike Meginnis

23 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Mike Meginnis is the author of the novel Drowning Practice (Ecco Books). It is the official March pick of The Nervous Breakdown Book Club. Meginnis i...

763. Remembering Eve Babitz, with Lili Anolik

16 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Lili Anolik is the author of Hollywood's Eve: Eve Babitz and the Secret History of L.A., available from Scribner. Anolik is a contributing editor at V...

762. John Keene

09 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

John Keene is the author of Punks: New & Selected Poems, available from The Song Cave. Keene is a writer, translator, professor, and artist who was na...

761. Cara Blue Adams

02 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Cara Blue Adams is the author of the debut story collection You Never Get It Back, winner of the John Simmons Short Fiction Award, available from the ...

760. Lan Samantha Chang

23 Feb 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Lan Samantha Chang is the author of the novel The Family Chao, available from W.W. Norton & Co. It is the official February pick of The Nervous Breakd...

759. Sheila Heti

16 Feb 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Sheila Heti is the author of the novel Pure Colour, available from Farrar, Straus, & Giroux. Heti is the author of several books of fiction and nonfi...

758. Antoine Wilson

09 Feb 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Antoine Wilson is the author of the novel Mouth to Mouth, available from Avid Reader. Wilson is also the author of the novels The Interloper and Pa...

From Well-Read Black Girl: Anita Hill on Advocacy and Writing

08 Feb 2022

Contributed by Lukas

I'm sharing a special preview of the new podcast, Well-Read Black Girl from Pushkin Industries. Well-Read Black Girl is the literary kickback you ...

757. Debbie Millman

02 Feb 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Debbie Millman is the author of Why Design Matters: Conversations with the World's Most Creative People, available from Harper Design. Debbie’s pod...

756. Rachel Krantz

26 Jan 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Rachel Krantz is the author of Open: An Uncensored Memoir of Love, Liberation, and Non-Monogamy, available from Harmony Books. Krantz is one of the th...

755. Emmelie Prophète

23 Jan 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Emmelie Prophete is the author of the novel Blue, available from Amazon Crossing. Translated by Tina Kover. It is the official January pick of The Ner...

754. Jami Attenberg

19 Jan 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Jami Attenberg is the author of the memoir I Came All This Way to Meet You: Writing Myself Home, available from Ecco. Attenberg is the New York Times...

753. Claire Messud

12 Jan 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Claire Messud is the author of A Dream Life, available from Tablo Tales. Messud is the author of seven works of fiction, including the New York Times ...

752. Lejla Kalamujic

09 Jan 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Lejla Kalamujic is the author of the novel-in-stories Call Me Esteban, available from Sandorf Passage. Translated by Jennifer Zoble. Kalamujic is an ...

751. Lou Mathews

05 Jan 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Lou Mathews is the author of the novel Shaky Town, available from Tiger Van Books. Mathews has written seven books and published two of them, Just Lik...

2021 Holiday Spectacular!!

24 Dec 2021

Contributed by Lukas

As another year comes to a close, Brad is joined by authors Megan Boyle and Joseph Grantham to celebrate the season and reflect on what's ahead. Happy...

750. Stacy D. Flood

22 Dec 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Stacy D. Flood is the author of the novella The Salt Fields, available from Lanternfish Press. Originally from Buffalo, and currently living in Seattl...

749. Megan Milks

19 Dec 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Megan Milks is the author of the novel Margaret and the Mystery of the Missing Body (The Feminist Press). Milks is the author of Kill Marguerite a...

748. Robin McLean

15 Dec 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Robin McLean is the author of the debut novel Pity the Beast, available from And Other Stories. McLean worked as lawyer and then a potter in the woods...

747. Duncan Birmingham

12 Dec 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Duncan Birmingham is the author of the debut story collection The Cult in My Garage, available from Maudlin House. Birmingham is a writer and filmmake...

746. Roisin Kiberd

08 Dec 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Roisin Kiberd is the author of The Disconnect: A Personal Journey Through the Internet, available from Serpent's Tail. Kiberd's essays have been publi...

745. Janice Lee

05 Dec 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Janice Lee is the author of the novel Imagine a Death, available from Texas Review Press.  Lee is a Korean-American writer, editor, publisher, and sh...

744. Jocelyn Nicole Johnson

01 Dec 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Jocelyn Nicole Johnson is the author of the debut story collection My Monticello, available from Henry Holt & Co. Johnson's writing has appeared in G...

743. Sarah Hall

24 Nov 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Sarah Hall is the author of the novel Burntcoat, available from Custom House. It is the official November pick of The Nervous Breakdown Book Club. Hal...

742. Dennis Cooper

21 Nov 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Dennis Cooper is the author of the novel I Wished, available from Soho Press. Cooper is the author of the George Miles Cycle, an interconnected sequen...

741. Larissa Pham

17 Nov 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Larissa Pham is the author of the memoir-in-essays Pop Song, available from Catapult.  Pham is an artist and writer in Brooklyn. Born in Portland, O...

740. Mike DeCapite

14 Nov 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Mike DeCapite is the author of the novel Jacket Weather, available from Soft Skull Press. DeCapite's other books include the novel Through the Windsh...

739. Louise Erdrich

10 Nov 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Louise Erdrich is the author of the novel The Sentence, available from Harper. One of America's most celebrated authors, Erdrich was awarded the 2021 ...

738. Marlowe Granados

07 Nov 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Marlowe Granados is the author of the debut novel Happy Hour, available from Verso Books. Granados is a writer and filmmaker living in Toronto. She co...

737. Matthew Clark Davison

03 Nov 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Matthew Clark Davison is the author of the debut novel Doubting Thomas, available from Amble Press. Davison is a writer and educator living in San Fra...

736. Emily Ladau

31 Oct 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Emily Ladau is the author of Demystifying Disability: What to Know, What to Say, and How to Be an Ally, available from Ten Speed Press. Ladau is an i...

735. Lucy Corin

27 Oct 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Lucy Corin is the author of The Swank Hotel, available from Graywolf Press. It is the official October pick of The Nervous Breakdown Book Club. Corin'...

734. Kate Durbin

24 Oct 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Kate Durbin is the author of the poetry collection Hoarders, available now from Wave Books. Durbin is a Los Angeles-based artist and author of four...

733. Catherine Raven

20 Oct 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Catherine Raven is the author of the memoir Fox & I: An Uncommon Friendship, available from Spiegel and Grau. Raven received her Ph.D. in biology from...

732. Alexandra Kleeman

13 Oct 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Alexandra Kleeman is the author of the novel Something New Under the Sun, available from Hogarth Press. Kleeman's other books include Intimations, a s...

731. Julie Poole

10 Oct 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Julie Poole is the author of the poetry collection Bright Specimen, available now from Deep Vellum. Poole was born and raised in the Pacific Northwest...

730. Jose Vadi

06 Oct 2021

Contributed by Lukas

José Vadi is the author of the debut essay collection Inter State: Essays from California (Soft Skull).  He received the San Francisco Foundation’...

729. Louise Nealon

29 Sep 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Louise Nealon is the author of the debut novel Snowflake (Harper Books), a #1 International Bestseller. It is the official September pick of The Nervo...

728. Rachel Long

26 Sep 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Rachel Long is the author of the poetry collection My Darling from the Lions, available from Tin House. First published by Picador in the UK, it was s...

727. Lucie Elven

22 Sep 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Lucie Elven is the author of the debut novel The Weak Spot, available from Soft Skull Press. Elven has written for publications including The London...

726. Remembering Mark Baumer

15 Sep 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Today on the podcast, an episode devoted to the life and legacy of the late author, activist, diarist, and digital native Mark Baumer. A new book, The...

725. Anna Qu

12 Sep 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Anna Qu is the author of Made in China: A Memoir of Love and Labor, available from Catapult. Qu is a Chinese American writer. She writes personal essa...

724. Leigh Stein

08 Sep 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Leigh Stein is the guest. Her new poetry collection, What to Miss When, is available from Soft Skull. Stein is the author of five books including the...

723. Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi

01 Sep 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi is the author of the novel Savage Tongues, available from Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. Her previous novel, Call Me Zebra, w...

722. Katie Crouch

25 Aug 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Katie Crouch is the author of the novel Embassy Wife, available from Farrar, Straus, and Giroux. It is the official August pick of the TNB Book Club. ...

721. Sam Cohen

18 Aug 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Sam Cohen is the author of the debut story collection Sarahland, available from Grand Central Publishing. Cohen is a queer, Jewish femme born and rais...

720. Kendra Allen

11 Aug 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Kendra Allen is the author of the poetry collection The Collection Plate (Ecco). Allen was born and raised in Dallas, Texas. She is the recipient of ...

719. Tao Lin

04 Aug 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Tao Lin is the author of the novel Leave Society (Vintage). This is his fourth time on the program. Lin's other books include Trip: Psychedelics, Al...

718. Matthew Specktor

28 Jul 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Matthew Specktor is the author of Always Crashing in the Same Car: On Art, Crisis, and Los Angeles, California, available from Tin House. Specktor’...

717. Reginald Dwayne Betts

21 Jul 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Reginald Dwayne Betts is the author of the poetry collection Felon, available from W.W. Norton & Co. Betts is a poet, essayist, and national spokespe...

716. Matt Bell

14 Jul 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Matt Bell is the author of the novel Appleseed, available from Custom House Books. It is the official July pick of The Nervous Breakdown Book Club. ...

715. Greg Gerke

07 Jul 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Greg Gerke is the author of the essay collection See What I See (Zerogram Press). Gerke’s work has appeared in Tin House, Film Quarterly, The Keny...

714. Mark Leidner

04 Jul 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Mark Leidner is the author of the poetry collection Returning the Sword to the Stone (Fonograf Editions). Leidner is also the author of two feature f...

713. Pedro Mairal

30 Jun 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Pedro Mairal is the author of the novel The Woman from Uruguay (Bloomsbury), translated by Jennifer Croft. Mairal was born in Buenos Aires in 1970....

712. Forrest Gander

23 Jun 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Forrest Gander is the author of the poetry collection Twice Alive, available now from New Directions. In 2019, he was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for ...

711. Lana Bastasic

16 Jun 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Lana Bastasic is the author of the debut novel Catch the Rabbit, winner of the 2020 European Union Prize for Literature. Available now in translation...

710. Barrett Swanson

09 Jun 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Barrett Swanson is the author of the essay collection Lost in Summerland (Counterpoint Press). Swanson is a contributing editor at Harper’s Magazine...

709. Melissa Febos

02 Jun 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Melissa Febos is the author of the essay collection Girlhood (Bloomsbury). It is a national bestseller.  Her other books include the critically accla...

708. Sam Tallent

26 May 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Sam Tallent is the guest. His debut novel, Running the Light, is available on Too Big To Fail Press. Known for whip-quick wit and rollicking improvisa...

707. Courtney Zoffness

19 May 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Courtney Zoffness is the author of Spilt Milk, a collection of memoirs available now from McSweeney's. It is the official May pick of The Nervous Brea...

706. Elissa Washuta

12 May 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Elissa Washuta is the author of the essay collection White Magic, now available from Tin House. Washuta is a member of the Cowlitz Indian Tribe and a ...

Shanna Mahin 1963-2021

10 May 2021

Contributed by Lukas

This conversation first aired on June 17, 2015. It is being reposted in memory of Shanna Mahin, who died last week. She had been battling a particular...

705. Gina Nutt

05 May 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Gina Nutt is the author of the essay collection Night Rooms, available now from Two Dollar Radio. Nutt's other books include the poetry collection Wil...

704. Mik Grantham

28 Apr 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Mik Grantham is the author of the debut poetry collection Hardcore, available from Short Flight / Long Drive Books. Grantham is the founder and co-ed...

703. Patricia Engel

25 Apr 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Patricia Engel is the author of the novel Infinite Country, available from Avid Reader Press. It is the official April pick of The Nervous Breakdown ...

702. Andrea Bajani

21 Apr 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Andrea Bajani is the author of the novel If You Kept a Record of Sins, available from Archipelago Books. It was translated from the Italian by Elizabe...

701. Shannon McLeod

14 Apr 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Shannon McLeod is the author of the novella Whimsy, available from Long Day Press. McLeod is also the author of the essay chapbook Pathetic (Universi...

700. Gina Frangello

07 Apr 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Gina Frangello is the author of the memoir Blow Your House Down, available from Counterpoint Press. This is Gina's second time on the program. She fir...

Giancarlo DiTrapano 1974-2021

02 Apr 2021

Contributed by Lukas

This episode first aired on March 27, 2013. It is being reposted in memory of Giancarlo DiTrapano (1974-2021), founder and publisher of Tyrant Books. ...

699. Hari Kunzru

31 Mar 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Hari Kunzru is the author of the novel Red Pill, available now from Knopf. This is Hari's second time on the program. He first appeared in Episode 57,...

698. Tod Goldberg

24 Mar 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Tod Goldberg is the guest. His critically acclaimed new story collection, The Low Desert, is available from Counterpoint. This is Tod's third time on ...

697. Yamen Manai

17 Mar 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Yamen Manai is the author of the novel The Ardent Swarm, available now from Amazon Crossing. Winner of the Prix Comar d'Or and the Prix des Cinq Conti...

696. Vesna Maric

10 Mar 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Vesna Maric is the author of the debut novel The President Shop (Sandorf Passage). Maric was born in Mostar, Bosnia-Herzegovina, in 1976. She left the...

695. Melissa Broder

03 Mar 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Melissa Broder is the guest. Her new novel, Milk Fed, is available from Scribner. This is Melissa's fourth time on the podcast. She first appeared in ...

694. David Tromblay

24 Feb 2021

Contributed by Lukas

David Tromblay is the guest. His new memoir, As You Were, is available from Dzanc Books. It is the official February pick of The Nervous Breakdown Boo...

693. Candace Jane Opper

17 Feb 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Candace Jane Opper is the author of the debut memoir Certain and Impossible Events. It was selected by Cheryl Strayed as the winner of the Kore Pre...