Otherppl with Brad Listi
Episodes
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...
Episode 494 — Panio Gianopoulos
26 Nov 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Brad Listi talks with Panio Gianopoulos, author of the story collection HOW TO GET INTO OUR HOUSE AND WHERE WE KEEP THE MONEY, available now from Four...
Episode 493 — Emily Geminder
22 Nov 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Brad Listi talks with Emily Geminder, author of DEAD GIRLS AND OTHER STORIES, winner of the Dzanc Books Short Story Prize. Geminder's work has appeare...
Episode 492 — Elizabeth Ellen
15 Nov 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Brad Listi talks with Elizabeth Ellen, author of the story collection SAUL STORIES (Short Flight / Long Drive Books). Earlier this year, she published...
Episode 491 — Carmen Maria Machado
08 Nov 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Brad Listi talks with Carmen Maria Machado, author of the story collection HER BODY AND OTHER PARTIES, available now from Graywolf Press. It is a fina...
Episode 490 — Jarret Middleton
01 Nov 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Brad Listi talks with Jarret Middleton, author of the debut novel DARKANSAS, available now from Dzanc Books. It is the official November selection of ...
Episode 489 — Will Dowd
25 Oct 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Brad Listi talks with Will Dowd, author of the essay collection AREAS OF FOG, due out from Etruscan Press on November 14, 2017. Dowd is a writer and a...
Episode 488 — Tod Goldberg
18 Oct 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Brad Listi talks with Tod Goldberg, New York Times bestselling novelist and author of GANGSTER NATION, available now from Counterpoint Press. Goldberg...
Episode 487 — Vanessa Grigoriadis
15 Oct 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Brad Listi talks with Vanessa Grigoriadis, author of BLURRED LINES: RETHINKING SEX, POWER, & CONSENT ON CAMPUS, available now from Houghton Mifflin Ha...
Episode 486 — Chelsea Martin
11 Oct 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Brad Listi talks with Chelsea Martin, author of the essay collection CACA DOLCE: ESSAYS FROM A LOWBROW LIFE, available now from Soft Skull Press. Mart...
Episode 485 — Ayobami Adebayo
04 Oct 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Brad Listi talks with Ayobami Adebayo, author of the debut novel STAY WITH ME, available now from Knopf. Her stories have appeared in a number of maga...
Episode 484 — Karl Geary
27 Sep 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Brad Listi talks with Karl Geary, author of the debut novel MONTPELIER PARADE, available from Catapult. Geary was born in Dublin, and moved to New Yor...
Episode 483 — Lisa Lucas
24 Sep 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Brad Listi talks with Lisa Lucas, Executive Director of the National Book Foundation. Prior to joining the Foundation, she served as the Publisher of ...
Episode 482 — Chiara Barzini
20 Sep 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Brad Listi talks with Chiara Barzini, author of the debut novel THINGS THAT HAPPENED BEFORE THE EARTHQUAKE, available from Doubleday. Barzini is a scr...
Episode 481 — Margaret Wilkerson Sexton
13 Sep 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Brad Listi talks with Margaret Wilkerson Sexton, author of the debut novel A KIND OF FREEDOM, available from Counterpoint Press. It was recently long-...
Episode 480 — Alex Gilvarry
06 Sep 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Brad Listi talks with Alex Gilvarry, author of the novel EASTMAN WAS HERE, available from Viking. It is the official September pick of The Nervous Bre...
Episode 479 — Ben Loory
30 Aug 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Brad Listi talks with Ben Loory, author of the new story collection TALES OF FALLING AND FLYING, available from Penguin. Loory has appeared 'This Amer...
Episode 478 — Jared Yates Sexton
23 Aug 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Brad Listi talks with Jared Yates Sexton, author of the new book THE PEOPLE ARE GOING TO RISE LIKE THE WATERS UPON YOUR SHORE, available from Counterp...
Episode 477 — Matthew Zapruder
09 Aug 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Brad Listi talks with Matthew Zapruder, author of the new book WHY POETRY, available from Ecco. Zapruder is an award-winning poet, editor, translator,...
Episode 476 — Jarett Kobek
02 Aug 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Brad Listi talks with Jarett Kobek, author of the novels THE FUTURE WON'T BE LONG (Viking Press) and I HATE THE INTERNET (We Heard You Like Books). Th...
Episode 475 — Fiona Helmsley
26 Jul 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Fiona Helmsley is the guest. Her new essay collection, Girls Gone Old, is available from We Heard You Like Books. In today's monologue, I talk about s...
Episode 474 — Siel Ju
19 Jul 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Siel Ju is the guest. Her new novel-in-stories, Cake Time, is available from Red Hen Press. In today's monologue, I talk about some recent celebrity i...
Episode 473 — Scott McClanahan
12 Jul 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Scott McClanahan is the guest. His new novel The Sarah Book is now available from Tyrant Books. It is the official July pick of The Nervous Breakdow...
Episode 472 — Julia Fierro
28 Jun 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Julia Fierro is the guest. Her new novel, The Gypsy Moth Summer, is available now from St. Martin's Press. This is Julia's second time on the program...
Episode 471 — Nathan Hill
21 Jun 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Nathan Hill is the guest. His debut novel The Nix is now available in trade paperback from Vintage. In today's monologue, I read some listener mail ...
Episode 470 — Jonathan Safran Foer
14 Jun 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Jonathan Safran Foer is the guest. His latest novel, Here I Am, is available now in trade paperback from Picador. It is the official June selection of...
Episode 469 — Paula Priamos
07 Jun 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Paula Priamos is the guest. Her new novel, Inside V, is now available from Rare Bird Books. In today's monologue, I talk about Trump and answer some m...
Episode 468 — Charmaine Craig
31 May 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Charmaine Craig is the guest. Her new novel, Miss Burma, is available now from Grove Press. In today's monologue, I talk about the apparent death of m...
Episode 467 — Amelia Gray
24 May 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Amelia Gray is the guest. Her new novel Isadora is available now from Farrar, Straus, & Giroux. In today's monologue, I eulogize my dog Walter. L...
Episode 466 — Elizabeth L. Silver
17 May 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Elizabeth L. Silver is the guest. Her new memoir, The Tincture of Time, is available now from Penguin. In today's monologue—which is long—I talk a...
Episode 465 — Erika Carter
10 May 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Erika Carter is the guest. Her debut novel Lucky You is available now from Counterpoint. In today's monologue, I talk about the Republican health ca...
Episode 464 — Brian McGreevy
03 May 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Brian McGreevy is the guest. His new novel, The Lights, is available from Rare Bird Books. Brian is also a co-creator of the AMC series The Son, base...
Episode 463 — Annabelle Gurwitch
26 Apr 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Annabelle Gurwitch is the guest. Her new book, Wherever You Go, There They Are: Stories About My Family You Might Relate To, is available now from B...
Episode 462 — Lidia Yuknavitch
19 Apr 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Lidia Yuknavitch is the guest. Her new novel, The Book of Joan, is available now from Harper. It is the official April selection of The Nervous Breakd...
Episode 461 — Michael Finkel
12 Apr 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Michael Finkel is the guest. He is the author of True Story: Murder, Memoir, Mea Culpa, which was made into a film starring Jonah Hill and James Fra...
Episode 460 — Melissa Febos
05 Apr 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Melissa Febos is the guest. Her new memoir is called Abandon Me, available now from Bloomsbury. This is Melissa's second appearance on the program...
Episode 459 — Ron Currie
29 Mar 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Ron Currie is the guest. His new novel, The One-Eyed Man, is available now from Viking. It is the official March selection of The Nervous Breakdown Bo...
Episode 458 — Abigail Ulman
22 Mar 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Abigail Ulman is the guest. Her debut story collection, Hot Little Hands, is now available from Spiegel & Grau. In today's monologue, I talk about ...
Episode 457 — Kristin Dombek
15 Mar 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Kristin Dombek is the guest. Her new book, The Selfishness of Others: An Essay on the Fear of Narcissism, is available now from FSG Originals. In ...
Episode 456 — David Berenbaum
08 Mar 2017
Contributed by Lukas
David Berenbaum is the guest. He is an accomplished screenwriter whose credits include the Christmas classic Elf, directed by Jon Favreau and starrin...
Episode 455 — Min Jin Lee
01 Mar 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Min Jin Lee is the guest. Her new novel, Pachinko, is available now from Grand Central Publishing. It is the official February pick of The Nervous Bre...
Episode 454 — David Shields
22 Feb 2017
Contributed by Lukas
David Shields is the guest. His new book, Other People: Takes and Mistakes, is available now from Knopf. David last appeared on this program on Epi...
Episode 453 — Natashia Deón
15 Feb 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Natashia Deón is the guest. Her debut novel is called Grace. It is available now from Counterpoint Press. In today's monologue, I offer outtakes fro...
Episode 452 — Sarah Manguso
08 Feb 2017
Contributed by Lukas
�Sarah Manguso is the guest. Her new book, 300 Arguments, is available now from Graywolf Press. In today's monologue, I basically just get right to ...
Episode 451 — Jonathan Herman
01 Feb 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Jonathan Herman is the guest. He is an Oscar-nominated screenwriter of the film Straight Outta Compton. In today's monologue, I talk about my new em...
Episode 450 — Tom McAllister
25 Jan 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Tom McAllister�� is the guest. His debut novel The Young Widower's Handbook is available now from Algonquin Books. It is the official January pic...
Episode 449 — Lindsey Lee Johnson
18 Jan 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Lindsey Lee Johnson is the guest. Her debut novel, The Most Dangerous Place on Earth, is available now from Random House. In today's monologue, I rea...
Episode 448 — Roxane Gay
11 Jan 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Roxane Gay is the guest. Her new story collection, Difficult Women, is available now from Grove Press. This is Roxane's second appearance on the podc...
Episode 447 — Vanessa Hua
04 Jan 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Vanessa Hua is the guest. Her debut story collection, Deceit and Other Possibilities, is available now from Willow Press. In today's monologue, I ...
Episode 446 — Masande Ntshanga
28 Dec 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Masande Ntshanga is the guest. His debut novel The Reactive is now available in the United States from Two Dollar Radio. It is the official December...
Episode 445 — Holiday Spectacular
22 Dec 2016
Contributed by Lukas
This is the second annual Holiday Spectacular. The guests are Melissa Broder, Gene and Jenny Schlief Morgan, Amelia Gray, Lee Shipman, Ben Loory, Rich...
Episode 444 — The Oracle of Los Angeles
21 Dec 2016
Contributed by Lukas
The Oracle of Los Angeles is the guest. Her name is Amanda Yates Garcia. She is an artist, writer, witch, healer, and oracle. Recent performance ritu...
Episode 443 — Jason Diamond
14 Dec 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Jason Diamond is the guest. His new memoir Searching for John Hughes is available now from William Morrow. In today's monologue, I talk about the c...
Episode 442 — Adam Soldofsky
07 Dec 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Adam Soldofsky is the guest. His new poetry collection, Memory Foam, is available now from Disorder Press. In today's monologue, I talk about cold me...
Episode 441 — Kool A.D.
30 Nov 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Kool A.D. is the guest. His new novel OK is available now from Sorry House. In today's monologue, I talk about Kool A.D. and how he describes his...
Episode 440 — Sonya Chung
23 Nov 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Sonya Chung is the guest. Her new novel The Loved Ones is available now from Relegation Books. It was the official October pick of The Nervous Breakd...
Episode 439 — Jade Chang
16 Nov 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Jade Chang is the guest. Her debut novel The Wangs vs. the World is available now from Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. In today's monologue, I talk about...
Thoughts on Election 2016
09 Nov 2016
Contributed by Lukas
I'm not doing a regular show this week. It's the day after the election and I'm not feeling all that great. It seems wrong to do a show. The only thin...
Episode 438 — Michelle Tea
02 Nov 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Michelle Tea is the guest. Her new novel, Black Wave, is available now from Feminist Press. In today's monologue, I talk about Halloween. Learn mo...
Episode 437 — Meredith Alling
26 Oct 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Meredith Alling is the guest. Her debut story collection Sing the Song is available now from Future Tense Books. In today's monologue, I talk briefl...
Episode 436 — Wendy C. Ortiz
19 Oct 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Wendy C. Ortiz is the guest. Her new book Bruja—a "dreamoir"—is available now from Civil Coping Mechanisms. In today's monologue, I basically ju...
Episode 435 — Mike Roberts
12 Oct 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Mike Roberts is the guest. His debut novel, Cannibals in Love, is available now from FSG Originals. He also wrote the screenplay for the movie Goat, o...
Episode 434 — Melissa Yancy
05 Oct 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Melissa Yancy is the guest. Her debut story collection, Dog Years, is available now from the University of Pittsburgh Press. In today's monologue,...
Episode 433 — Rich Ferguson
28 Sep 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Rich Ferguson is the guest. His debut novel, New Jersey Me, is available now from Rare Bird Books / A Barnacle Book. In today's monologue, I talk abo...
Episode 432 — 5 Years of Otherppl
21 Sep 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Today's episode is a bit unorthodox. It's just me talking for an hour. Sorry about that. As most of you know, the podcast has been homeless since June...
Episode 431 — Nicole Dennis-Benn
14 Sep 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Nicole Dennis-Benn is the guest. Her debut novel Here Comes the Sun is available now from Liveright. It is the official September pick of The Nervou...
Episode 430 — Garth Risk Hallberg
08 Sep 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Garth Risk Hallberg is the guest. His debut novel, City on Fire, is available now in trade paperback from Vintage. In today's monologue, I talk brief...
Episode 429 — Margaret Wappler
31 Aug 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Margaret Wappler is the guest. Her debut novel Neon Green is available now from The Unnamed Press. This is the final conversation recorded in the old...
Episode 428 — S.J. Watson
24 Aug 2016
Contributed by Lukas
S.J. Watson is the guest. His novel Second Life is available now in paperback from Harper. It was the official July pick of The Nervous Breakdown Boo...
Episode 427 — Lesley M. M. Blume
17 Aug 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Lesley M. M. Blume is the guest. Her new book is called Everybody Behaves Badly: The True Story Behind Hemingway's Masterpiece The Sun Also Rises,...
Episode 426 — Jonathan Franzen
10 Aug 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Jonathan Franzen is the guest. His latest novel, Purity, is available now in trade paperback from Picador. It is the official August selection of The ...
Episode 425 — Dorthe Nors
03 Aug 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Dorthe Nors is the guest. Her new book, So Much For That Winter, is available now in the United States from Graywolf Press. I had a great time talkin...
Episode 424 — Sloane Crosley
27 Jul 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Sloane Crosley is the guest. Her debut novel, The Clasp, is available now in trade paperback from Picador. A great pleasure to have Sloane on the...
Episode 423 — Chuck Klosterman
20 Jul 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Chuck Klosterman is the guest. His new book, But What If We're Wrong?: Thinking About the Present As If It Were the Past, is available now from Blue...
Episode 422 — Frances Stroh
13 Jul 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Frances Stroh is the guest. Her new memoir, Beer Money, is available now from Harper. In today's monologue, I talk about the logistics of vacationing...