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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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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.

    Alexandra Kleeman on Los Angeles, Filmmaking, Boredom, Adaptation, Todd Haynes, Writing, Idealism, Cynicism, Hamlet, Climate Change, and Public Breakdowns

    Alexandra Kleeman on Los Angeles, Filmmaking, Boredom, Adaptation, Todd Haynes, Writing, Idealism, Cynicism, Hamlet, Climate Change, and Public Breakdowns

    In today's flashback, an outtake from Episode 732, my conversation with author Alexandra Kleeman. The episode first aired on October 13, 2021.
    Kleeman is the author of the novel Something New Under the Sun (Hogarth Press). Her other books include the story collection Intimations and the debutnovel You Too Can Have a Body Like Mine, which was a New York Times Editor's Choice. Her fiction has been published in The New Yorker, The Paris Review, Zoetrope, Conjunctions, and Guernica, among other publications, and her other writing has appeared in Harper's, The New York Times Magazine, Vogue, Tin House, n+1, and The Guardian. Her work has received fellowships and support from Bread Loaf, the Djerassi Resident Artists Program, the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and the Headlands Center for the Arts. She is the winner of the Berlin Prize and the Bard Fiction Prize, and was a Rome Prize Literature Fellow at the American Academy in Rome. She lives in Staten Island and teaches at the New School.
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    • 28 min
    The Power of Names in Writing and Real Life

    The Power of Names in Writing and Real Life

    A new 'Craftwork' episode, about the power of names in writing and real life. My guest is Ethel Rohan, author of the novel Sing, I, available from Triquarterly Books.
    Rohan is an award-winning essayist, novelist, and short story writer whose work has appeared in the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Irish Times, PEN America, and Tin House. Her previous books include The Weight of Him and In the Event of Contact.
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    Otherppl with Brad Listi is a weekly literary podcast featuring in-depth interviews with today's leading writers.
    Available where podcasts are available: Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube, etc.
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    Merch
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    Bluesky
    Email the show: letters [at] otherppl [dot] com
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    • 1 hr 15 min
    915. Alejandro Zambra and Megan McDowell

    915. Alejandro Zambra and Megan McDowell

    Alejandro Zambra is the author of the story collection My Documents, available from Penguin Books. Official April pick of the Otherppl Book Club.
    Megan McDowell is the book's translator.
    Zambra is the author of ten books, most recently Chilean Poet and Multiple Choice. The recipient of numerous literary prizes, as well as a New York Public Library Cullman Center fellowship, he has published fiction and essays in The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, The Paris Review, and Harper's Magazine, among other publications. He lives in Mexico City.
    McDowell  is the winner of the 2022 National Book Award for Translation and the recipient of a 2020 Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, among other awards. She has been nominated four times for the International Booker Prize.
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    Otherppl with Brad Listi is a weekly literary 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 Patreon
    Merch
    Twitter
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    Bluesky
    Email the show: letters [at] otherppl [dot] com
    The podcast is a proud affiliate partner of Bookshop, working to support local, independent bookstores.

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    • 1 hr 24 min
    Bud Smith on Jersey, Childhood, Cop Cars, Libraries, Heavy Construction, Suburbs, Bands, Vonnegut, Rage, Seinfeld, Boredom, Blogs, and Universality

    Bud Smith on Jersey, Childhood, Cop Cars, Libraries, Heavy Construction, Suburbs, Bands, Vonnegut, Rage, Seinfeld, Boredom, Blogs, and Universality

    In today's flashback, an outtake from Episode 373, my conversation with author Bud Smith. The episode first aired on July 29, 2015.
    Bud Smith works heavy construction and lives in Jersey City, NJ. He is the author of Teenager (Vintage), Double Bird (Maudlin House, 2018), Dust Bunny City (Disorder Press, 2017), among others. His fiction has been published in The Paris Review, The Believer, The Baffler, and The Nervous Breakdown, and many others (collected below). He is also a creative writing teacher and editor.
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    Otherppl with Brad Listi is a weekly literary 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 Patreon
    Merch
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    Email the show: letters [at] otherppl [dot] com
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    • 26 min
    How to Structure a Novel

    How to Structure a Novel

    A new 'Craftwork' episode, about how to structure a novel. My guest is Mark Cecil, author of the debut novel Bunyan and Henry, available from Pantheon Books.
    Cecil is the host of The Thoughtful Bro podcast, for which he conducts interviews with an eclectic roster of award-winning and breakout storytellers. Formerly a journalist for Reuters, he is Head of Strategy for literary social media startup A Mighty Blaze and has taught writing at Grub Street in Boston. This is his first book.
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    Otherppl with Brad Listi is a weekly literary 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 Patreon
    Merch
    Twitter
    Instagram 
    TikTok
    Bluesky
    Email the show: letters [at] otherppl [dot] com
    The podcast is a proud affiliate partner of Bookshop, working to support local, independent bookstores.
    Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

    • 1 hr 37 min
    914. Annell López

    914. Annell López

    Annell López is the author of the debut story collection I'll Give You a Reason, available from The Feminist Press. Winner of the Louise Meriwether First Book Prize.
    López is a Dominican immigrant. A 2022 Peter Taylor fellow, her work has received support from Tin House and the Kenyon Review Workshops and has appeared in American Short Fiction, Michigan Quarterly Review, Brooklyn Rail, and elsewhere. López is an Assistant Fiction Editor for New Orleans Review and just finished her MFA at the University of New Orleans. She is working on a novel.
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    Otherppl with Brad Listi is a weekly literary 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 Patreon
    Merch
    Twitter
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    TikTok
    Bluesky
    Email the show: letters [at] otherppl [dot] com
    The podcast is a proud affiliate partner of Bookshop, working to support local, independent bookstores.

    Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

    • 1 hr 15 min

Customer Reviews

4.8 out of 5
466 Ratings

466 Ratings

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Always comforting. Always impactful.

Very grateful for all Brad does in this space. Cheers!

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Always insightful

Brad Listi’s podcast is one of my favorites. Through it I’ve met many new writers and have learned much more about the craft. Listening is always a worthy investment of my time.

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THE podcast for readers

I can’t thank Brad Listi enough for the care and thoughtfulness that goes into this incredible show. It’s a joy to hear his conversations each week. Other ppl 4ever!

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