Volume 37 of Brad & Mira For the Culture...Alec in therapy...Hilaria in fishnets...Kanye copyrights his child's name...Kim gets medieval...Tracy Morgan projectile... more

Sarah Chihaya is the author of the memoir Bibliophobia, available from Random House. It is the official March 2025 pick... more

Character Study, Vol. 2. 'Character Studies' is a new series on the podcast featuring interviews with 'civilians'—ordinary adult humans of... more

Volume 36 of Brad & Mira For the Culture...the crushingly sad last days of Gene Hackman that are so depressing it... more

Lidia Yuknavitch is the author of a new memoir called Reading the Waves, available from Riverhead Books. Yuknavitch is the nationally bestselling... more

Character Study, Vol. 1. This is a new series on the podcast, featuring interviews with 'civilians'—ordinary adult humans of all... more

Volume 35 of Brad & Mira For the Culture...Mira moves...The Baldwins string us along...Oscars recap and Brad's Fashion Corner...what the hell... more

Curtis Sittenfeld is the author of the story collection Show Don't Tell, available from Random House. Sittenfeld’s New York Times bestselling books... more

Volume 34 of Brad & Mira For the Culture...recapping the debut of The Baldwins...Timmy-Tim wants to be great...corpse on a plane...the... more

Virginia Feito is the author of the novel Victorian Psycho, available from Liveright Publishing. It is the official February pick... more

A quick Sunday episode wherein I share some exciting news: Later this year, I will be launching a new company... more

Volume 33 of Brad & Mira For the Culture...SNL and Brad both turn 50 this year...Brad's Fashion Corner...Kevin Spacey lashes out...Taylor... more

Gabrielle Bates is the author of the poetry collection Judas Goat, available from Tin House. Bates's poetry has appeared in The New... more

Volume 32 of Brad & Mira For the Culture...listener mail...Armie Hammer out here eating organs...Lauren Boebert and Kid Rock in a... more

Mark Leyner is the author of A Shimmering, Serrated Monster!: The Mark Leyner Reader, now available from Back Bay Books.... more

Volume 31 of Brad & Mira For the Culture...a Grammys recap...Beyonce triumphs...Taylor Swift meets Bob Weir...best- and worst-dressed...Emilia Perez cast member... more

A new Craftwork episode featuring a conversation with John Kaag, a philosopher and author who is also now the co-founder... more

Volume 30 of Brad & Mira For the Culture...the Baldwins reality show...Bill Maher vs. Luigi stans...Brad & Mira go to the... more

Heather O'Neill is the author of the novel The Capital of Dreams, available from Harper Books. It is the official... more

Volume 29 of Brad & Mira For the Culture...remembering David Lynch...the Megan and Harry marriage and the Royals' propaganda war...what we're... more

Kevin Maloney is the author of the story collection Horse Girl Fever, available from Clash Books. Maloney's other books include the... more

Volume 28 of Brad & Mira For the Culture. What can we say? A tragic and apocalyptic week here in Los Angeles.... more

Zahid Rafiq is the author of the debut story collection The World with Its Mouth Open, available from Tin House.... more

Volume 27 of Brad & Mira For the Culture...Golden Globes recap...breastmilk controversies and lactating men...the shocking grandeur of Don Johnson's Wikipedia... more

A new Craftwork episode featuring a conversation with Joshua Mohr, author of a new trilogy of novels, the first of which... more

In the final episode of 2024, I share my favorite nonfiction of the year. Five titles by five very gifted... more

In what is now possibly an annual tradition, I share my favorite fiction of the year. Specifically, my 5 favorite... more

Volume 26 of Brad & Mira For the Culture...our holiday spectacular and the final episode of 2024. Thank you to everyone... more

Tony Tulathimutte is the author of the novel-in-stories Rejection (William Morrow & Co.). Tulathimutte is also the author of the... more

Volume 25 of Brad & Mira For the Culture...the end of the Eras Tour...the legend of Luigi...Jay-Z gets hit with a... more

Jeff VanderMeer is the author of the novel Absolution, available from MCD Books. It was the official November pick of... more

Volume 24 of Brad & Mira For the Culture...Thanksgiving recap...Kevin Spacey goes to Israel...the Nepo Baby Ball...Britney turns 5?...twinkish bears and... more

A new Craftwork episode featuring a conversation with Franklin Leonard, founder and CEO of The Black List, a company dedicated... more

Volume 23 of Brad & Mira For the Culture...the drama and indulgence of Thanksgiving...Mira's husband Tyler gets his first colonoscopy....an investigation... more

A new Craftwork episode about book publicity and best practices when it comes to managing a successful book launch. My... more

Sarah LaBrie is the author of the debut memoir No One Gets to Fall Apart, available from Harper Books. LaBrie is a... more

Volume 22 of Brad & Mira For the Culture...Mira's stiletto nails...Drew Barrymore gets handsy with Martha Stewart...John Mulaney pees in a... more

A new 'Craftwork' episode about how to write a poem. My guest is Matthew Zapruder, author of the poetry collection... more

A new 'Craftwork' episode about the art of world-building. My guest is Francesca Segal, author of the novel Welcome to... more

Sebastian Smee is the author of Paris in Ruins: Love, War, and the Birth of Impressionism, available from W.W. Norton... more

A special episode about Election 2024, featuring A.M. Homes, author of the novel The Unfolding. I spoke with A.M. Homes... more

Volume 21 of Brad & Mira For the Culture...listener mail...Trump's hate rally at MSG ...Gisele's love child, Tom's landslide....the return of... more

Sarah Gerard is the author of Carrie Carolyn Coco: My Friend, Her Murder, and an Obsession with the Unthinkable, available... more

Volume 20 of Brad & Mira For the Culture...Abercrombie Sex Events...Woody Allen at the Merkin sex app party....Swifties of the Caribbean...One... more

Mark Haddon is the author of the story collection Dogs and Monsters, available from Doubleday. It is the official October... more

Volume 19 of Brad & Mira For the Culture...Brad's insane, Alec Baldwin-esque voice memos about food....Trump's senior moment town hall DJ... more

Betsy Lerner is a longtime literary agent and the author of the debut novel Shred Sisters, available from Grove Press.... more

Volume 18 of Brad & Mira For the Culture...Mira jumps on the Mets bandwagon...Taylor's football social life...Leo wines and dines the... more

Emily Witt is a New Yorker staff writer and the author of the memoir Health and Safety: A Breakdown, available... more

Volume 17 of Brad & Mira For the Culture...Lizza leaks, Nuzzi lawyers up...the Diddy storm gathers...Britney almost burns her face off...Brad... more

A new 'Craftwork' episode about the art of literary collage. My guest is David Shields, author of How We Got Here:... more

Volume 16 of Brad & Mira For the Culture...RFK Jr and Olivia Nuzzi's sexting scandal...Bennifer in mediation...Jeff Bezos's top secret campfire... more

A new 'Craftwork' episode about the business of selling books. My guest is Kathleen Schmidt, publishing industry veteran, founder of... more

A new 'Craftwork' episode about the art of literary translation. My guests are Julia Sanches and Heather Cleary, co-translators of... more

Volume 15 of Brad & Mira For the Culture...Taylor Swift endorses Kamala (Bras was right)...the downfall of Diddy...Dave Grohl's surprise love... more

Regina Porter is the author of the novel The Rich People Have Gone Away, available from Hogarth Books. Porter is an award-winning... more

Volume 14 of Brad & Mira For the Culture...the return of the Royals...deciphering the Damon/J-Lo heart-to-heart...Anna Wintour shushes famous people...Harvey Weinstein's... more

Elizabeth Strout is the author of the novel Tell Me Everything, available from Random House. Strout is the #1 New York Times bestselling author... more

Volume 13 of Brad & Mira For the Culture...Mira's heat stroke journey...the silly glory of Pitt and Clooney...Anna Wintour vs. Naomi... more

Kerry Howley is the author of Bottoms Up and the Devil Laughs, now available in trade paperback from Vintage. Howley is... more

Volume 12 of Brad & Mira For the Culture...the great Beyonce hoax...RFK Jr., a chainsaw, and a whale...Taylor Swift and cults... more

Lena Valencia is the author of the debut story collection Mystery Lights, available from Tin House. It is the official... more

Volume 11 of Brad & Mira For the Culture...healthy garbage foods...artificial Trump endorsements...the Taylor Swift debate...cults of personality....Alicia Silverstone's street berry... more

Keziah Weir is the author of the debut novel The Mythmakers, available in trade paperback from Marysue Rucci Books. Weir is a senior... more

Francine Prose is the author of the memoir 1974: A Personal History, available from Harper. Prose is the author of twenty-two... more

Volume 10 of Brad & Mira For the Culture...listener mail...sad about David Lynch...Tom Cruise's stuntman death wish....Vanna White vs. Ryan Seacrest...RFK... more

Kevin Barry is the author of the novel The Heart in Winter, available from Doubleday. Barry is the author of... more

Volume 9 of Brad & Mira For the Culture...developments in the Timberlake DWI narrative...analyzing the subtext of a Mormon trad wife's... more

Elisa Gabbert is the author of the essay collection Any Person is the Only Self, available from FSG Originals. Gabbert is... more

Volume 8 of Brad & Mira For the Culture...Mira recounts her battle with Covid...celebrities weigh in on Biden's exit from the... more

Nina Sharma is the author of the debut memoir-in-essays The Way You Make Me Feel: Love in Black and Brown,... more

Juliet Escoria is the author of the story collection You Are the Snake, available from Soft Skull Press. Escoria is the... more

Aleksandr Skorobogatov is the author of Russian Gothic, available from Rare Bird. Translated by Ilona Yazhbin Chavasse. Skorobogatov was born... more

A new 'Craftwork' episode—all about the practice of fasting and its many implications. My guest is John Oakes, author of... more

In this week's monologue, I talk about the presidential election and how I've been finding it unusually difficult to talk... more

Porochista Khakpour is the author of the novel Tehrangeles, available from Pantheon. Khakpour was born in Tehran and raised in... more

Volume 7 of Brad & Mira For the Culture...the fall of the house of Jennifer...Swifties v Julia...Andy Cohen's Oprah regrets...the Hawk... more

Volume 6 of Brad & Mira For the Culture...deep fakes...edibles in Las Vegas...Liam Gallagher's neighbors...Kourtney Kardashian inducing labor...the rise of Hawk... more

A new 'Craftwork' episode about writing deeply personal narratives. My guest is Rachel Krantz, author of the debut memoir Open:... more

Volume 5 of Brad & Mira For the Culture...juice cleansing....RIP Donald Sutherland...J-Lo's Photogenic Ass....Bill Belichick's Geriatric Gen Z Romance...J-Law's New... more

In today's flashback, an outtake from Episode 774, my conversation with Kathryn Miles. It first aired on May 25, 2022. ... more

The fourth episode of 'Brad & Mira For the Culture'...O'Reilly Auto Parts...Ozempic...John Travolta at the gym...Justin Timberlake's DUI...and more... 'Brad &... more

Ayana Mathis is the author of the novel The Unsettled, now available in trade paperback from Vintage. Mathis's first novel, The Twelve... more

The third episode of 'Brad & Mira For the Culture,' in which we cover Grimace— McDonald's character, gay icon, and... more

Teddy Wayne is the author of the novel The Winner, available from Harper. Wayne is the winner of a 2011 Whiting... more

In today's flashback, an outtake from Episode 574, my conversation with Richard Chiem. It first aired on April 3, 2019. Chiem is the... more

Kimberly King Parsons is the author of the debut novel We Were the Universe, available from Knopf. The official June... more

The second episode of 'Brad & Mira For the Culture,' in which we cover a wide range of subject... more

Morgan Talty is the author of the debut novel Fire Exit, available from Tin House. Talty is a citizen of the... more

In today's flashback, an outtake from Episode 409, my conversation with author Tony Tulathimutte. It first aired on April 13,... more

Max Porter is the author of the novel Shy, available in trade paperback from Graywolf Press. Porter is the author of Lanny, which... more

Another new experimental content offering! This one is called 'Brad & Mira For the Culture,' and for the next few... more

Rita Bullwinkel is the author of the debut novel Headshot, available from Viking. Bullwinkel is the author of Belly Up,... more

In today's flashback, an outtake from Episode 381, my conversation with author and literary agent Bill Clegg. It first aired... more

R.O. Kwon is the author of the novel Exhibit, available from Riverhead Books. Kwon is the author of the nationally... more

Colombe Schneck is the author of Swimming in Paris: A Life in Three Stories, available from Penguin Press. Translated by... more

In today's flashback, an outtake from Episode 545, my conversation with author and poet Mark Leidner. It first aired on October... more

Hari Kunzru is the author of the novel Blue Ruin, available from Knopf. Kunzru is the author of six other... more

Myriam Lacroix is the author of the debut novel How It Works Out, available from The Overlook Press. It is... more

In today's flashback, an outtake from Episode 708, my conversation with author and comedian Sam Tallent. It first aired on... more

Carvell Wallace is the author of the debut memoir Another Word for Love, available from MCD Books. Wallace grew up between Southwestern... more

A new 'Craftwork' episode entitled 'The Life of a Bookseller.' My guest is Paul Yamazaki, principal book buyer for City Lights... more

In today's flashback, an outtake from Episode 626, my conversation with author Garth Greenwell. The episode first aired on February... more

Hanif Abdurraqib is the bestselling author of the memoir There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension, available from Random... more

Helen Tworkov is the author of the debut memoir Lotus Girl, available from St. Martin's Essentials. Tworkov is founding editor of Tricycle:... more

In today's flashback, an outtake from Episode 732, my conversation with author Alexandra Kleeman. The episode first aired on October... more

A new 'Craftwork' episode, about the power of names in writing and real life. My guest is Ethel Rohan, author... more

Alejandro Zambra is the author of the story collection My Documents, available from Penguin Books. Official April pick of the... more

In today's flashback, an outtake from Episode 373, my conversation with author Bud Smith. The episode first aired on July... more

A new 'Craftwork' episode, about how to structure a novel. My guest is Mark Cecil, author of the debut novel... more

Annell López is the author of the debut story collection I'll Give You a Reason, available from The Feminist Press.... more

In today's flashback, an outtake from Episode 377, my conversation with author Karolina Waclawiak. The episode first aired on August 26,... more

A new 'Craftwork' episode, about how to build a rewarding creative life. My guest is Ben Tanzer, author of the... more

José Vadi is the author of a memoir-in-essays called Chipped: Writing from a Skateboarder's Lens, available from Soft Skull Press. Vadi... more

In today's flashback, an outtake from Episode 455, my conversation with author Min Jin Lee. The episode first aired on... more

A new 'Craftwork' episode, about how to write good stories. My guest is Steve Almond, author of a new book... more

Lydia Millet is the author of We Loved It All: A Memory of Life, available from W.W. Norton & Co. Millet is... more

In today's flashback, an outtake from Episode 559, my conversation with poet, artist, and television writer Tommy Pico. The episode... more

A new 'Craftwork' episode, about how to get (somewhat) better at art. My guest is Nicholson Baker, author of Finding... more

Alexandra Tanner is the author of the debut novel Worry, available from Scribner. Tanner is a Brooklyn-based writer and editor.... more

In today's flashback, an outtake from Episode 762, my conversation with author John Keene about his poetry collection Punks, which... more

Catherine Lacey is the author of the novel Biography of X, available in trade paperback from Picador. Lacey is the author of... more

Rowan Beaird is the author of the debut novel The Divorcées, available from Flatiron Books. Beaird is a writer whose work has... more

In today's flashback, an outtake from Episode 666, my conversation with author Stephen Graham Jones. It first aired on August... more

Téa Obreht is the author of the novel The Morningside, available from Random House. Obreht is the internationally bestselling author of The Tiger's... more

Adelle Waldman is the author of the novel Help Wanted, available from W.W. Norton & Co. Waldman is the best-selling... more

In today's flashback, an outtake from Episode 521, my conversation with author Tao Lin. It first aired on May 20, 2018. Lin is... more

Katya Apekina is the author of the novel Mother Doll, available from The Overlook Press. Apekina is a novelist, screenwriter, and translator.... more

Tana French is the author of the novel The Hunter, available from Viking Books. It is the official March pick... more

In today's flashback, an outtake from Episode 679, my conversation with author Sebastian Castillo. It first aired on November 4,... more

Tommy Orange is the author of the novel Wandering Stars, available from Knopf. Orange is a graduate of the MFA program... more

A new 'Craftwork' episode, about how to write flash fiction. My guest is author and editor Tommy Dean. Dean is the... more

In today's flashback, an outtake from Episode 613, my conversation with author Leland Cheuk. It first aired on November 20, 2019. Cheuk is... more

Sloane Crosley is the author of the memoir Grief Is for People, available from MCD Books. Crosley is the author of the novels Cult Classic and The... more

Lauren Markham is the author of A Map of Future Ruins, available from Riverhead Books. Markham is the author of the award-winning The... more

In today's flashback, an outtake from Episode 29, my conversation with author Ben Loory. It first aired on December 25,... more

Vanessa Chan is the author of the bestselling debut novel The Storm We Made, available from Marysue Rucci Books. It... more

Leslie Jamison is the author of the memoir Splinters, available from Little, Brown & Co. Jamison is the author of... more

In today's flashback, an outtake from Episode 264, my conversation with author Jacinda Townsend. It first aired on March 30,... more

Sarah Tomlinson is the author of the novel The Last Days of the Midnight Ramblers, available from Flatiron Books. Tomlinson, a former... more

Paul Theroux is the author of the novel Burma Sahib, available from Mariner Books. Theroux is the author of many... more

In today's flashback, an outtake from Episode 531, my conversation with author Bethany C. Morrow. It first aired on July 4, 2018. Morrow is... more

Margot Livesey is the author of the novel The Road from Belhaven, available from Knopf. Livesey was born and... more

Brandi Wells is the author of the debut novel The Cleaner, available from Hanover Square Press. Wells' other books include... more

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

Christina Cooke is the author of the debut novel Broughtupsy, available from Catapult. Cooke's writing has previously appeared in The Caribbean Writer, Prairie... more

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

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

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

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

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

Marie-Helene Bertino is the author of the novel Beautyland, available from Farrar, Straus, & Giroux. Bertino's other books include the... more

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

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

A new 'Craftwork' episode. A conversation with Kathleen Schmidt, an expert on the book business and the author of a... more

Julie Myerson is the author of the novel Nonfiction, available from Tin House. It is the official January pick of... more

In today's flashback, an outtake from Episode 507, my conversation with author Azareen Van Der Vliet Oloomi. This episode first aired on... more

Susannah Breslin is the author of the memoir Data Baby: My Life in a Psychological Experiment, available from Legacy Lit.... more

In this, the final episode of 2023, I'm sharing my ten favorite books of the year. Incredibly difficult to choose—and... more

The third in a series of episodes, looking back on 2023 and breaking down the most popular conversations of the... more

The second in a series of episodes, looking back on 2023 and breaking down the most popular conversations of the... more

The first in a series of episodes, looking back on 2023 and breaking down the most popular conversations of the... more

In today's flashback, an outtake from Episode 400, my conversation with author Alexander Chee. This episode first aired on February 16,... more

Lauren Elkin is the author of Art Monsters: Unruly Bodies in Feminist Art, available from Farrar, Straus, & Giroux. Elkin's essays... more

A new 'Craftwork' episode, about how meditation can inform creative writing. My guest is Melissa Broder, author of the novel... more

In today's flashback, an outtake from Episode 308, my conversation with poet Michael Earl Craig. This episode first aired on August... more

E.J. Koh is the author of the debut novel The Liberators, available from Tin House. It is the official December... more

Rumaan Alam is the bestselling author of the novel Leave the World Behind, available in trade paperback from Ecco Books.... more

In today's flashback, an outtake from Episode 423, my conversation with bestselling author Chuck Klosterman. This episode first aired on July... more

Blake Butler is the author of the memoir Molly, available from Archway Editions. Butler is the author of five books of... more

Wendy Chin-Tanner is the author of the debut novel King of the Armadillos, available from Flatiron Books. Chin-Tanner is the author of... more

In today's flashback, an outtake from Episode 99, my conversation with author and publisher Elizabeth Ellen. This episode first aired on August... more

A new 'Craftwork' episode, all about the art of book publicity. My guest is longtime literary publicist Lauren Cerand. Lauren... more

A new 'Craftwork' episode, all about ghostwriting. My guest is Stuart Horwitz, founder and principal of Book Architecture. Horwitz has spent over... more

In today's flashback, an outtake from Episode 647, my conversation with author Susan Choi. She won the National Book Award in... more

Lindsay Hunter is the author of the novel Hot Springs Drive, available from Roxane Gay Books.   Hunter received her MFA in... more

Lexi Freiman is the author of the novel The Book of Ayn, available from Catapult. Freiman is an Australian writer and... more

In today's flashback, an outtake from Episode 520, my conversation with author Jonathan Ames. Ames is the author of several books, including... more

Michael Cunningham is a Pulitzer Prize winner and the author of the novel Day, available from Random House.  Cunningham is a novelist,... more

Jami Nakamura Lin is the author of the memoir The Night Parade, available from Mariner Books. It is the official... more

In today's flashback, an outtake from Episode 627, my conversation with author and poet Megan Fernandes. Her books include The Kingdom and... more

Thurston Moore is a founding member of the band Sonic Youth and the author of a new memoir entitled Sonic... more

Justin Torres is the author of the novel Blackouts, a finalist for the 2023 National Book Award for Fiction. Available... more

In today's flashback, an outtake from Episode 436, my conversation with Wendy C. Ortiz. Her books include Excavation: A Memoir,... more

A conversation with Dan Sinykin, author of Big Fiction: How Conglomeration Changed the Publishing Industry and American Literature, available from... more

Athena Dixon is the author of the memoir-in-essays entitled The Loneliness Files, available from Tin House. Dixon's other books include the... more

In today's flashback, an outtake from Episode 564, my conversation with author and visual artist Brad Phillips. His debut story... more

A conversation with Lee McIntyre, author of On Disinformation: How to Fight for Truth and Protect Democracy, available from MIT... more

Eliza Clark is the author of the novel Penance, available from Harper Books. It is the official October pick of... more

In today's flashback, an outtake from Episode 244, my conversation with Pulitzer Prize winner Hilton Als. This episode first aired... more

Elle Nash is the author of the novel Deliver Me, available from The Unnamed Press. Nash is the author of the novels... more

Claudia Dey is the author of the novel Daughter, available from Farrar, Straus, and Giroux. Dey's previous novel, Heartbreaker, was a Northern... more

In today's flashback, an outtake from Episode 268, my conversation with Douglas Coupland. This episode first aired on April 13, 2014. Since... more

Roxane Gay is the author of the essay collection Opinions: A Decade of Arguments, Criticism, and Minding Other People's Business,... more

David L. Ulin is the author of the novel Thirteen Question Method, available from Outpost 19. Ulin is the author or... more

In today's flashback, an outtake from Episode 327, my conversation with Frederick Barthelme. This episode first aired on November 5,... more

James Frankie Thomas is the author of the debut novel Idlewild, available from The Overlook Press. It was the official... more

C Pam Zhang is the author of the novel Land of Milk and Honey, available from Riverhead Books. Zhang's other book is the... more

In today's flashback, an outtake from Episode 117, my conversation with Susan Straight, author of the novel Mecca (FSG). This episode... more

Vauhini Vara is the author of the story collection This is Salvaged, available from W.W. Norton & Co. Vara has been a... more

Mona Awad is the bestselling author of the novel Rouge, available from Marysue Rucci Books, an imprint of Simon & Schuster. Awad's other... more

In today's flashback, an outtake from Episode 257, my conversation with Natalie Baszile, author of the novel Queen Sugar (Penguin... more

Anne Enright is the author of the novel The Wren, The Wren, available from W.W. Norton & Co. Enright is author of... more

Karl Ove Knausgaard is the author of the novel The Wolves of Eternity, available from Penguin Press. Translated by Martin... more

In today's flashback, an outtake from Episode 147, my conversation with Joyce Johnson, author of the biography The Voice is... more

A new 'Craftwork' episode, all about anti-heroes. My guest is Tod Goldberg, author of the novel Gangsters Don't Die, available... more

Lauren Groff is the bestselling author of the novel The Vaster Wilds, available from Riverhead Books. Groff is a three-time National Book... more

In today's flashback, an outtake from Episode 374, my conversation with Matt Sumell, author of the novel-in-stories Making Nice (Picador).... more

Yiyun Li is the author of the story collection Wednesday's Child, available from Farrar, Straus, and Giroux. Li is the author of... more

Myriam Gurba is the author of the essay collection Creep: Accusations and Confessions, available from Avid Reader Press. Gurba is a... more

In today's flashback, an outtake from Episode 546, my conversation with Laura van den Berg, author of five works of... more

Maggie Downs is an award-winning journalist, travel writer, and the author of the memoir Braver Than You Think:Around the World on the... more

Rebekah Bergman is the author of the debut novel The Museum of Human History, available from Tin House. It is... more

Today, a special episode remembering the life and work of Tom Hansen, who died this week of esophageal cancer. Hansen was... more

In today's flashback, an outtake from Episode 24, my conversation with biographer Charles Shields, author of And So It Goes—... more

Maya Binyam is the author of the debut novel Hangman, available from Farrar, Straus, and Giroux. Binyam is a fiction writer and... more

In today's 'Craftwork' episode, a conversation with Emily Rapp Black about "truth" in creative nonfiction. Emily is the author of... more

In today's flashback, an outtake from Episode 364, my conversation with Mat Johnson, author of the novel Invisible Things and... more

Brando Skyhorse is the author of the novel My Name is Iris, available from Avid Reader Press. Skyhorse's debut novel, The Madonnas... more

In today's 'Craftwork' episode, a conversation with Kathleen Schmidt. She is a longtime publishing industry veteran with in-depth experience in a... more

In today's flashback, an outtake from Episode 460, my conversation with Melissa Febos, author of Body Work, Girlhood, and other... more

Lydia Kiesling is the author of the novel Mobility, available from Crooked Media Reads. Kiesling is the author of The Golden State,... more

Khashayar J. Khabushani is the author of the debut novel I Will Greet the Sun Again, available from Hogarth Books. Khabushani was... more

In today's flashback, an outtake from Episode 684, my conversation with Michael Schumacher, author of Dharma Lion: A Biography of Allen... more

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

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... more

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

Geoff Rickly is the author of the debut novel Someone Who Isn't Me, available from Rose Books. It is the... more

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

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

Jenny Xie is the author of the debut novel Holding Pattern, available from Riverhead Books. Xie is a writer and editor living... more

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

In today's flashback, an outtake from Episode 107, my conversation with D.T. Max, New Yorker staff writer and author of... more

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

Sarah Rose Etter is the author of the novel Ripe, available from Scribner. Etter's other books include The Book of... more

In today's flashback, an outtake from Episode 506, my conversation with Elif Batuman. Elif Batuman's first novel, The Idiot, was a... more

Patrick deWitt is the author of the novel The Librarianist, available from Ecco. His other books include the novels French Exit, a... more

Chelsea Hodson is the author of the essay collection Tonight I'm Someone Else, which came out in 2018. She is the... more

In today's flashback, an outtake from Episode 401, my conversation with Hanya Yanagihara from February 2016. Hanya Yanagihara is a prize-winning... more

Tess Gunty is the author of the debut novel The Rabbit Hutch, now available in trade paperback from Vintage. It... more

Lorrie Moore is the bestselling author of the novel I Am Homeless if This Is Not My Home, available from... more

In today's flashback, an outtake from Episode 616, my conversation with Tim O'Brien from December 2019. O'Brien received the 1979 National... more

Leila Slimani is the author of the novel Watch Us Dance, available from Viking. Translated by Sam Taylor. Slimani is the... more

Alejandra Oliva is the author of Rivermouth: A Chronicle of Language, Faith, and Migration, available from Astra House. Oliva is an... more

Today on the program, a special Pulitzer Prize episode featuring authors Hernan Diaz and Ingrid Rojas Contreras. Diaz won... more

Molly Lynch is the author of the debut novel The Forbidden Territory of a Terrifying Woman, available from Catapult. Lynch grew up... more

Tania James is the author of the novel Loot, available from Knopf. James is the author of the novels The Tusk... more

In today's flashback, an outtake from Episode 549, my conversation with Andre Dubus III from October 2018. Dubus is the author of several books, including Dirty Love, The... more

Jasmin 'Iolani Hakes is the author of the debut novel Hula, available from HarperVia. Hakes was born and raised in... more

Jim Ruland is the author of the novel Make It Stop, available from Rare Bird Books. Ruland is the co-author of Do What... more

In today's flashback, an outtake from Episode 448, my conversation with Roxane Gay from January 2017. Roxane Gay is the bestselling author of the... more

Bea Setton is the author of the debut novel Berlin, available from Penguin Books. Setton was born in Paris to Franco-British... more

Declan Meade is the guest. He is the founding editor and publisher of The Stinging Fly, one of the world’s... more

In today's flashback, an outtake from Episode 426, my conversation with Jonathan Franzen from August 2016. He is the author of... more

In the latest "Craftwork" episode, a deep-dive conversation about the horror genre with author and story expert John Truby. His... more

Ivy Pochoda is the author of the novel Sing Her Down, available from MCD Books. Pochoda's other books include the acclaimed... more

Today I'm launching a new feature on the Otherppl podcast: flashback episodes from the Otherppl archives. These flashbacks will be short-form,... more

Anne Elizabeth Moore is the author of the essay collection Body Horror: Capitalism, Fear, Misogyny, Jokes, available from The Feminist... more

Samantha Irby is the bestselling author of the essay collection Quietly Hostile, available from Vintage. Irby's other books include Meaty, Wow,... more

Isabella Hammad is the author of the novel Enter Ghost, available from Grove Press. Hammad was born in London. Her writing... more

Dave Eggers is the author of the all-ages novel The Eyes and the Impossible, available in a deluxe, limited edition,... more

In the latest "Craftwork" episode, a deep-dive conversation about the bestseller lists with Carly Watters, herself a longtime literary agent and... more

Hannah Pittard is the author of the memoir We Are Too Many, available from Henry Holt & Co. Pittard is the author... more

Emily St. John Mandel is the bestselling author of the novel Sea of Tranquility, now available in trade paperback from... more

Claire Dederer is the author of Monsters: A Fan's Dilemma, available from Knopf. Dederer is the author of Love and Trouble, and... more

Matthew Zapruder is the author of the memoir Story of a Poem, available from Unnamed Press. Zapruder is the author of five... more

J. Ryan Stradal is the bestselling author of the novel Saturday Night at the Lakeside Supper Club, available from Viking... more

Jinwoo Chong is the author of the debut novel Flux, available from Melville House. It is the official April pick... more

Tara Conklin is the author of the novel Community Board. It was the official March pick of the book club. Conklin... more

Tiffany Clarke Harrison is the author of the debut novel Blue Hour, available from Soft Skull Press. Harrison graduated from Salisbury... more

In the latest "Craftwork" episode, a deep-dive conversation about literary agents with Carly Watters, herself a longtime literary agent and... more

Clancy Martin is the author of How Not to Kill Yourself: A Portrait of the Suicidal Mind, available from Pantheon. Martin... more

Alex Mar is the author of Seventy Times Seven: A True Story of Murder and Mercy, available from Penguin Press. Mar is... more

Shannon McLeod is the author of the Nature Trail Stories, available from Thirty West Publishing. McLeod is the author of the... more

Madelaine Lucas is the author of the debut novel Thirst for Salt, available from Tin House. Lucas is a senior editor... more

Gina Frangello is the guest in the latest 'Craftwork' episode. We talk about the editorial omniscient point of view—what it... more

Jennifer Michael Hecht is the author of The Wonder Paradox: Embracing the Weirdness of Existence and the Poetry of Our... more

Camonghne Felix is the author of the memoir Dyscalculia: A Love Story of Epic Miscalculation, available from One World Press. Felix,... more

Tracey Rose Peyton is the author of the debut novel Night Wherever We Go, available from Ecco Books. Peyton received her MFA... more

V. V. Ganeshananthan is the author of the novel Brotherless Night, available from Random House. Ganeshananthan is the author of Love Marriage, which was... more