Otherppl with Brad Listi
Otherppl with Brad Listi is a weekly literary podcast featuring in-depth conversations with today's leading authors. Books, writing, literature, screenwriting, the creative process, and more. Available wherever you get your podcasts. Watch it on the Otherppl YouTube channel. Follow the show on Twitter and Instagram.
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July 15, 2025 • 90 mins
Kashana Cauley is the author of the novel The Payback, available from Atria Books.
Cauley's other novel is calledThe Survivalists, which was named a best book of 2023 by the BBC, Today, Vogue, and more. She is also a television writer, having worked on The Great North, Pod Save America on HBO, and The Daily Show with Trevor Noah. Her writing has also appeared in The New York Times, The Atlantic, Esquire, Rolling Stone, The New Yor...
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July 13, 2025 • 54 mins
In today's episode, I'm sharing an exclusive sneak preview of How to Write a Novel, the debut audio course from my new company, DeepDive, which will be launching soon.
How to Write a Novel is hosted by yours truly, and it features more than 50 hours of insight and instruction from dozens of today's leading contemporary authors, including Emily St. John Mandel, Melissa Broder, Stephen Graham Jones, V. V. Ganeshananthan, Ingrid Ro...
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July 10, 2025 • 99 mins
Volume 50 of Brad & Mira For the Culture...Mira experiences back pain, takes 100mg of THC...Brad recaps his chaotic vacation...the shittiest 4th of July ever...America's obsession with hot dog eating...fireworks...Diddy gets semi-acquitted...baby oil celebrations...the great Epstein cover-up...Denise Richards and her reiki masseuse husband are divorcing...and more...
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July 8, 2025 • 87 mins
Jessa Crispin is the author of What Is Wrong With Men: Patriarchy, The Crisis of Masculinity, and How (Of Course) Michael Douglas Films Explain Everything, available from Pantheon Books.
Jessa's other books include Why I Am Not a Feminist: A Feminist Manifesto, The Dead Ladies Project, and My Three Dads. She is the editor and founder of The Culture We Deserve as well as host with Nico Rodriguez of TCWD weekly podcast. In 2002, she...
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July 6, 2025 • 78 mins
Geoff Dyer is the author of the memoir Homework, available from Farrar, Straus, & Giroux.
Dyer's other books include The Last Days of Roger Federer, Out of Sheer Rage, Yoga for People Who Can’t Be Bothered to Do It, Zona,See/Saw, and the essay collection Otherwise Known as the Human Condition (winner of a National Book Critics Circle Award for criticism). A fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and a member of the American Ac...
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July 3, 2025 • 99 mins
Volume 49 of Brad & Mira For the Culture...Mira accidentally names her PTSD "Darrell"...a complete recap of the Bezos-Sanchez wedding in Venice, Italy...the proud tastelessness...the spectacular tackiness...Leo tries desperately to hide...Brad's Fashion Corner..and more...
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July 1, 2025 • 81 mins
Lynn Steger Strong is the author of the novel The Float Test, available from Mariner Books.
Lynn's other novels include Flight, Want, and Hold Still. Her nonfiction has appeared in The New York Times, Time, Harper’s Bazaar, Los Angeles Times, The Paris Review, The Cut, New York Magazine, and elsewhere. She teaches writing at Princeton and Columbia University.
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June 29, 2025 • 76 mins
Character Study, Vol. 16. '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. 16, a conversation with Kirsten, 40, a pen and ink artist from Pittsburgh, PA.
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June 26, 2025 • 92 mins
Volume 48 of Brad & Mira For the Culture...fast zombies with erect penises...Jeff and Lauren take Venice...foam parties, Gatsby parties, the ritual humiliation of elites...Emma Thompson's prostate crusade...Scarlet Johansson can't stop mouth-kissing her gay co-star...and more...
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June 24, 2025 • 78 mins
Jess Walter is the author of the novel So Far Gone, available from Harper Books. It is the official June pick of the Otherppl Book Club.
Walter is the author of seven previous novels, including the bestsellers The Cold Millions and Beautiful Ruins, the National Book Award Finalist The Zero, and Citizen Vince,winner of the Edgar Award for best novel. His short fiction, collected in The Angel of Romeand We Live in Water, has won th...
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June 22, 2025 • 99 mins
Character Study, Vol. 15. '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. 15, a conversation with Rebecca, 35, a human being from Richmond, Virginia.
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June 19, 2025 • 89 mins
Volume 47 of Brad & Mira For the Culture.
In this sleep-deprived yet fully charged episode, Brad and Mira dive into a chaotic mix of meditation-induced existential crises, protest politics, the cultural significance of Sabrina Carpenter’s new album art, and the strange allure of Scrotox. They discuss the absurdity of performative wokeness, the hypocrisies of pop culture outrage, and why no one actually cares about what scrotums lo...
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June 17, 2025 • 80 mins
S. A. Cosby is the author of the novel King of Ashes, available from Flatiron Books.
Cosby is a New York Times bestselling writer from southeastern Virginia. He is the author of All the Sinners Bleed, which was on more than forty Best of the Year lists, including Barack Obama’s, as well as Edgar Award finalist Razorblade Tears and Los Angeles Times Book Prize winner Blacktop Wasteland. He has also won the Anthony Award, ITW Thril...
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June 15, 2025 • 91 mins
Character Study, Vol. 14. '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. 14, a conversation with David, 44, a graduate student from London.
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June 12, 2025 • 92 mins
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...
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June 10, 2025 • 90 mins
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 graduat...
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June 8, 2025 • 84 mins
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.
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June 5, 2025 • 90 mins
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...
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June 3, 2025 • 76 mins
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.
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June 1, 2025 • 86 mins
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.
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