Otherppl with Brad Listi
Episodes
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...
692. Ahmed Naji
10 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Ahmed Naji is the guest. He is the author of three novels, including Using Life (University of Texas Press), which led to his imprisonment in Egypt—...
691. Michael Bible
03 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Michael Bible is the guest. His new novel, The Ancient Hours, is available from Melville House. Support independent booksellers! Get your copy here. B...
690. Te-Ping Chen
27 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Te-Ping Chen is the guest. Her debut story collection, Land of Big Numbers, is available from Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. It is the official January pi...
689. Rob Doyle
20 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Rob Doyle is the guest. His new book, Threshold, is available from Bloomsbury. Doyle's debut novel, Here Are the Young Men, was published in 2014 by ...
688. Gil Adamson
13 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Gil Adamson is the guest. Her new novel, The Ridgerunner, will be published in the United States by House of Anansi Press on February 2, 2021. Adamson...
687. George Saunders
06 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
George Saunders is the guest. His new book, A Swim in a Pond in the Rain, is available from Random House. This is George's second time on the program....
686. Holiday Spectacular
23 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In keeping with the tenets of 2020, this year's holiday episode unfolded online, not in a Zoom room but in a "Skype amphitheater." With guest appearan...
685. Alex Branson
16 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Alex Branson is the guest. His new novel, Water, Wasted, is available from Rare Bird Books. It is the official December pick of The Nervous Breakdown ...
684. Michael Schumacher
09 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Michael Schumacher is the guest. He is the editor of The Fall of America Journals, 1965-1971, by the late Allen Ginsberg, available now from the Unive...
683. Travis Hoewischer
02 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Travis Hoewischer is the guest. He is the author of the Two Dollar Radio Guide to Naming Your Baby, available now from Two Dollar Radio. Hoewischer ha...
682. Darien Gee
25 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Darien Gee is the guest. She has two books out this year. The first is called Other Small Histories, a poetry collection available from Poetry Society...
681. Kasey Thornton
18 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Kasey Thornton is the guest. Her debut novel-in-stories, Lord the One You Love is Sick, is available now from Ig Publishing. It is the official Novemb...
680. Andrew Weatherhead
11 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Andrew Weatherhead is the guest. His latest book, $50,000, is available from Publishing Genius. Weatherhead is a writer and artist from Chicago, Illin...
679. Sebastian Castillo
04 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Sebastian Castillo is the guest. His new book, Not I, is available from Word West Press. Castillo is the author of 49 Venezuelan Novels (Bottlecap ...
678. Jared Yates Sexton
28 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Jared Yates Sexton is the guest. His new book, American Rule, is available from Dutton. This is Jared's second time on the program. He first appeared ...
677. Anne Helen Petersen
21 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Anne Helen Petersen is the guest. Her new book, Can't Even: How Millennials Became the Burnout Generation, is available from Houghton Mifflin Harcourt...
676. Laura Bogart
14 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Laura Bogart is the guest. Her debut novel, Don't You Know I Love You, is available from Dzanc Books. Bogart is also a non-fiction writer who focuses ...
675. Dean Koontz
07 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Dean Koontz is the guest. His new novel, Elsewhere, is available from Thomas & Mercer. Koontz is the author of fourteen number one New York Times be...
674. Lynn Steger Strong
04 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Lynn Steger Strong is the guest. Her new novel, Want, is available from Henry Holt. Strong was born and raised in South Florida. Her first novel, Hold...
673. Steven Dunn
30 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Steven Dunn is the guest. His latest novel, water & power, is available from Tarpaulin Sky. Dunn's other novel, Potted Meat, is also available from Ta...
672. Amy Shearn
23 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Amy Shearn is the guest. Her new novel, Unseen City, is available from Red Hen Press. It is the official September pick of The Nervous Breakdown Book ...
671. Kathleen Rooney
16 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Kathleen Rooney is the guest. Her new novel, Cher Ami and Major Whittlesey, is available from Penguin Books. This is her second time on the program. S...
670. Matthew Salesses
09 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Matthew Salesses is the guest. His new novel, Disappear Doppelgänger Disappear, is available from Little A Publishing. This is Matthew's second time ...
669. David Goodwillie
02 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
David Goodwillie is the guest. His new novel, Kings County, is available from Avid Reader Press / Simon & Schuster. Goodwillie's other books include t...
668. Emerson Whitney
26 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Emerson Whitney is the guest. He is the author of a memoir called Heaven, available from McSweeney's. Whitney is also the author of Ghost Box. He teac...
667. Nick Flynn
19 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Nick Flynn is the guest. His new memoir, This is the Night Our House Will Catch Fire, is available now from W.W. Norton & Co. It is the official Augus...
666. Stephen Graham Jones
16 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Stephen Graham Jones is the guest. His latest novel, The Only Good Indians, is available from Gallery Books. Jones is the author of twenty-five or so ...
665. Mesha Maren
12 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Mesha Maren is the guest. Her debut novel, Sugar Run, is available from Algonquin Books. Maren's short stories and essays can be read in Tin House, ...
664. Sabrina Orah Mark
09 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Sabrina Orah Mark is the guest. Her story collection, Wild Milk, is available from The Dorothy Project. Sabrina grew up in Brooklyn, New York. She ear...
663. Hilary Leichter
05 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Hilary Leichter is the guest. Her debut novel, Temporary, is available from Coffee House Press. Hilary teaches at Columbia University, where she earne...
662. Leigh Stein
02 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Leigh Stein is the guest. Her new novel, Self Care, is available from Penguin. This is Leigh's third time on the program. She first appeared in Episod...
661. Raphael Bob-Waksberg
29 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Raphael Bob-Waksberg is the guest. He is the creator of the animated television series BoJack Horseman and the author of a new story collection cal...
660. Maggie Downs
26 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Maggie Downs is the guest. Her new memoir, Braver Than You Think: Around the World on the Trip of My (Mother's) Lifetime, is available from Counterpoi...
659. Jean Kyoung Frazier
22 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Jean Kyoung Frazier is the guest. Her new novel, Pizza Girl, is available from Doubleday. It is the official July pick of The Nervous Breakdown Book C...
658. Nikki Dolson
19 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Nikki Dolson is the guest. Her new story collection, Love and Other Criminal Behavior, is available from Bronzeville Books. Dolson is a writer primari...
657. Genevieve Hudson
15 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Genevieve Hudson is the guest. Their new novel, Boys of Alabama, is available from Liveright Publishing. This is their second time on the program. The...
656. Wayne Koestenbaum
12 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Wayne Koestenbaum is the guest. His new essay collection, Figure It Out, is available from Soft Skull Press. Koestenbaum has published nineteen books,...
655. Joseph Di Prisco
08 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Joseph Di Prisco is the guest. His new novel, The Good Family Fitzgerald, is available from Rare Bird Books. It was the official May pick of The Nervo...
654. Meredith Talusan
05 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Meredith Talusan is the guest. Her new memoir, Fairest, is available from Viking. Talusan is an award-winning journalist and author. She has written ...
653. Brian Allen Carr
01 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Brian Allen Carr is the guest. His new novel, Opioid, Indiana, is available from Soho Press. This is Carr's second time on the program. He first appea...
652. Natalie Diaz
28 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Natalie Diaz is the guest. Her new poetry collection, Postcolonial Love Poem, is available from Graywolf Press. It is the official June pick of The Ne...
651. Brady Hammes
24 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Brady Hammes is the guest. His debut novel, The Resolutions, is available from Ballantine Books. Hammes lives in Los Angeles by way of Colorado and Io...
650. Spring Washam
21 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Spring Washam is the guest. She is the author of A Fierce Heart: Finding Strength, Courage, and Wisdom in Any Moment (Hay House). Washam is a well-kno...
649. Ashleigh Bryant Phillips
17 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Ashleigh Bryant Phillips is the guest. Her debut story collection, Sleepovers, is available from Hub City Press. It is the winner of the 2019 C. Micha...
648. Roxane Gay
14 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Roxane Gay is the guest. A contributing opinion writer for the New York Times, she is the author of several bestselling books, including Bad Feminist,...
647. Susan Choi
10 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Susan Choi is the guest. Her novel, Trust Exercise, is available in trade paperback from Henry Holt. It is the winner of the 2019 National Book Award ...
A Few Words
03 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The podcast is dark this week, in light of the events of the past few days. A few brief words on the current state of things, recorded in Los Angeles...
646. Kristen Millares Young
27 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Kristen Millares Young is the guest. Her debut novel, Subduction, is available from Red Hen Press. Young is a prize-winning journalist and essayist wh...
645. Chelsea Bieker
20 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Chelsea Bieker is the guest. Her debut novel, Godshot, is available from Catapult Press. Bieker's forthcoming story collection, Cowboys and Angels, i...
644. Chris Dennis
17 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Chris Dennis is the guest. His new story collection, Here is What You Do, is available from Soho Press. Dennis' work has appeared in The Paris Review,...
643. Mary South
13 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Mary South is the guest. Her debut story collection, You Will Never Be Forgotten, is available from FSG Originals. South is a graduate of Northwestern...
642. Danielle Trussoni
06 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Danielle Trussoni is the guest. Her new novel, The Ancestor, is available from William Morrow. Trussoni is the New York Times, USA Today, and Sunda...
641. Rowan Hisayo Buchanan
29 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Rowan Hisayo Buchanan is the guest. Her new novel, Starling Days, is available from The Overlook Press. It is the official April pick of The Nervous B...
640. Kevin Bigley
22 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Kevin Bigley is the guest. His new novel, Comaville, is available from Clash Books. Bigley is an actor/author. He can be seen on such television as Am...
639. Juliana Delgado Lopera
19 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Juliana Delgado Lopera is the guest. Their new novel, Fiebre Tropical, is available from The Feminist Press. It was the official February pick of The ...
638. Amanda Goldblatt
15 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Amanda Goldblatt is the guest. Her debut novel, Hard Mouth, is available from Counterpoint Press. Goldblatt's work can lately be found at NOON, Fenc...
637. Megan Boyle
12 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Megan Boyle is the guest. Her novel LIVEBLOG is available from Tyrant Books. This is Megan's second time on the program. She first appeared in Episode...
636. Crissy Van Meter
08 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Crissy Van Meter is the guest. Her debut novel, Creatures, is available from Algonquin Books. She teaches creative writing at The Writing Institute at...
635. Sarah Kendzior
05 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Sarah Kendzior is the guest. Her new book, Hiding in Plain Sight: The Invention of Donald Trump and the Erosion of America, is available from Flatiron...
634. Jenn Shapland
01 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Jenn Shapland is the guest. Her debut, My Autobiography of Carson McCullers, is a genre-bending work of nonfiction. It is available from Tin House Boo...
633. Deb Olin Unferth
29 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Deb Olin Unferth is the guest. Her new novel Barn 8 is now available from Graywolf Press. It is the official March pick of the TNB Book Club. This is ...
632. Monika Woods
25 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Monika Woods is the guest. She is a literary agent and founder of Triangle House Literary in New York. Woods' clients have won the PEN Bingham Award, ...
631. Sam Farahmand
18 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Sam Farahmand is the guest. His debut novel, Chimero, is available from dr.Doctor Press. Farahmand is originally from Los Angeles. His writing has app...
630. Erin Eileen Almond
11 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Erin Eileen Almond is the guest. Her debut novel, Witches' Dance, is available from Lanternfish Press. Almond is a novelist, short story writer, essa...
629. April Dávila
08 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
April Dávila is the guest. Her debut novel, 142 Ostriches, is available from Kensington Books. Dávila received her undergraduate degree from Scripps...
628. Emily Nemens
04 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Emily Nemens is the guest. Her debut novel, The Cactus League, is available from Farrar, Straus, & Giroux. In 2018, Nemens became the seventh editor o...
627. Megan Fernandes
01 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Megan Fernandes is the guest. Her new poetry collection, Good Boys, is available from Tin House Books. It was a finalist for the Kundiman Book Prize a...
626. Garth Greenwell
26 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Garth Greenwell is the guest. His new book Cleanness is available from Farrar, Straus, & Giroux. Greenwell is the author of What Belongs to You, which...
625. Katharine Coldiron
19 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Katharine Coldiron is the guest. Her debut novella, Ceremonials, is available from Kernpunkt Press. Coldiron's work has appeared in Ms., the Washingto...
624. Nicolette Polek
12 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Nicolette Polek is the guest. Her new story collection, Imaginary Museums, is available from Soft Skull Press. Polek is a writer from Cleveland, Ohio ...
623. Amina Cain
05 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Amina Cain is the guest. Her new novel, Indelicacy, is available from Farrar, Straus, & Giroux. This is Amina's second time on the program. She first ...
622. Elaine Kahn
29 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Elaine Kahn is the guest. She is a writer and artist currently based in Los Angeles. Her new poetry collection, Romance or The End, is available from...
621. Matthew Zapruder
22 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Matthew Zapruder is the guest. His latest poetry collection, Father's Day, is available from Copper Canyon Press. This is his second time on the progr...
620. Amanda Yates Garcia
15 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Amanda Yates Garcia is the guest. Her new memoir, Initiated: Memoir of a Witch, is available from Grand Central Publishing. This is Amanda's second ti...
619. Steffie Nelson, Heather John Fogarty, & Sarah Tomlinson
08 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Steffie Nelson, Heather John Fogarty, and Sarah Tomlinson are the guests. All are contributors to a new essay anthology called Slouching Towards Los A...