Otherppl with Brad Listi

Thad Ziolkowski is the author of the debut novel, Wichita (Tonga Books). Also by Thad Ziolkowski: On a Wave: A Memoir Ziolkowski is the author of Our Son the Arson, a collection of poems, and a memoir, On a Wave, which was a finalist for the PEN/Martha Albrand Award in 2003. In 2008, he was awarded a fellowship from the John S. Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. His essays and reviews have appeared in The New York Times, Slate, Bookforum, Artforum, Travel & Leisure and Index. He directs the Writing Program at Pratt Institute. Wichita is his first novel.***Otherppl with Brad Listi is a weekly literary podcast featuring in-depth interviews with today's leading writers.Launched in 2011. Books. Literature. Writing. Publishing. Authors. Screenwriters. Life. Death. Etc.Support the show on Patreon / get Merchwww.otherppl.com@otherpplInstagram Email the show: letters [at] otherppl [dot] comGet Otherppl t-shirts, sweatshirts, etc.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

Leigh Stein is the author of the novel THE FALLBACK PLAN and the poetry collection DISPATCH FROM THE FUTURE (Melville House). Support independent bookstores! Buy your copies here.Also by Leigh Stein: SELF CARE: A NOVEL LAND OF ENCHANTMENT: A MEMOIRWHAT TO MISS WHEN: POEMS ***Otherppl with Brad Listi is a weekly literary podcast featuring in-depth interviews with today's leading writers.Launched in 2011. Books. Literature. Writing. Publishing. Authors. Screenwriters. Life. Death. Etc.Support the show on Patreon / get merch. www.otherppl.com@otherpplInstagramEmail the show: letters [at] otherppl [dot] comThe podcast is a proud affiliate partner of Bookshop, working to support local, independent bookstores. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

David Abrams is the guest.  He's the author of the debut novel Fobbit, which is now available from Grove/Atlantic. Publishers Weekly, in a starred reviews, says Abrams’s debut is a harrowing satire of the Iraq War and an instant classic....Abrams, ... Continue reading → Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Dana Johnson is the guest.  She's the author of the story collection Break Any Woman Down, winner of the Flannery O'Connor award for short fiction, and her debut novel, Elsewhere, California, is now available from Counterpoint. Aimee Bender raves I ... Continue reading → Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Alix Ohlin is the guest.  She's the author of several books, the most recent of which are the story collection Signs and Wonders, available now from Vintage, and a novel called Inside, available Knopf.  Both were published in June of ... Continue reading → Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Matthew Batt is the author of the memoir Sugarhouse (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt). Support independent bookstores! Buy your copy here.Batt's work has appeared in Tin House and on The Huffington Post and elsewhere. The Missouri Review called him a "heavy hitter" of nonfiction, and he's been nominated six times for the Pushcart Prize and is the recipient of an individual Artist Grant from the National Endowment for the Arts.***Otherppl with Brad Listi is a weekly literary podcast featuring in-depth interviews with today's leading writers.Launched in 2011. Books. Literature. Writing. Publishing. Authors. Screenwriters. Life. Death. Etc.Support the show on Patreon / get merchMerchwww.otherppl.com@otherpplInstagram Email the show: letters [at] otherppl [dot] comGet Otherppl t-shirts, sweatshirts, etc.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

George Saunders is today's guest.  He's the bestselling author of several books, including CivilWarLand in Bad Decline, Pastoralia, and The Braindead Megaphone, and his brand new story collection, Tenth of December, is due out from Random House in January 2013. ... Continue reading → Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Elizabeth Ellen is the author of the chapbook Before You She was a Pit Bull (Future Tense) and Fast Machine, a collection of her best work from the last decade. Support indie bookstores! Shop here.Ellen's stories, poems and essays have appeared in numerous online and print journals over the last 15 years, including elimae, Hobart, Fanzine, Bookslut, Muumuu House, BOMBBLOG, American Short Fiction, New York Tyrant, McSweeney’s, The Guardian, Joyland, Catapult, Bennington Review, FENCE, and Salon. In 2012 Ellen received a Pushcart Prize for her story, “Teen Culture,” originally published in American Short Fiction and included in her second story collection, Saul Stories (SF/LD, 2017). She is also the author of the story collection Fast Machine (a cult classic published in 2012), the novel Person/a, and the poetry collection Elizabeth Ellen. She is deputy editor at the literary journal Hobart, and, in 2006, Ellen founded Short Flight/Long Drive Books (SF/LD). Through SF/LD, she has published and edited such seminal works as Mary Miller's Big World, Chelsea Martin's Even Though I Don't Miss You, and Chloe Caldwell's Women, among many others. In 2014, Ellen authored a controversial essay for which she was removed from an anthology of ‘provocative women writers’ to be published by Black Lawrence Press. Upon Ellen's public removal from the anthology, several other prominent female writers pulled their names and contributions from the anthology in support of Ellen, including Roxane Gay, Cheryl Strayed, Laura van den Berg, Amelia Gray, Lindsay Hunter, xTx, Mary Miller and Jac Jemc. ***Otherppl with Brad Listi is a weekly literary podcast featuring in-depth interviews with today's leading writers.Launched in 2011. Books. Literature. Writing. Publishing. Authors. Screenwriters. Life. Death. Etc.Support the show on Patreon / get merch. www.otherppl.com@otherpplInstagramEmail the show: letters [at] otherppl [dot] comThe podcast is a proud affiliate partner of Bookshop, working to support local, independent bookstores. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Pauls Toutonghi is today's guest.  He's the author of two novels, the latest of which is called Evel Knievel Days, now available from Crown Books. Kirkus, in a starred review, calls it [A] superb literary effort....With writing both gently ironical ... Continue reading → Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Oksana Marafioti is today's guest.  She's the author of a new memoir called American Gypsy, now available from Farrar, Straus, & Giroux. Kirkus calls it Engaging . . . Marafioti describes with humor and introspection how the self-described ‘Split Nationality ... Continue reading → Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices