Otherppl with Brad Listi

592. Sarah Rose Etter

07 Aug 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Sarah Rose Etter is the guest. Her debut novel, The Book of X, is available from Two Dollar Radio. She is also the author of the chapbook Tongue Party...

591. J. Ryan Stradal

31 Jul 2019

Contributed by Lukas

J. Ryan Stradal is the guest. His new novel, The Lager Queen of Minnesota, is available from Viking / Pamela Dorman Books. This is Stradal's second ti...

590. Chip Cheek

24 Jul 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Chip Cheek is the guest. His debut novel, Cape May, is available from Celadon Books. Cheek's stories have appeared in The Southern Review, Harvard Rev...

589. Steve Almond

17 Jul 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Steve Almondis the guest. His new book, William Stoner and the Battle for the Inner Life, is available from Ig Publishing. This is Steve's fourth time...

588. Erin Hosier

10 Jul 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Erin Hosieris the guest. Her new memoir, Don't Let Me Down, is available from Atria Books. Hosier is also the coauthor of Hit So Hard by Patty Schemel...

587. Bret Easton Ellis

03 Jul 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Bret Easton Ellis is the guest. His new essay collection, White, is available from Knopf. Ellis is the author of six novels, including Less Than Zero,...

586. Karen Stefano

26 Jun 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Karen Stefano is the guest. Her new book, What a Body Remembers: A Memoir of Sexual Assault and Its Aftermath, is available from Rare Bird Books. It i...

585. Elvia Wilk

19 Jun 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Elvia Wilk is the guest. Her debut novel, Oval, is available from Soft Skull Press. Wilk is a writer and editor living in New York and Berlin. She con...

584. Kathryn Scanlan

12 Jun 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Kathryn Scanlan is the guest. Her new book, Aug 9 — Fog, is available from MCD Books. Scanlan lives in Los Angeles. Her stories have appeared in NOO...

583. Jennifer Pastiloff

05 Jun 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Jennifer Pastiloff is the guest. Her new book, On Being Human: A Memoir of Waking Up, Living Real, and Listening Hard, is available from Dutton. Pasti...

582. Elisa Gabbert

29 May 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Elisa Gabbert is the guest. Her new essay collection, The Word Pretty, is available from Black Ocean Press. This is Elisa's second time on the podcast...

581. Saskia Vogel

22 May 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Saskia Vogel is the guest. Her debut novel, Permission, is available from Coach House Books. Vogel was born and raised in Los Angeles and now lives in...

580. Lydia Fitzpatrick

15 May 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Lydia Fitzpatrick is the guest. Her debut novel, Lights All Night Long, is available from Penguin Press. Fitzpatrick’s work has appeared in the The ...

579. Lilliam Rivera

08 May 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Lilliam Rivera is the guest. Her new YA novel, Dealing in Dreams, is available from Simon & Schuster. Rivera's previous novel, The Education of Margot...

578. Balli Kaur Jaswal

01 May 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Balli Kaur Jaswal is the guest. Her new novel, The Unlikely Adventures of the Shergill Sisters, is available from William Morrow. It is the official A...

577. David Shields

24 Apr 2019

Contributed by Lukas

David Shields is the guest. His two most recent books are The Trouble with Men: Reflections on Sex, Love, Marriage, Porn, and Power (Mad Creek Books) ...

576. T Kira Madden

17 Apr 2019

Contributed by Lukas

T Kira Madden is the guest. Her new memoir, Long Live the Tribe of Fatherless Girls, is available from Bloomsbury. It was the official March pick of ...

575. Lori Gottlieb

10 Apr 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Lori Gottlieb is the guest. Her new memoir, Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: A Therapist, Her Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed, is available from Ho...

574. Richard Chiem

03 Apr 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Richard Chiem is the guest. His new novel, King of Joy, is available from Soft Skull Press. This is Richard's second time on the podcast. He first app...

573. Chloe Aridjis

31 Mar 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Chloe Aridjis is the guest. Her new novel, Sea Monsters, is available from Catapult Press. Aridjis is a Mexican-American writer who was born in New Yo...

572. Eva Hagberg Fisher

27 Mar 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Eva Hagberg Fisher is the guest. Her new book, How to Be Loved: A Memoir of Life-Saving Friendship, is available from Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. Eva's...

571. Roger McNamee

20 Mar 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Roger McNamee is the guest. His new book Zucked: Waking Up to the Facebook Catastrophe, is a New York Times bestseller, available from Penguin Press. ...

570. Steve Anwyll

13 Mar 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Steve Anwyll is the guest. His debut novel, Welfare, is available from Tyrant Books. Anwyll's work has appeared in Hobart and Tyrant Magazine, among o...

569. Pam Houston

06 Mar 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Pam Houston is the guest. Her new essay collection, Deep Creek: Finding Hope in the High Country, is available now from W.W. Norton & Co. Houston's ot...

568. Sam Lipsyte

03 Mar 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Sam Lipsyte is the guest. His new novel, Hark, is available now from Simon & Schuster. This is Sam's second time on the podcast. He first appeared in ...

567. Sarah McColl

27 Feb 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Sarah McColl is the guest. Her debut memoir, Joy Enough, is available now from Liveright Publishing. McColl's essays have appeared in Paris Review, Mc...

566. Madhuri Vijay

20 Feb 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Madhuri Vijay is the guest. Her debut novel, The Far Field, is available now from Grove Press. A graduate of the Iowa Writers Workshop, Vijay was born...

565. Peter Stenson

17 Feb 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Peter Stenson is the guest. His new novel Thirty Seven is available from Dzanc Books. It is the official February pick of The Nervous Breakdown Book C...

564. Brad Phillips

13 Feb 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Brad Phillips is the guest. His new story collection, Essays and Fictions, is available from Tyrant Books. The late Anthony Bourdain calls it: "Searin...

563. Duke Haney

06 Feb 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Duke Haney is the guest. His new essay collection, Death Valley Superstars, is available now from Delancey Street Press. Haney has spent most of his a...

562. Ingrid Rojas Contreras

30 Jan 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Ingrid Rojas Contreras is the guest. Her debut novel, FRUIT OF THE DRUNKEN TREE (Doubleday), is a national bestseller, an Indie Next selection, a Barn...

561. Thomas Kohnstamm

23 Jan 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Thomas Kohnstamm is the guest. His debut novel, Lake City, is available from Counterpoint Press. It is the official January pick of The Nervous Breakd...

560. Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore

16 Jan 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore is the guest. Her new novel SKETCHTASY is available from Arsenal Pulp Press. Described as "startlingly bold and provocativ...

559. Tommy Pico

09 Jan 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Tommy Pico is the guest. A poet, performer, and screenwriter, he is the author of the poetry collections IRL (Birds, LLC), NATURE POEM, JUNK, and the ...

558. Morris Collins

02 Jan 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Morris Collinsis the guest. He is the author of the debut novel Horse Latitudes (Dzanc Books). It was the official December 2018 pick of The Nervous B...

557. Brittany Ackerman

26 Dec 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Brittany Ackerman is the author of the debut memoir The Perpetual Motion Machine (Red Hen Press). Ackerman is a graduate of Florida Atlantic Universit...

556. Katya Apekina

19 Dec 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Katya Apekina is the guest. She is the author of the debut novel THE DEEPER THE WATER THE UGLIER THE FISH (Two Dollar Radio). Apekina's short stories ...

555. Anita Felicelli

12 Dec 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Anita Felicelli is the author of the debut story collection LOVE SONGS FOR A LOST CONTINENT (Stillhouse Press), winner of the 2016 Mary Roberts Rineha...

554. John Wray

05 Dec 2018

Contributed by Lukas

John Wray is the guest. He is the author of the novel GODSEND (Farrar, Straus, & Giroux). His other novels include The Lost Time Accidents, Lowboy, Ca...

553. Christopher Zeischegg

28 Nov 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Christopher Zeischegg is the author of the memoir BODY TO JOB (Rare Bird Books). A writer, musician, and filmmaker, he spent eight years working in th...

552. Daniel Gumbiner

21 Nov 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Daniel Gumbiner is the author of the debut novel THE BOATBUILDER, available from McSweeney's. It was nominated for the National Book Award. Gumbiner i...

551. Lydia Kiesling

14 Nov 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Lydia Kiesling is the author of the debut novel THE GOLDEN STATE, available from MCD Books. Kiesling is a 2018 National Book Foundation “5 under 35”...

550. Leah Dieterich

07 Nov 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Brad Listi talks with Leah Dieterich, author of the debut memoir VANISHING TWINS: A MARRIAGE (Soft Skull Press). Dietrich's essays and short fiction h...

549. Andre Dubus III

31 Oct 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Andre Dubus III is the bestselling author of the novel GONE SO LONG (W.W. Norton). His other book include "House of Sand and Fog," "The Garden of Last...

548. Meghan O'Gieblyn

24 Oct 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Meghan O'Gieblyn is the author of the essay collection INTERIOR STATES (Anchor Books). It is the official October pick of The Nervous Breakdown Book C...

547. Kristi Coulter

17 Oct 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Kristi Coulter is the author of the essay collection NOTHING GOOD CAN COME FROM THIS (MCD/FSG Originals). Coulter holds an MFA in creative writing fro...

546. Laura van den Berg

10 Oct 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Laura van den Berg is the author of the novel THE THIRD HOTEL (Farrar, Straus, & Giroux). Her other books include two collections of stories, The Isle...

545. Mark Leidner

03 Oct 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Mark Leidner is the author of the story collection UNDER THE SEA (Tyrant Books). Leidner's other books include Beauty Was the Case They Gave Me, (Fact...

544. Genevieve Hudson

26 Sep 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Genevieve Hudson is the author of A LITTLE IN LOVE WITH EVERYONE (Fiction Advocate), a work of queer commentary, and a story collection called PRETEND...

543. Lisa Locascio

19 Sep 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Lisa Locascio is the author of the debut novel OPEN ME (Grove Atlantic). Her work has appeared in The Believer, Tin House, n+1, Bookforum, and many ot...

542. Joseph Grantham

12 Sep 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Joseph Grantham is a poet and the author of the debut collection TOM SAWYER, available now from Civil Coping Mechanisms. Grantham was born in Kansas C...

541. T. Greenwood

09 Sep 2018

Contributed by Lukas

T. Greenwood is the author of the novel RUST & STARDUST (St. Martin's Press). Greenwood has published twelve novels and has received grants from the S...

540. Maggie Nelson

05 Sep 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Brad Listi talks with Maggie Nelson, author of the poetry collection SOMETHING BRIGHT, THEN HOLES (Soft Skull Press). Nelson is the author of nine boo...

539. Victoria Patterson

29 Aug 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Victoria Patterson is the author of the story collection THE SECRET HABIT OF SORROW (Counterpoint Press). Patterson is the author of the novels THE PE...

538. Amber Tamblyn

22 Aug 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Amber Tamblyn is the author of the novel ANY MAN (Harper Perennial) and three books of poetry, including the critically acclaimed best seller, "Dark S...

537. Adam Greenfield

15 Aug 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Adam Greenfield is the author of the debut novel CIRCA (Pelekinesis Press), the official August pick of The Nervous Breakdown Book Club. Greenfield's ...

536. Amanda Stern

08 Aug 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Amanda Stern is the author of the memoir LITTLE PANIC: DISPATCHES FROM AN ANXIOUS LIFE (Grand Central Publishing). Stern's first novel "The Long Haul"...

535. Allie Rowbottom

01 Aug 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Allie Rowbottom is the author of JELL-O GIRLS: A FAMILY HISTORY (Little, Brown). Her essays can be found in Vanity Fair, Salon, The Rumpus, and elsewh...

534. Robert Goolrick

25 Jul 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Robert Goolrick is the author of the novel THE DYING OF THE LIGHT (Harper). It is the official July pick of The Nervous Breakdown Book Club. Goolrick ...

533. Adrienne Celt

18 Jul 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Adrienne Celt is the author of the novel INVITATION TO A BONFIRE (Bloomsbury). Celt's debut novel "The Daughters"(Norton/Liveright) won the 2015 PEN S...

532. Ottessa Moshfegh

11 Jul 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Ottessa Moshfegh is the author of the novel My Year of Rest and Relaxation (Penguin Press). Moshfegh's first book, McGlue, a novella, won the Fence Mo...

531. Bethany C. Morrow

04 Jul 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Bethany C. Morrow is the author of the debut novel MEM (Unnamed Press). A California native, Morrow graduated from the University of California, Santa...

530. Ruth Ozeki

01 Jul 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Ruth Ozeki is the author of the novel, A TALE FOR THE TIME BEING (2013), won the LA Times Book Prize and was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize and ...

529. Poe Ballantine

27 Jun 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Poe Ballantine is the author of the novel WHIRLAWAY (Hawthorne Books). He currently lives in Chadron, Nebraska. His work has appeared in The Atlantic ...

528. Jamel Brinkley

20 Jun 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Jamel Brinkley is the author of the story collection A LUCKY MAN (Graywolf Press). Brinkley's fiction has appeared, or is forthcoming, in The Best Ame...

527. Chelsea Hodson

13 Jun 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Chelsea Hodson is the author of the essay collection TONIGHT I'M SOMEONE ELSE (Henry Holt) and a chapbook called "Pity the Animal." She is a graduate ...

Re-post: Episode 238 — Jennifer Michael Hecht

08 Jun 2018

Contributed by Lukas

A re-posting of this December 29, 2013 conversation between Brad Listi and Jennifer Michael Hecht, author STAY: A HISTORY OF SUICIDE AND THE ARGUMENTS...

526. Aja Gabel

06 Jun 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Aja Gabel is the author of the debut novel THE ENSEMBLE (Riverhead Books). Gabel's short fiction can be found in New England Review, New Ohio Review, ...

525. Jonathan Evison

03 Jun 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Jonathan Evison is the bestselling author of the novel LAWN BOY (Algonquin Books). Evison is the author of four previous novels, including All About L...

524. Michelle Dean

30 May 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Michelle Dean is the author of SHARP: THE WOMEN WHO MADE AN ART OF HAVING AN OPINION (Grove Press). Dean is a journalist, critic, and the recipient of...

523. Adrian Todd Zuniga

27 May 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Adrian Todd Zuniga is the author of the debut novel COLLISION THEORY (Rare Bird Books). Zuniga the host/creator/CCO of Literary Death Match (now featu...

522. Sloane Crosley

23 May 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Sloane Crosley is the author of the essay collection LOOK ALIVE OUT THERE (MCD Books). Crosley's other books include the bestselling essay collections...

521. Tao Lin

20 May 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Brad Listi talks with Tao Lin, author of TRIP: PSYCHEDELICS, ALIENATION, AND CHANGE (Vintage). Lin's other books include Taipei (2013), Richard Yates ...

520. Jonathan Ames

16 May 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Jonathan Ames is the author of the novel YOU WERE NEVER REALLY HERE (Pushkin Press), now a major motion picture starring Joaquin Phoenix. Ames' other ...

519. Melissa Broder

09 May 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Melissa Broder is the author of the debut novel THE PISCES, available now from Hogarth Press. Broder is the author of four poetry collections, includi...

518. Susan Henderson

06 May 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Susan Henderson is the author of the novel THE FLICKER OF OLD DREAMS (Harper Perennial). Henderson is a five-time Pushcart Prize nominee and the recip...

517. Lauren Grodstein

02 May 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Lauren Grodstein is the author of the novel OUR SHORT HISTORY, available from Algonquin Books. Grodstein is the author of four other novels, including...

516. Sarah Kendzior

25 Apr 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Sarah Kendzior is the author of the essay collection THE VIEW FROM FLYOVER COUNTRY: DISPATCHES FROM THE FORGOTTEN AMERICA (Flatiron Books). A frequent...

515. Natalia Sylvester

25 Apr 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Natalia Sylvester is the author of the novel EVERYONE KNOWS YOU GO HOME (Little A Books). Sylvester was born in Lima, Peru and came to the U.S. at age...

514. Elle Nash

22 Apr 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Elle Nash is the author of the novel ANIMALS EAT EACH OTHER (Dzanc Books). It is the official April pick of The Nervous Breakdown Book Club. Nash's ot...

513. Steve Almond

18 Apr 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Brad Listi talks with Steve Almond, author of BAD STORIES: WHAT THE HELL JUST HAPPENED TO OUR COUNTRY? (Red Hen Press). Almond is the author of nine b...

512. Shauna Barbosa

11 Apr 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Shauna Barbosa is the author of the poetry collection CAPE VERDEAN BLUES (University of Pittsburgh Press). Barbosa's poems have appeared or are forthc...

511. Jami Attenberg

04 Apr 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Jami Attenberg is the bestselling author of the novel ALL GROWN UP, available in trade paperback from Mariner Books. Attenberg has written about sex, ...

510. Will Mackin

28 Mar 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Will Mackin is the author of the story collection BRING OUT THE DOG, available from Random House. Mackin is a veteran of the U.S. Navy His work has ap...

509. Lynne Tillman

21 Mar 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Brad Listi talks with Lynne Tillman, author of the novel MEN AND APPARITIONS, available from Soft Skull Press. Her novels include Haunted Houses; Moti...

508. Troy James Weaver

14 Mar 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Troy James Weaver is the author of the novel TEMPORAL, available from Disorder Press. Weaver is the author of three other books—WITCHITA STORIES, M...

507. Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi

07 Mar 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi is the author of the novel CALL ME ZEBRA (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt). Oloomi is the winner of a 2015 Whiting Writers' Awa...

506. Elif Batuman

28 Feb 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Elif Batuman is the author of the bestselling debut novel THE IDIOT, available in trade paperback from Penguin. Batuman's first book, THE POSSESSED (...

505. Willy Vlautin

21 Feb 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Willy Vlautin is the author of the novel DON'T SKIP OUT ON ME (Harper Perennial). It is the official February pick of The Nervous Breakdown Book Club....

504. Rachel Lyon

14 Feb 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Rachel Lyon is the author of the debut novel SELF-PORTRAIT WITH BOY (Scribner). Lyon teaches for the Sackett Street Writers Workshop, Catapult, Slice,...

503. Liska Jacobs

07 Feb 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Liska Jacobs is the author of the debut novel CATALINA, available from MCD/FSG. Jacobs holds an MFA from the University of California, Riverside. Her...

502. Debbie Graber

31 Jan 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Debbie Graber is the author of KEVIN KRAMER STARTS ON MONDAY, available now from Unnamed Press. Graber's fiction has appeared in Harpers, Zyzzyva, Hob...

501. Tim Wirkus

24 Jan 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Tim Wirkus is the author of the novel THE INFINITE FUTURE (Penguin Press). Wirkus is the author of one previous novel, CITY OF BRICK AND SHADOW (Tyrus...

500. Clay Byars

17 Jan 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Clay Byars is the author of the memoir WILL & I, available from FSG Originals. Byars attended The School of Letters at Sewanee, Tennessee. His work ha...

Episode 499 — Lauren Haldeman

10 Jan 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Brad Listi talks with Lauren Haldeman, author of the poetry collection INSTEAD OF DYING (Center for Literary Publishing at Colorado State University)....

Goodbye 2017 with Adam & Gene

29 Dec 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Brad Listi, Adam Greenfield, and Gene Morgan gather in the studio to reflect on 2017 and eat some homemade bread, trying hard to end the year on a hig...

Episode 498 — Daniel A. Hoyt

20 Dec 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Brad Listi talks with Daniel A. Hoyt, author of the novel THIS BOOK IS NOT FOR YOU, available from Dzanc Books. It is the recipient of the Dzanc Ficti...

Episode 497 — Patty Schemel and Erin Hosier

13 Dec 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Brad Listi talks with Patty Schemel and Erin Hosier. Schemel was the drummer for the rock band Hole from 1992-98 and has just published a memoir calle...

Episode 496 — Bud Smith

06 Dec 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Brad Listi talks with author Bud Smith about his new memoir WORK, available from Civil Coping Mechanisms. Smith is a writer from New Jersey who also w...

Episode 495 — Ivy Pochoda

29 Nov 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Brad Listi talks with Ivy Pochoda, author of the novel WONDER VALLEY (Ecco Press). Her previous books include THE ART OF DISAPPEARING and the critical...