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Since Sep 2011
Latest Episode Jun 2026

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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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Brad vs. The Volcano

Jun 11, 2026 1h 30m

Volume 93 of Brad & Mira For the Culture...the podcast is huge in Vietnam...Mira's male antagonists go low, Mira goes lower...evaluating the Twitter fallout of her Twitter clash with musician…

1039. Anne Enright

Jun 09, 2026 1h 7m

Anne Enright is the author of Attention: Writing on Life, Art, and the World, available from W. W. Norton & Co. Enright is the author of eight novels, most recently The Wren, the Wren. She has…

REPLAY: Rex Pickett on 'Sideways,' Hollywood, and Adventures in Wine Country

Jun 07, 2026 1h 12m

Today on the program, a trip into the archive and a return to Episode 33, my conversation with Rex Pickett, author of the novel Sideways, which was adapted for the screen to great acclaim by…

1038. Tracy Lynne Oliver

Jun 06, 2026 1h 7m

Tracy Lynne Oliver is the author of the debut novel Magician, available from Roxane Gay Books. Oliver is a writer based in Los Angeles. She has been published online at a variety of places such…

Nobody Puts Mira in a Corner

Jun 04, 2026 1h 33m

Volume 92 of Brad & Mira For the Culture...Mira is on muscle relaxers again...and 150mg of THC...watched Dirty Dancing for the first time...experiences a sexual awakening...Brad contemplates…

1037. Luke Goebel

Jun 02, 2026 1h 5m

Luke Goebel is the author of the novel Kill Dick, available from Red Hen Press. Goebel is also the author of the debut novel, Fourteen Stories, None of Them Are Yours. And he co-wrote the screenplays…

REPLAY: Timothy Willis Sanders on Anxiety, Stalin, and Male Vulnerability

May 31, 2026 1h 23m

Today on the program, a trip into the archive and a return to Episode 788, my conversation with Timothy Willis Sanders, author of the story collection Modern Massacres (Publishing Genius). Air date:…

Excerpt from 'Kill Dick,' by Luke Goebel

May 30, 2026 18m

Vol. 11 of Story Time, a new series on the program featuring an author reading aloud from his work. In this episode, Luke Goebel⁠ reads from his new novel, Kill Dick (Red Hen Press). Goebel is also…

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May 28, 2026 1h 31m

Volume 91 of Brad & Mira For the Culture...Mira sees Obsession...theorizes that lots of film directors are dumb...Mira goes to see Bright Eyes in concert...relives her tortured youth...openly…

1036. Kyle McCarthy

May 26, 2026 1h 11m

Kyle McCarthy is the author of the novel Immersions, available from Tin House. It is the official May pick of the Otherppl Book Club. McCarthy's debut novel is called Everyone Knows How Much I Love…

REPLAY: Nick Flynn on Hard Writing, Compassion, and Confronting the Ghosts of the Past

May 24, 2026 1h 19m

Today on the program, a trip into the archive and a return to Episode 667, my conversation with Nick Flynn, author of the acclaimed memoir This is the Night Our House Will Catch Fire (W. W. Norton…

Excerpt from 'Immersions,' by Kyle McCarthy

May 23, 2026 20m

Vol. 10 of Story Time, a new series on the program featuring an author reading aloud from his work. In this episode,  Kyle McCarthy reads from her new novel, Immersions, the official May pick of the…

Vive la Travolta

May 21, 2026 1h 32m

Volume 90 of Brad & Mira For the Culture...Mira triumphs at her grandmother's funeral...gives a stirring keynote...her health problems seem to be abating...stressing about Spencer Pratt...Mira's…

1035. Sonya Walger

May 19, 2026 1h 13m

Sonya Walger is the author of the novel Wifehouse, available from Union Square Press. Walger is an award-winning actress, best known for her role as Penny Widmore on Lost and Molly Cobb in the first…

REPLAY: Clancy Martin on How Not to Kill Yourself

May 17, 2026 1h 44m

Today on the program, a trip into the archive and a return to Episode 825, my conversation with Clancy Martin, author of How Not to Kill Yourself: A Portrait of the Suicidal Mind (Pantheon). Air…

1034. Daniel Kraus

May 16, 2026 1h 10m

Daniel Kraus is the author of the novel Angel Down, available from Atria Books. It was awarded the 2026 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. Daniel Kraus is a New York Times bestselling writer of novels, TV,…

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May 14, 2026 1h 28m

Volume 89 of Brad & Mira For the Culture...the return of Mira...still alive...describes her health ordeal...Brad's colonoscopy journey...his true crime spiral continues...gets reprimanded for…

1033. Patrick Radden Keefe

May 12, 2026 1h 13m

Patrick Radden Keefe is a staff writer for The New Yorker and the New York Times bestselling author of London Falling: A Mysterious Death in a Gilded City and a Family's Search for Truth…

REPLAY: Susan Choi on the Pandemic, Winning the National Book Award, and the Lasting Effects of Childhood

May 10, 2026 1h 32m

Today on the program, a trip into the archive and a return to Episode 647, my first conversation with author Susan Choi. We were discussing her National Book Award-winning novel, Trust Excerise. Air…

Excerpt from 'I Am the Ghost Here,' by Kim Samek

May 09, 2026 24m

Vol. 9 of Story Time, a new series on the program featuring an author reading aloud from his work. In this episode,  Kim Samek reads the title story from her acclaimed debut collection, I Am the…

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