Otherppl with Brad Listi: Books & Culture

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524. Michelle Dean May 30, 2018

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Michelle Dean is the author of SHARP: THE WOMEN WHO MADE AN ART OF HAVING AN OPINION (Grove Press). Dean is a journalist, critic, and the recipient of the National Book Critics Circle’s 2016 Nona Balakian Citation for Excellence in Reviewing. A contributing editor at the New Republic, she has written for the New Yorker, Nation, New York Times Magazine, Slate, New York Magazine, Elle, Harper’s, and BuzzFeed. She lives in Los Angeles.

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523. Adrian Todd Zuniga May 27, 2018

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Adrian Todd Zuniga is the author of the debut novel COLLISION THEORY (Rare Bird Books). Zuniga the host/creator/CCO of Literary Death Match (now featured in over 60 cities worldwide) and host of LDM Book Report on YouTube. A WGA Award-nominated screenwriter, he co-wrote Madden NFL 18’s interactive movie Longshot (EA Sports). His short fiction has been featured in Gopher Illustrated and Stymie, and online at Lost Magazine and McSweeney’s. He lives between London and Los Angeles.

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522. Sloane Crosley May 23, 2018

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Sloane Crosley is the author of the essay collection LOOK ALIVE OUT THERE (MCD Books). Crosley's other books include the bestselling essay collections "I Was Told There’d Be Cake," a finalist for The Thurber Prize, "How Did You Get This Number," and the novel "The Clasp." Her work has appeared in Esquire, Elle, GQ, Vogue, The New York Times Book Review, The Guardian, NY Magazine, McSweeney's, The Believer, Vice and on NPR. She lives in Manhattan.

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521. Tao Lin May 20, 2018

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Brad Listi talks with Tao Lin, author of TRIP: PSYCHEDELICS, ALIENATION, AND CHANGE (Vintage). Lin's other books include Taipei (2013), Richard Yates (2010), Shoplifting from American Apparel (2009), cognitive-behavioral therapy (2008), Eeeee Eee Eeee (2007), Bed (2007), & you are a little bit happier than i am (2006). He is also the author of Selected Tweets (2015) with Mira Gonzalez. He is the founder and editor of Muumuu House and lives in New York City (but is probably moving to Hawaii).

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520. Jonathan Ames May 16, 2018

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Jonathan Ames is the author of the novel YOU WERE NEVER REALLY HERE (Pushkin Press), now a major motion picture starring Joaquin Phoenix. Ames' other books include the novels I Pass Like Night, The Extra Man, Wake Up, Sir!, and the essay collections My Less Than Secret Life, I Love You More Than You Know, and The Double Life is Twice As Good. Ames is also the creator of two television shows: Bored to Death (HBO, 2009-2011) and Blunt Talk (STARZ, 2015-2016). He lives in Los Angeles.

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519. Melissa Broder May 09, 2018

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Melissa Broder is the author of the debut novel THE PISCES, available now from Hogarth Press. Broder is the author of four poetry collections, including LAST SEXT (Tin House, 2016), and the essay collection SO SAD TODAY (Grand Central, 2016). She writes the @sosadtoday Twitter feed, the So Sad Today column for VICE, the horoscopes for Lenny Letter, and the Beauty and Death column at Elle.com. She lives with her husband and her dog Pickle in Los Angeles.

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518. Susan Henderson May 06, 2018

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Susan Henderson is the author of the novel THE FLICKER OF OLD DREAMS (Harper Perennial). Henderson is a five-time Pushcart Prize nominee and the recipient of an Academy of American Poets award. Her debut novel, UP FROM THE BLUE, was published in 2010, and shorter work has been published in a number of anthologies, magazines, and newspapers. She lives in New York and blogs at the writer support group, LitPark.com.

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517. Lauren Grodstein May 02, 2018

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Lauren Grodstein is the author of the novel OUR SHORT HISTORY, available from Algonquin Books. Grodstein is the author of four other novels, including the New York Times bestseller "A Friend of the Family" and the Washington Post Book of the Year "The Explanation for Everything." She directs the MFA Program at Rutgers University-Camden and lives in New Jersey with her husband, children, and dog.

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516. Sarah Kendzior Apr 25, 2018

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Sarah Kendzior is the author of the essay collection THE VIEW FROM FLYOVER COUNTRY: DISPATCHES FROM THE FORGOTTEN AMERICA (Flatiron Books). A frequent contributor to Fast Company, NBC News, and other national outlets, she has been covering the transformation of the US under the Trump administration, writing on authoritarian tactics, kleptocracy, racism and xenophobia, media, voting rights, and the Russian interference case, among other topics. She lives in St. Louis.

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515. Natalia Sylvester Apr 25, 2018

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Natalia Sylvester is the author of the novel EVERYONE KNOWS YOU GO HOME (Little A Books). Sylvester was born in Lima, Peru and came to the U.S. at age four. She was raised in Florida and Texas. Her debut novel CHASING THE SUN was named the Best Debut Book of 2014 by Latinidad and was chosen as a Book of the Month by the National Latino Book Club. A former magazine editor, she now works as a freelance writer in Texas and is a faculty member of the low-res MFA program at Regis University.

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