Otherppl with Brad Listi: Books & Culture

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750. Stacy D. Flood Dec 22, 2021

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Stacy D. Flood is the author of the novella The Salt Fields, available from Lanternfish Press.

Originally from Buffalo, and currently living in Seattle, Stacy’s work has been published and performed nationally as well as in the Puget Sound Area. Having received his MFA in Creative Writing from San Francisco State University, he has also been an artist-in-residence at DISQUIET in Lisbon, as well as The Millay Colony of the Arts. In addition, he is the recipient of the Gregory Capasso Award in Fiction from the University at Buffalo, along with a Getty Fellowship to the Squaw Valley Community of Writers.

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749. Megan Milks Dec 19, 2021

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Megan Milksis the author of the novel Margaret and the Mystery of the Missing Body(The Feminist Press).

Milks is the author of Kill Marguerite and Other Stories (2014), available from Feminist Press in revised and expanded form as Slug and Other Stories, and Remember the Internet: Tori Amos Bootleg Webring. With Marisa Crawford, they are coeditor of We Are the Baby-Sitters Club: Essays and Artwork from Grown-Up Readers; with KJ Cerankowski, they are coeditor of Asexualities: Feminist and Queer Perspectives. Born in Virginia, they currently live in Brooklyn.

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748. Robin McLean Dec 15, 2021

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Robin McLeanis the author of the debut novel Pity the Beast, available from And Other Stories.

McLean worked as lawyer and then a potter in the woods of Alaska before turning to writing. Her story collection Reptile House won the 2013 BOA Editions Fiction Prize and was twice a finalist for the Flannery O'Connor Short Story Prize. She now lives and teaches in the high plains desert of central Nevada at Ike's Canyon Ranch Writer's Retreat which she co-founded.

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747. Duncan Birmingham Dec 12, 2021

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Duncan Birminghamis the author of the debut story collection The Cult in My Garage, available from Maudlin House.

Birmingham is a writer and filmmaker in Los Angeles. His fiction has appeared in Mystery Tribune, Brooklyn vol 1, Juked, 7x7, Joyland, nerve, Word Riot, Opium, Story Chord, Oxford Review and Mr. Beller's Neighborhood, among other places.

He was a writer/executive producer on IFC's Maron (with Marc Maron) as well as a writer/producer on Starz's Blunt Talk (with Jonathan Ames) and David Fincher's never-aired HBO show, Videosyncrazy. Short films he has written and directed have premiered at Sundance, AFI, GenArt and Miami Film Festival.

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746. Roisin Kiberd Dec 08, 2021

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Roisin Kiberdis the author of The Disconnect: A Personal Journey Through the Internet, availablefrom Serpent's Tail.

Kiberd's essays have been published in the Dublin Review, the White Review, the Stinging Fly and Winter Papers. She has written features on technology and culture for publications including the Guardian, Vice and Motherboard, where she wrote a column about internet subcultures. Having spent some time in London as the online voice of a cheese brand, she now lives in Dublin.

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745. Janice Lee Dec 05, 2021

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Janice Lee is the author of the novel Imagine a Death, available from Texas Review Press.

Lee is a Korean-American writer, editor, publisher, and shamanic healer. Author of seven books of fiction, creative nonfiction and poetry, she is the founder & executive editor of Entropy, Co-Publisher at Civil Coping Mechanisms, Contributing Editor at Fanzine, and Co-Founder of The Accomplices LLC. She currently lives in Portland, OR where she is an Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at Portland State University.

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744. Jocelyn Nicole Johnson Dec 01, 2021

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Jocelyn Nicole Johnsonis the author of the debut story collection My Monticello, available from Henry Holt & Co.

Johnson's writing has appeared in Guernica, The Guardian, Phoebe, Prime Number Magazine, and elsewhere. Her short story "Control Negro" was anthologized in Best American Short Stories 2018, guest edited by Roxane Gay, and read live by LeVar Burton as part of PRI's Selected Shorts series. Johnson has been a fellow at Hedgebrook, Tin House Summer Workshops, and VCCA. A veteran public school art teacher, she lives and writes in Charlottesville, Virginia.

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743. Sarah Hall Nov 24, 2021

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Sarah Hallis the author of the novel Burntcoat, available from Custom House. It is the official November pick of The Nervous Breakdown Book Club.

Hall was born in Cumbria. She is the prizewinning author of six novels and three short story collections. She is a recipient of the American Academy of Arts and Letters E. M. Forster Award, the Edge Hill Short Story Prize, among others, and the only person ever to win the BBC National Short Story Award twice.

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742. Dennis Cooper Nov 21, 2021

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Dennis Cooper is the author of the novel I Wished, available from Soho Press.

Cooper is the author of the George Miles Cycle, an interconnected sequence of five novels: Closer, Frisk, Try, Guide, and Period. His other works include My Loose Thread; The Sluts, winner of France's Prix Sade and the Lambda Literary Award; God Jr.; Wrong; The Dream Police; Ugly Man; and The Marbled Swarm. He divides his time between Los Angeles and Paris. He is the director (with Zac Farley) of Permanent Green Light and Like Cattle Towards Glow.

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741. Larissa Pham Nov 17, 2021

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Larissa Pham is the author of the memoir-in-essays Pop Song, available from Catapult.

Pham is an artist and writer in Brooklyn. Born in Portland, Oregon, she studied painting and art history at Yale University. She has written essays and criticism for the Paris Review Daily, The Nation, Art in America, Guernica, and elsewhere. She was an inaugural Yi Dae Up fellowship recipient from the Jack Jones Literary Arts Retreat. She is also the author of Fantasian, a novella.

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Launched in 2011. Books. Literature. Writing. Publishing. Authors. Screenwriters. Etc.

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