Sign up to save your podcasts
Or
Share Otherppl with Brad Listi: Books & Culture
Share to email
Share to Facebook
Share to X
Share to email
Share to Facebook
Share to X
Or
Otherppl with Brad Listi: Books & Culture
By Brad Listi
Otherppl is a books and culture podcast hosted by novelist Brad Listi. Featuring candid, in-depth conversations with acclaimed and emerging authors, the show explores literature, writing, publishing, ... more
4.8
527527 ratings
FAQs about Otherppl with Brad Listi: Books & Culture:
How many episodes does Otherppl with Brad Listi: Books & Culture have?
The podcast currently has 1,380 episodes available.
Best of Otherppl with Brad Listi: Books & Culture
The most played episodes among Podcast App listeners.
- Number 1: Thanks for Not Talking
Volume 104 of Brad & Mira For the Culture...Mira weighs in on the death of Gloria Steinem...Florida weather in LA...Mira professes her love for M. Night Shyamalan...is Brad obsessed with Phish?....Mira telephones three different McDonald's restaurants...Brad prepares for the 15th anniversary of his podcasting career...gets huge on Instagram by not talking...Increasingly-Angry Craig from East Tennessee makes his podcast debut..Angry Adam returns...the terrifying trailer for the new Elizabeth Holmes documentary... Trump claims he was in the rubble on 9/11...the curious case of the man who was duct-taped to an airplane seat, mid-flight...death and mayhem at Burning Man...Miley drops the 'Cyrus'...& more... *** Otherppl with Brad Listi is a weekly podcast featuring in-depth interviews with today's leading writers. Available where podcasts are available: Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube, etc. Get How to Write a Novel, the debut audio course from DeepDive. 50+ hours of never-before-heard insight, inspiration, and instruction from dozens of today's most celebrated contemporary authors. Subscribe to Brad's email newsletter. Support the show on Patreon Merch Instagram TikTok Bluesky Email the show: letters [at] otherppl [dot] com The podcast is a proud affiliate partner of Bookshop, working to support local, independent bookstores. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
1h 9min
- Number 2: Excerpt from 'All That Is Left of Life,' by Roberta Recchia
Vol. 17 of Story Time, featuring an author reading aloud from her work. In this episode, Roberta Recchia reads from her bestselling debut novel All That Is Left of Life (Scribner). Born in Rome in 1972, Roberta Rossella Recchia lived for a time in Lille, France, where she earned a master’s degree in international relations and cultures. She worked for ten years for a big company and then quit office work to devote herself to teaching. She currently teaches English in a high school in Rome. She is passionate about film and literature, especially Russian and French. She lives with her chihuahua, Claudio, in a small town on the coast of Lazio, Italy. *** Otherppl with Brad Listi is a weekly podcast featuring in-depth interviews with today's leading writers. Available where podcasts are available: Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube, etc. Get How to Write a Novel, the debut audio course from DeepDive. 50+ hours of never-before-heard insight, inspiration, and instruction from dozens of today's most celebrated contemporary authors. Subscribe to Brad's email newsletter. Support the show on Patreon Merch Instagram TikTok Bluesky Email the show: letters [at] otherppl [dot] com The podcast is a proud affiliate partner of Bookshop, working to support local, independent bookstores. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
19min - Number 3: 1052. Marlon James
Marlon James is the author of the novel The Disappearers, now available from Riverhead Books. It has been longlisted for the 2026 Booker Prize. James is the Booker Prize-winning and New York Times bestselling author of A Brief History of Seven Killings; the bestselling and National Book Award finalist Black Leopard, Red Wolf; as well as the bestselling Moon Witch, Spider King; The Book of Night Women; and John Crow’s Devil. In addition to the Booker Prize, James’s novels have won the American Book Award, the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award, the Dayton Literary Peace Prize, the OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature, and the Los Angeles Times Ray Bradbury Prize for Science Fiction, and have been finalists for the National Book Critics Circle Award and the NAACP Image Award. The recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and named in 2019 one of Time magazine’s one hundred most influential people in the world, James lives in New York City. *** Otherppl with Brad Listi is a weekly podcast featuring in-depth interviews with today's leading writers. Available where podcasts are available: Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube, etc. Get How to Write a Novel, the debut audio course from DeepDive. 50+ hours of never-before-heard insight, inspiration, and instruction from dozens of today's most celebrated contemporary authors. Subscribe to Brad's email newsletter. Support the show on Patreon Merch Instagram TikTok Bluesky Email the show: letters [at] otherppl [dot] com The podcast is a proud affiliate partner of Bookshop, working to support local, independent bookstores. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
57min - Number 4: Dolly Parton 4Ever
Volume 102 of Brad & Mira For the Culture...Dolly Parton, our Lord & Savior, has shuffled off her mortal coil...Mira laments not being able to cancel the podcast for mental health reasons...Mira ridicules Brad for not marketing his podcast until year 15...Brad's Instagram following explodes...Angry Adam is furious again...does James Blunt have micro-penis?...Harry & Meghan heading back to the UK...Clavicular's security detail brawls with college kids in Ft. Lauderdale...Sydney Sweeney is the next Tom Cruise...the Iranian government puts a bounty on Barron...& more... *** Otherppl with Brad Listi is a weekly podcast featuring in-depth interviews with today's leading writers. Available where podcasts are available: Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube, etc. Get How to Write a Novel, the debut audio course from DeepDive. 50+ hours of never-before-heard insight, inspiration, and instruction from dozens of today's most celebrated contemporary authors. Subscribe to Brad's email newsletter. Support the show on Patreon Merch Instagram TikTok Bluesky Email the show: letters [at] otherppl [dot] com The podcast is a proud affiliate partner of Bookshop, working to support local, independent bookstores. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
1h 22min - Number 5: Carmen Maria Machado on Early Success, Haunted Residencies, and the Joy of Video Games
Today on the program, a trip into the archive and a return to Episode 491, my conversation with Carmen Maria Machado, author of the award-winning debut story collection Her Body and Other Parties. Air date: November 8, 2017. Carmen is also the author of the bestselling memoir In the Dream House and the graphic novel The Low, Low Woods. 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. In 2018, the New York Times listed Her Body and Other Parties as a member of "The New Vanguard," one of "15 remarkable books by women that are shaping the way we read and write fiction in the 21st century." Her essays, fiction, poetry, and criticism have appeared in the New Yorker, the New York Times, Granta, Vogue, This American Life, Harper’s Bazaar, Tin House, McSweeney's Quarterly Concern, The Believer, Guernica, Best American Science Fiction & Fantasy, Best American Nonrequired Reading, and elsewhere. She holds an MFA from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and has been awarded fellowships and residencies from the Guggenheim Foundation, The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage, Yaddo, Hedgebrook, and the Millay Colony for the Arts. She is the former Abrams Artist-in-Residence at the University of Pennsylvania. *** Otherppl with Brad Listi is a weekly podcast featuring in-depth interviews with today's leading writers. Available where podcasts are available: Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube, etc. Get How to Write a Novel, the debut audio course from DeepDive. 50+ hours of never-before-heard insight, inspiration, and instruction from dozens of today's most celebrated contemporary authors. Subscribe to Brad's email newsletter. Support the show on Patreon Merch Instagram TikTok Bluesky Email the show: letters [at] otherppl [dot] com The podcast is a proud affiliate partner of Bookshop, working to support local, independent bookstores. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
1h 21min
Otherppl with Brad Listi: Books & Culture episodes:
June 18, 2026The Golden Sacrifice June 16, 20261040. Ben Fountain June 14, 2026REPLAY: Lili Anolik on Eve Babitz and the Secret History of LA June 11, 2026Brad vs. The Volcano June 09, 20261039. Anne Enright June 07, 2026REPLAY: Rex Pickett on 'Sideways,' Hollywood, and Adventures in Wine Country June 06, 20261038. Tracy Lynne Oliver June 04, 2026Nobody Puts Mira in a Corner June 02, 20261037. Luke Goebel May 31, 2026REPLAY: Timothy Willis Sanders on Anxiety, Stalin, and Male Vulnerability
FAQs about Otherppl with Brad Listi: Books & Culture:
How many episodes does Otherppl with Brad Listi: Books & Culture have?
The podcast currently has 1,380 episodes available.
More shows like Otherppl with Brad Listi: Books & Culture
Fresh Air
38,168 Listeners
The New Yorker Radio Hour
6,835 Listeners
Pop Culture Happy Hour
11,567 Listeners
The New Yorker: Fiction
3,341 Listeners
The Book Review
3,969 Listeners
The New Yorker: Poetry
519 Listeners
Between The Covers : Conversations with Writers in Fiction, Nonfiction & Poetry
477 Listeners
The New Yorker: The Writer's Voice - New Fiction from The New Yorker
2,122 Listeners
London Review Bookshop Podcast
133 Listeners
Talk Easy with Sam Fragoso
1,510 Listeners
City Arts & Lectures
401 Listeners
The Shit No One Tells You About Writing
786 Listeners
Poured Over
319 Listeners
The Interview
1,639 Listeners
Critics at Large | The New Yorker
657 Listeners