Otherppl with Brad Listi

810. Kevin Maloney

22 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Kevin Maloney is the author of the novel The Red-Headed Pilgrim, available from Two Dollar Radio. Maloney is the author of Cult of Loretta and the ...

How to Write Action

20 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

In the inaugural episode of Craftwork, a new series from the Otherppl podcast, author Matt Bell teaches a lesson on how to write action in fiction. Be...

809. Matthew Salesses

18 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Matthew Salesses is the author of the novel The Sense of Wonder (Little, Brown & Co.). Salesses' other books include the national bestseller Craft in...

808. Bruce Wagner

15 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Bruce Wagner is the author of Roar: American Master, available from Arcade Publishing. Wagner has written twelve novels and bestsellers, including the...

807. Kashana Cauley

11 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Kashana Cauley is the author of the debut novel The Survivalists, available from Soft Skull Press. Cauley is a former Midtown antitrust lawyer and Br...

806. Sean Adams

08 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Sean Adams is the author of the novel The Thing in the Snow, available from William Morrow. It is the official January pick of the TNB Book Club. Adam...

805. Dorthe Nors

04 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Dorthe Nors is the author of the acclaimed essay collection A Line in the World: A Year on the North Sea Coast (Graywolf Press), translated by Carolin...

Holiday Spectacular 2022

21 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Here we are again. Another year in the books. Another Holiday Spectacular episode of the Otherppl podcast. This year, the Spectacular was recorded at ...

804. Sam Lipsyte

14 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Sam Lipsyte is the author of the novel No One Left to Come Looking for You (Simon & Schuster). Lipsyte is the author of the story collections Venus ...

803. Allegra Hyde

07 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Allegra Hyde is the author of the novel Eleutheria, available from Vintage. It is the official December pick of the TNB Book Club. Hyde's debut story ...

802. Emily Pifer

30 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Emily Pifer is the author of the award-winning debut memoir The Running Body, available from Autumn House Press. Pifer received her MFA in creative no...

801. Kyle Spencer

23 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Kyle Spencer is an investigative journalist and the author of Raising Them Right: The Untold Story of America's Ultraconservative Youth Movement and I...

800. Pete Hsu

16 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Pete Hsu is the author of the story collection If I Were the Ocean, I'd Carry You Home, available from Red Hen Press. It is the official November pick...

799. Rich Ferguson, Mary Kerr, S.A. Griffin

13 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Rich Ferguson, Mary Kerr, and S.A. Griffin are the guests for a roundtable discussion of Beat literature and the new anthology Beat Not Beat: An Antho...

798. Lynn Steger Strong

09 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Lynn Steger Strong is the author of the novel Flight, available from Mariner Books. Strong's other books include the novels Want and Hold Still. Her...

797. Andrew Sean Greer

02 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Andrew Sean Greer is a Pulitzer Prize winner and the author of the novel Less is Lost (Little, Brown), a New York Times bestseller. Greer is the auth...

796. Jonathan Escoffery

26 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Jonathan Escoffery is the author of the debut story collection If I Survive You, available from MCD/FSG. If I Survive You is a National Book Award Nom...

795. George Saunders

19 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

George Saunders is the author of the story collection Liberation Day, available from Random House. Saunders is the #1 New York Times bestselling au...

794. Morgan Talty

12 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Morgan Talty is the author of the debut story collection Night of the Living Rez, available from Tin House. It is the official October pick of The Ner...

793. A.M. Homes

05 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

A.M. Homes is the author of the novel The Unfolding, available from Viking. Homes is the author of thirteen books, among them the best-selling memoir...

792. Chelsea Martin

28 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Chelsea Martin is the author of the novel Tell Me I'm an Artist, available from Soft Skull Press. Martin is the author of the essay collection Caca Do...

791. Elizabeth Strout

21 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Elizabeth Strout is the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of the novel Lucy by the Sea, available from Random House. Strout is the #1 New York Times be...

790. Jerry Stahl

14 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Jerry Stahl is the author of the memoir Nein, Nein, Nein!: One Man's Tale of Depression, Psychic Torment, and a Bus Tour of the Holocaust, available f...

789. Luke Dani Blue

07 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Luke Dani Blue is the author of the debut story collection Pretend It's My Body, available from The Feminist Press. It is the official September pick ...

788. Timothy Willis Sanders

31 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Timothy Willis Sanders is the author of the story collection Modern Massacres (Publishing Genius). Modern Massacres is Timothy Willis Sanders’s thi...

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. ...