Otherppl with Brad Listi: Books & Culture

Latest Episodes:

David, 44, Painter Jun 15, 2025

Show notes

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.

***

⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠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 Patreon⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

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

Cazando Esteban Jun 12, 2025

Show notes

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 Podcasts⁠⁠, ⁠⁠Spotify⁠⁠, ⁠⁠YouTube⁠⁠, etc.

Subscribe to ⁠⁠Brad Listi’s email newsletter⁠⁠.

⁠⁠Support the show on Patreon⁠⁠

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

971. Claire Hoffman Jun 10, 2025

Show notes

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 Chicago and an MA in journalism from Columbia University. She serves on the boards of the Columbia School of Journalism, ProPublica, and the Brooklyn Public Library.

***

⁠⁠⁠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 Patreon⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Merch⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Instagram⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Bluesky⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

Email the show: letters [at] otherppl [dot] com

The podcast is an ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠affiliate partner of Bookshop⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, working to support local, independent bookstores.

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

John, 36, Graduate Student Jun 08, 2025

Show notes

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 Podcasts⁠⁠⁠⁠, ⁠⁠⁠⁠Spotify⁠⁠⁠⁠, ⁠⁠⁠⁠YouTube⁠⁠⁠⁠, etc.

Subscribe to ⁠⁠⁠⁠Brad Listi’s email newsletter⁠⁠⁠⁠.

⁠⁠⁠⁠Support the show on Patreon⁠⁠⁠⁠

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

For Sale: Knicks Lingerie, Never Worn Jun 05, 2025

Show notes

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 available: ⁠Apple Podcasts⁠, ⁠Spotify⁠, ⁠YouTube⁠, etc.

Subscribe to ⁠Brad Listi’s email newsletter⁠.

⁠Support the show on Patreon⁠

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

970. Andrew Lipstein Jun 03, 2025

Show notes

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 newsletter⁠⁠⁠⁠.

⁠⁠⁠⁠Support the show on Patreon⁠⁠⁠⁠

⁠⁠⁠⁠Merch⁠⁠⁠⁠

⁠⁠⁠⁠Instagram⁠⁠⁠⁠

⁠⁠⁠⁠Bluesky⁠⁠⁠⁠

Email the show: letters [at] otherppl [dot] com

The podcast is an ⁠⁠⁠⁠affiliate partner of Bookshop⁠⁠⁠⁠, working to support local, independent bookstores.

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

Sam, 40, Filmmaker and Visual Strategist Jun 01, 2025

Show notes

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 Podcasts⁠⁠⁠, ⁠⁠⁠Spotify⁠⁠⁠, ⁠⁠⁠YouTube⁠⁠⁠, etc.

Subscribe to ⁠⁠⁠Brad Listi’s email newsletter⁠⁠⁠.

⁠⁠⁠Support the show on Patreon⁠⁠⁠

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

969. Vauhini Vara May 29, 2025

Show notes

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 Podcasts⁠⁠⁠, ⁠⁠⁠Spotify⁠⁠⁠, ⁠⁠⁠YouTube⁠⁠⁠, etc.

Subscribe to ⁠⁠⁠Brad Listi’s email newsletter⁠⁠⁠.

⁠⁠⁠Support the show on Patreon⁠⁠⁠

⁠⁠⁠Merch⁠⁠⁠

⁠⁠⁠Instagram⁠⁠⁠

⁠⁠⁠Bluesky⁠⁠⁠

Email the show: letters [at] otherppl [dot] com

The podcast is an ⁠⁠⁠affiliate partner of Bookshop⁠⁠⁠, working to support local, independent bookstores.

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

968. Kate Folk May 27, 2025

Show notes

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 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

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

967. J. Robert Lennon May 25, 2025

Show notes

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 Literature, and elsewhere. He has been anthologized in Best American Short Stories, Best American Nonrequired Reading, and Prize Stories: The O. Henry Awards. His book reviews have appeared in The New York Times Book Review, The Guardian, and The London Review of Books, and he lives in Ithaca, New York, where he teaches writing at Cornell University.

***

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 Patreon⁠⁠

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