Otherppl with Brad Listi: Books & Culture

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856. Jamel Brinkley Aug 02, 2023

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Jamel Brinkley is the author of the story collection Witness, available from Farrar, Straus, & Giroux.

Brinkley is the author of A Lucky Man: Stories, which won the Ernest J. Gaines Award for Literary Excellence and was a finalist for the National Book Award, the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize for Debut Fiction, the Story Prize, the John Leonard Prize, and the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award. He has also been awarded an O. Henry Prize, the Rome Prize, a Wallace Stegner Fellowship, and a Lannan Foundation Fellowship. His work has appeared in The Paris Review, A Public Space, Ploughshares, and The Best American Short Stories. He was raised in the Bronx and in Brooklyn, New York, and currently teaches at the Iowa Writers' Workshop.

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855. Edan Lepucki Jul 30, 2023

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Edan Lepucki is the bestselling author of the novel Time's Mouth, available from Counterpoint Press.

Lepucki's other books include the novels California and Woman No. 17. She is also the editor of Mothers Before: Stories and Portraits of Our Mothers as We Never Saw Them. Her nonfiction has been published in The New York Times Magazine, the Los Angeles Times, Esquire Magazine, and The Cut, among other publications. She lives in Los Angeles with her family.

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Viet Thanh Nguyen on History, War Movies, Race, Refugees, Vietnam, and the Need for Political Literature Jul 28, 2023

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In today's flashback, an outtake from Episode 419, my conversation with Pulitzer Prize-winner Viet Thanh Nguyen, author of the bestselling novel The Sympathizer.

His other books are Nothing Ever Dies: Vietnam and the Memory of War (a finalist for the National Book Award in nonfiction and the National Book Critics Circle Award in General Nonfiction) and Race and Resistance: Literature and Politics in Asian America. He is a University Professor, the Aerol Arnold Chair of English, and a Professor of English, American Studies and Ethnicity, and Comparative Literature at the University of Southern California.

Viet’s next book is A Man of Two Faces: A Memoir, A History, A Memorial, forthcoming in October 2023 from Grove Press.

Air date: June 22, 2016.

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854. Geoff Rickly Jul 26, 2023

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Geoff Rickly is the author of the debut novel Someone Who Isn't Me, available from Rose Books. It is the official July pick of the Otherppl Book Club.

Rickly is the lead singer and songwriter of Thursday and No Devotion. He lives in Brooklyn, New York, and this is his first book.

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853. Ruth Madievsky Jul 23, 2023

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Ruth Madievsky is the author of the debut novel All-Night Pharmacy, available from Catapult.

Madievsky is the author of a bestselling poetry collection, Emergency Brake (Tavern Books, 2016). Her work appears in Harper's Bazaar, Guernica, Literary Hub, Kenyon Review, Ploughshares, and elsewhere. She is a founding member of the Cheburashka Collective, a community of women and nonbinary writers from the former Soviet Union. Originally from Moldova, she lives in Los Angeles, where she works as an HIV and primary care pharmacist.

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Carmen Maria Machado on Anxiety, Death, Childhood, Sick Lit, Writing Letters, and Religion Jul 21, 2023

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In today's flashback, an outtake from Episode 491, my conversation with Carmen Maria Machado, author of the bestselling memoir In the Dream House.

Machado's other books include the graphic novel The Low, Low Woods, and an award-winning short story collection called Her Body and Other Parties.

She has been a finalist for the National Book Award and the winner of the Bard Fiction Prize, the Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Fiction, the Lambda Literary Award for LGBTQ Nonfiction, the Brooklyn Public Library Literature Prize, the Shirley Jackson Award, and the National Book Critics Circle's John Leonard Prize.

Air date: November 8, 2017.

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852. Jenny Xie Jul 19, 2023

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Jenny Xie is the author of the debut novel Holding Pattern, available from Riverhead Books.

Xie is a writer and editor living in Brooklyn. Originally from Shanghai, she graduated from the University of California, Berkeley, and earned her MFA at Johns Hopkins University. Her work has appeared in AGNI, Ninth Letter, Joyland, Narrative, and the Best of the Net Anthology. Jenny is the recipient of a Bread Loaf scholarship and fellowships from MacDowell, Yaddo, the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and Loghaven. She is a contributing writer for Architectural Digest, Apartment Therapy, and Dwell, where she was the executive editor.

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851. Andrew Lipstein Jul 16, 2023

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Andrew Lipstein is the author of the novel The Vegan, available from Farrar, Straus, and Giroux.

Lipstein is also the author of Last Resort (FSG, 2022), a novel "you'll think about . . . for weeks after you read the last pages" (Los Angeles Times). He lives in Brooklyn.

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D.T. Max on David Foster Wallace, Different Kinds of Intelligence, Bret Easton Ellis, Irony vs. Sincerity, and 12-Step Philosophy Jul 14, 2023

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In today's flashback, an outtake from Episode 107, my conversation with D.T. Max, New Yorker staff writer and author of Every Love Story is a Ghost Story: A Life of David Foster Wallace, which was published by Viking in 2012.

Max's other books include The Family That Couldn’t Sleep: A Medical Mystery and Finale: Late Conversations with Stephen Sondheim.

Air date: September 22, 2012

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850. Nicole Flattery Jul 12, 2023

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Nicole Flattery is the author of the novel Nothing Special, available from Bloomsbury.

Flattery is also the author of the story collection Show Them A Good Time. She is the winner of A Post Irish Book Award, the Kate O'Brien Prize, the London Magazine Prize for Debut Fiction, and the White Review Short Story Prize. Her work has appeared in theStinging Fly, the Guardian, the White Review, and the London Review of Books. A graduate of the master's program in creative writing at Trinity College, she lives in Dublin, Ireland.

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Otherppl with Brad Listi is a weekly literary podcast featuring in-depth interviews with today's leading writers.

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