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Otherppl with Brad Listi

Otherppl with Brad Listi is a weekly books and culture podcast featuring in-depth conversations with today"s leading authors. Literature, screenwriting, the creative process, pop culture, and more. Available wherever you get your podcasts. Follow the show on Bluesky and Instagram.

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Cazando Esteban

Otherppl with Brad Listi ·

2025/06/12

Volume 46 of Brad & Mira For the Culture...the Gestapo police state insanity in LA...hunting a nude and terrified Stephen...Katie Perry's album fail is causing "tension"....the perils of the "Hollywood fake passionate love affair marketing scheme"...Tom Cruise at 100...Harrison Ford's ageless libido...and more... *** ⁠⁠Otherppl with Brad Listi⁠⁠ is a weekly podcast featuring in-depth interviews with today's leading writers. Available where podcasts are available: ⁠⁠Apple

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90:56

971. Claire Hoffman

Otherppl with Brad Listi ·

2025/06/10

Claire Hoffman is the author of Sister, Sinner: The Miraculous Life and Mysterious Disappearance of Aimee Semple McPherson, available from Farrar, Straus, & Giroux. Hoffman is also the author of the memoir Greetings from Utopia Park and is a journalist reporting for national magazines on culture, religion, celebrity, business, and more. She was formerly a staff reporter for the Los Angeles Times and Rolling Stone. She is a graduate of UC Santa Cruz, and has an MA in religion from the University of

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84:52

John, 36, Graduate Student

Otherppl with Brad Listi ·

2025/06/08

Character Study, Vol. 13. 'Character Studies' is a new series on the podcast featuring interviews with 'civilians'—ordinary adult humans of all ages and backgrounds, talking with Brad about their lives, anonymously.In Vol. 13, a conversation with John, 36, a graduate student from Central New Jersey. *** ⁠⁠⁠⁠Otherppl with Brad Listi⁠⁠⁠⁠ is a weekly podcast featuring in-depth interviews with today's leading writers. Available where podcasts are available: ⁠⁠⁠⁠Apple

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90:27

For Sale: Knicks Lingerie, Never Worn

Otherppl with Brad Listi ·

2025/06/05

Volume 45 of Brad & Mira For the Culture...Mira's dog and its bloody ass...Mira does LSD in Las Vegas and forgets how to play blackjack...the Pacers beat the Knicks, shattering Timothee's beautiful pink heart...Angry Adam weighs in on the prostate...Brad gets cancelled over the Swimsuit Issue...Emmanuel Macron's Mary Kay Letourneau marriage...and more... *** ⁠Otherppl with Brad Listi⁠ is a weekly podcast featuring in-depth interviews with today's leading writers. Available where podcasts are

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76:14

970. Andrew Lipstein

Otherppl with Brad Listi ·

2025/06/03

Andrew Lipstein is the author of the novel Something Rotten, available from Farrar, Straus, & Giroux.Lipstein's other novels are Last Resort (2022) and The Vegan (2023). He lives in Brooklyn, New York, with his wife and three sons. *** ⁠⁠Otherppl with Brad Listi⁠⁠⁠⁠ is a weekly podcast featuring in-depth interviews with today's leading writers. Available where podcasts are available: ⁠⁠⁠⁠Apple Podcasts⁠⁠⁠⁠, ⁠⁠⁠⁠Spotify⁠⁠⁠⁠, ⁠⁠⁠⁠YouTube⁠⁠⁠⁠, etc. Subscribe to ⁠⁠⁠⁠Brad Listi’s email

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86:41

Sam, 40, Filmmaker and Visual Strategist

Otherppl with Brad Listi ·

2025/06/01

Character Study, Vol. 12. 'Character Studies' is a new series on the podcast featuring interviews with 'civilians'—ordinary adult humans of all ages and backgrounds, talking with Brad about their lives, anonymously. In Vol. 12, a conversation with Sam, 40, a filmmaker and visual strategist from Los Angeles. *** ⁠⁠⁠Otherppl with Brad Listi⁠⁠⁠ is a weekly podcast featuring in-depth interviews with today's leading writers. Available where podcasts are available: ⁠⁠⁠Apple

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78:23

969. Vauhini Vara

Otherppl with Brad Listi ·

2025/05/29

Vauhini Vara is the author of Searches: Selfhood in the Digital Age, available from Pantheon Books. Vara has been a reporter and editor for The Atlantic, The New Yorker, and the New York Times Magazine, and is the prize-winning author of The Immortal King Rao and This is Salvaged. She lives in Fort Collins, Colorado. *** ⁠Otherppl with Brad Listi⁠⁠⁠ is a weekly podcast featuring in-depth interviews with today's leading writers. Available where podcasts are available: ⁠⁠⁠Apple

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75:43

968. Kate Folk

Otherppl with Brad Listi ·

2025/05/27

Kate Folk is the author of the debut novel Sky Daddy, available from Random House. Folk is also the author of the debut short story collection Out There. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times, Granta, McSweeney’s Quarterly Concern, and Zyzzyva. A former Stegner Fellow at Stanford University, she’s also received support from the Headlands Center for the Arts, MacDowell, and Willapa Bay AiR. She lives in San Francisco. *** Otherppl with Brad Listi⁠⁠ is a weekly podcast

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967. J. Robert Lennon

Otherppl with Brad Listi ·

2025/05/25

J. Robert Lennon is the author of the novel Buzz Kill, available from Mulholland Books. It is the official May pick of the Otherppl Book Club. Lennon is the author of two story collections, Pieces For The Left Hand and See You in Paradise, and eight novels, including Mailman, Castle, Familiar, Broken River, and most recently, Hard Girls. He holds an MFA from the University of Montana, and has published short fiction in The New Yorker, Harper's, Playboy, Granta, The Paris Review, Electric

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78:20

The Prostate Episode

Otherppl with Brad Listi ·

2025/05/22

Volume 44 of Brad & Mira For the Culture...Brad learns what a prostate is...The Punisher takes the stand in the Diddy trial...the crucifixion of Kevin Spacey...and more... *** ⁠Otherppl with Brad Listi⁠ is a weekly podcast featuring in-depth interviews with today's leading writers. Available where podcasts are available: ⁠Apple Podcasts⁠, ⁠Spotify⁠, ⁠YouTube⁠, etc. Subscribe to ⁠Brad Listi’s email newsletter⁠. ⁠Support the show on

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966. Honor Jones

Otherppl with Brad Listi ·

2025/05/20

Honor Jones is the author of the debut novel Sleep, available from Riverhead Books. Jones is a senior editor at The Atlantic, and previously at The New York Times. She lives in Brooklyn with her three children. ⁠⁠⁠Otherppl with Brad Listi⁠⁠⁠ is a weekly podcast featuring in-depth interviews with today's leading writers. Available where podcasts are available: ⁠⁠⁠Apple Podcasts⁠⁠⁠, ⁠⁠⁠Spotify⁠⁠⁠, ⁠⁠⁠YouTube⁠⁠⁠, etc. Subscribe to ⁠⁠⁠Brad Listi’s email newsletter⁠⁠⁠. ⁠⁠⁠Support the show on

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90:28

Kalen, 47, Blue Man Group Performer

Otherppl with Brad Listi ·

2025/05/18

Character Study, Vol. 11. 'Character Studies' is a new series on the podcast featuring interviews with 'civilians'—ordinary adult humans of all ages and backgrounds, talking with Brad about their lives, anonymously.In Vol. 11, a conversation with Kalen, 47, a Blue Man Group performer from Las Vegas, Nevada. *** ⁠⁠⁠Otherppl with Brad Listi⁠⁠⁠ is a weekly podcast featuring in-depth interviews with today's leading writers. Available where podcasts are available: ⁠⁠⁠Apple

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108:59

Rosanna Norton 4Ever

Otherppl with Brad Listi ·

2025/05/15

Volume 43 of Brad & Mira For the Culture...remembering Mira's amazing grandmother, Rosanna Norton, who once bore witness to Peter Fonda's enormous genitalia...assessing the conclave and the new Chicago Pope..sifting through the toxic waste of the Diddy trial...Is Bill Belichick dating a Red Sparrow???...and more... *** Otherppl with Brad Listi is a weekly podcast featuring in-depth interviews with today's leading writers. Available where podcasts are available: Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube,

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84:09

965. Ocean Vuong

Otherppl with Brad Listi ·

2025/05/13

Ocean Vuong is the author of the novel The Emperor of Gladness, available from Penguin Press.Ocean's other books include the critically acclaimed poetry collections Night Sky with Exit Wounds and Time Is a Mother, as well as the New York Times bestselling novel On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous. A recipient of the MacArthur Fellowship and the American Book Award, he used to work as a fast-food server, which inspired The Emperor of Gladness. Born in Saigon, Vietnam, he currently splits his time

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83:08

Vanessa, Age??, Vegan Activist

Otherppl with Brad Listi ·

2025/05/11

Character Study, Vol. 10. 'Character Studies' is a new series on the podcast featuring interviews with 'civilians'—ordinary adult humans of all ages and backgrounds, talking with Brad about their lives, anonymously. In Vol. 10, a conversation with Vanessa, a woman of unspecified age, a vegan activist from Los Angeles, California. *** ⁠⁠Otherppl with Brad Listi⁠⁠ is a weekly podcast featuring in-depth interviews with today's leading writers. Available where podcasts are available: ⁠⁠Apple

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73:13

964. Katie Kitamura

Otherppl with Brad Listi ·

2025/05/08

Katie Kitamura is the author of the novel Audition, available from Riverhead Books. Kitamura's other novels include A Separation and Intimacies, which was longlisted for the National Book Award and the PEN/Faulkner Award and was a finalist for a Joyce Carol Oates Prize. She is a recipient of the Rome Prize in Literature, a Lannan fellowship, and many other honors, and her work has been translated into twenty-one languages. She teaches in the creative writing program at New York

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963. Jonathan Evison

Otherppl with Brad Listi ·

2025/05/06

Jonathan Evison is the author of the novel The Heart of Winter, available from Dutton. Evison's other novels include Again and Again; Small World; All About Lulu; West of Here; The Revised Fundamentals of Caregiving; This Is Your Life, Harriet Chance!; Lawn Boy; and Legends of the North Cascades. He lives with his wife and family in Washington State. He hosts the podcast A Fresh Face in Hell. *** Otherppl with Brad Listi is a weekly podcast featuring in-depth interviews with today's leading

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73:39

Tyler, 38, Social Worker

Otherppl with Brad Listi ·

2025/05/04

Character Study, Vol. 9. 'Character Studies' is a new series on the podcast featuring interviews with 'civilians'—ordinary adult humans of all ages and backgrounds, talking with Brad about their lives, anonymously.In Vol. 9, a conversation with a 38-year-old man named Tyler, a social worker from Portland, Maine. *** ⁠Otherppl with Brad Listi⁠ is a weekly podcast featuring in-depth interviews with today's leading writers. Available where podcasts are available: ⁠Apple

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78:08

A Pep Talk for Writers, with Maggie Smith

Otherppl with Brad Listi ·

2025/05/01

A new Craftwork conversation with Maggie Smith, bestselling author of Dear Writer: Pep Talks & Practical Advice for the Creative Life, available from Washington Square Press.Smith's other books includeYou Could Make This Place Beautiful, Good Bones, Goldenrod, Keep Moving, and My Thoughts Have Wings. A 2011 recipient of a Creative Writing Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, Smith has also received a Pushcart Prize, and numerous grants and awards from the Academy of American Poets,

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87:09

How to Make a Living As a Writer

Otherppl with Brad Listi ·

2025/04/29

A new Craftwork conversation about the business of being a writer with Jane Friedman. Her book, The Business of Being a Writer, is now available in an updated second edition from the University of Chicago Press.Friedman has spent 25+ years working in the publishing industry, with a focus on business reporting and author education. Established in 2015, her newsletter The Bottom Line provides nuanced market intelligence to thousands of authors and industry professionals; in 2023, she was named

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