Otherppl with Brad Listi: Books & Culture

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Megan Boyle on Tao Lin, Marriage, Media Coverage, Blogging, Me Fatigue, Isolation, Hippie Siblings, Moving, Shyness, and Alien Abductors Feb 02, 2024

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In today's flashback, an outtake from Episode 13, my conversation with author Megan Boyle. It first aired on October 30, 2011.

Boyle (b. 1985) lives in Baltimore. She is the author of the novel Live Blog (Tyrant Books) and the poetry collection selected unpublished blog posts of a mexican panda express employee (muumuu house). her work has been published by Vice,Thought Catalog, 3: AM, Pop Serial, and other venues.

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895. Christina Cooke Jan 31, 2024

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Christina Cooke is the author of the debut novel Broughtupsy, available from Catapult.

Cooke's writing has previously appeared in The Caribbean Writer, Prairie Schooner, PRISM international, Epiphany: A Literary Journal, and elsewhere. A MacDowell Fellow, Journey Prize winner, and Glenna Luschei Prairie Schooner Award winner, she holds a Master of Arts degree from the University of New Brunswick and a Master of Fine Arts degree from the Iowa Writers' Workshop. Born in Jamaica, Christina is now a Canadian citizen who lives and writes in New York City.

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894. Annie Liontas Jan 28, 2024

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Annie Liontas is the author of the memoir-in-essays Sex with a Brain Injury, available from Scribner.

Liontas is also the author of the novel Let Me Explain You, and they co-edited the anthology A Manner of Being: Writers on their Mentors. Their work has appeared in The New York Times Book Review, Gay Magazine, NPR, Electric Literature, BOMB, Lithub, The Believer, Guernica, McSweeney’s, The Rumpus, and elsewhere. A graduate of Syracuse University’s MFA program, they are a professor of writing at George Washington University.

Liontas has served as a mentor for Pen City’s incarcerated writers and helped secure a Mellon Foundation grant on Disability Justice to bring storytelling to communities in the criminal justice system.

They co-host the literary podcastLitFriends and live in Philadelphia with their wife, dog, and Email the rabbit.

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Lidia Yuknavitch on Artistic Responsibility, Life and Death Moments, The Savior Complex, Understanding Others, Ideology, Direct Action, Rage, and Change Jan 26, 2024

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In today's flashback, an outtake from Episode 370, my conversation with author Lidia Yuknavitch. It first aired on July 15, 2015.

Yuknavitch is the bestselling author of the novels Thrust, The Book of Joan, The Small Backs of Children, and Dora: A Headcase, the story collection Verge, and the memoir The Chronology of Water. She is the recipient of two Oregon Book Awards and has been a finalist for the Brooklyn Public Library Literary Prize and the PEN Center USA Creative Nonfiction Award. She lives in Portland, Oregon.

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893. Venita Blackburn Jan 24, 2024

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Venita Blackburn is the author of the debut novel Dead in Long Beach, CA, available from MCD Books.

Blackburn's other books include the story collection Black Jesus and Other Superheroes, which won the Prairie Schooner Book Prize and was a finalist for the New York Public Library Young Lions Fiction Award and the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize for Debut Fiction; and another collection called How to Wrestle a Girl, which was a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Fiction and the Ernest J. Gaines Award for Literary Excellence. Her stories have appeared in The New Yorker online, The Paris Review, Pleiades, Bat City Review, and American Short Fiction. She is a faculty member in the creative writing program at Fresno State University and is the founder and president of Live, Write, an organization devoted to offering free creative writing workshops for communities of color. She lives in Fresno, California.

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892. Ishmael Reed Jan 21, 2024

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Ishmael Reed is the author of the play The Slave Who Loved Caviar, now available in print from Archway Editions.

Ishmael Reed is the author of over twenty-five books including Mumbo Jumbo, Yellow Back Radio Broke-Down, Conjugating Hindi, Why No Confederate Statues in Mexico and most recently Malcolm and Me and Why the Black Hole Sings the Blues. He is also a publisher, television producer, songwriter, radio and television commentator, lecturer, and has long been devoted to exploring an alternative black aesthetic: the trickster tradition, or Neo-Hoodooism. A regular contributor to CounterPunch and founder of the Before Columbus Foundation, he taught at the University of California, Berkeley for over thirty years, retiring in 2005. Reed is the only person to be nominated for the National Book Award in two categories in the same year.

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Atticus Lish on Book Reviews, Expectations, Isolation, Chinese, New York, Family, Drawing, Phillips Exeter, and Don DeLillo Jan 19, 2024

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In today's flashback, an outtake from Episode 331, my conversation with Atticus Lish. It first aired on November 19, 2014.

Lish is the author of the novel The War for Gloria, published in 2022 by Vintage, and the debut novel Preparation for the Next Life, which won the 2015 Pen/Faulkner Award for Fiction and the 2016 Grand Prix de Littérature Américaine.

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891. Marie-Helene Bertino Jan 17, 2024

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Marie-Helene Bertino is the author of the novel Beautyland, available from Farrar, Straus, & Giroux.

Bertino's other books include the novels Parakeet and 2 A.M. at The Cat's Pajamas, and the story collection Safe as Houses. She was the 2017 Frank O'Connor International Short Story Fellow in Cork, Ireland. She has received the O. Henry Prize, the Pushcart Prize, the Iowa Short Fiction Award, the Mississippi Review Prize, and fellowships from MacDowell, Sewanee, and New York City's Center for Fiction, and her work has twice been featured on NPR's Selected Shorts. She teaches creative writing at New York University and Yale University and lives in Brooklyn.

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890. De'Shawn Charles Winslow Jan 14, 2024

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De'Shawn Charles Winslow is the author of the novel Decent People, now available in trade paperback from Bloomsbury.

Winslow's debut novel, In West Mills, won the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize winner, an American Book Award, and a Willie Morris Award for Southern Fiction, and was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book, Lambda Literary, and Publishing Triangle awards. He was born and raised in Elizabeth City, North Carolina, and graduated from the Iowa Writers' Workshop.

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Jean Kyoung Frazier on New York City, Bartending, Crushtomers, Not Caring, Dead Flies, First Lines, Reconnecting, and Ambivalence About Ambition Jan 12, 2024

Show notes

In today's flashback, an outtake from Episode 659, my conversation with Jean Kyoung Frazier. This episode first aired on July 22, 2020.

Jean's debut novel, Pizza Girl, is available in trade paperback from Anchor Books. She lives in Los Angeles.

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