Otherppl with Brad Listi

Chelsea Hodson is the author of the essay collection TONIGHT I'M SOMEONE ELSE (Henry Holt) and a chapbook called "Pity the Animal." She is a graduate of the MFA program at Bennington College and has been awarded fellowships from MacDowell Colony and PEN Center USA Emerging Voices. Her writing has appeared in The New York Times Magazine, Frieze Magazine, Black Warrior Review, The Lifted Brow, Fanzine, Hobart, and elsewhere. She teaches at Catapult in New York and at Mors Tua Vita Mea in Rome.***Otherppl with Brad Listi is a weekly literary podcast featuring in-depth interviews with today's leading writers.Available where podcasts are available: Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher, iHeart Radio, etc.Subscribe to Brad Listi’s email newsletterSupport the show on PatreonMerch@otherpplInstagram YouTubeTikTokEmail 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

A re-posting of this December 29, 2013 conversation between Brad Listi and Jennifer Michael Hecht, author STAY: A HISTORY OF SUICIDE AND THE ARGUMENTS AGAINST IT. Hecht is a poet, historian, and commentator. Her other books include the bestseller "Doubt: A History," "The Happiness Myth," and "The End of the Soul: Scientific Modernity, Atheism, and Anthropology." Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Aja Gabel is the author of the debut novel THE ENSEMBLE (Riverhead Books). Gabel's short fiction can be found in New England Review, New Ohio Review, Glimmer Train, BOMB, and elsewhere. She has taught fiction, non-fiction, and literature at the University of Virginia, the University of Houston, Sweet Briar College, and Pacific University, as well as at undergraduate creative writing conferences and community workshop organizations. She lives in Los Angeles with her dog, Bear. ***Otherppl with Brad Listi is a weekly literary podcast featuring in-depth interviews with today's leading writers.Available where podcasts are available: Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher, iHeart Radio, etc.Subscribe to Brad Listi’s email newsletterSupport the show on PatreonMerch@otherpplInstagram YouTubeTikTokEmail 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

Jonathan Evison is the bestselling author of the novel LAWN BOY (Algonquin Books). Evison is the author of four previous novels, including All About Lulu, West of Here, The Revised Fundamentals of Caregiving, and This Is Your Life, Harriet Chance! He lives with his wife and family in Washington state. ***Otherppl with Brad Listi is a weekly literary podcast featuring in-depth interviews with today's leading writers.Available where podcasts are available: Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher, iHeart Radio, etc.Subscribe to Brad Listi’s email newsletterSupport the show on PatreonMerch@otherpplInstagram YouTubeTikTokEmail 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

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.***Otherppl with Brad Listi is a weekly literary podcast featuring in-depth interviews with today's leading writers.Available where podcasts are available: Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher, iHeart Radio, etc.Subscribe to Brad Listi’s email newsletterSupport the show on PatreonMerch@otherpplInstagram YouTubeTikTokEmail 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

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. ***Otherppl with Brad Listi is a weekly literary podcast featuring in-depth interviews with today's leading writers.Available where podcasts are available: Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher, iHeart Radio, etc.Subscribe to Brad Listi’s email newsletterSupport the show on PatreonMerch@otherpplInstagram YouTubeTikTokEmail 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

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.*** Otherppl with Brad Listi is a weekly literary podcast featuring in-depth interviews with today's leading writers.Available where podcasts are available: Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher, iHeart Radio, etc.Subscribe to Brad Listi’s email newsletterSupport the show on PatreonMerch@otherpplInstagram YouTubeTikTokEmail 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

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).  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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.***Otherppl with Brad Listi is a weekly literary podcast featuring in-depth interviews with today's leading writers.Available where podcasts are available: Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher, iHeart Radio, etc.Subscribe to Brad Listi’s email newsletterSupport the show on PatreonMerch@otherpplInstagram YouTubeTikTokEmail 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

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.***Otherppl with Brad Listi is a weekly literary podcast featuring in-depth interviews with today's leading writers.Available where podcasts are available: Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher, iHeart Radio, etc.Subscribe to Brad Listi’s email newsletterSupport the show on PatreonMerch@otherpplInstagram YouTubeTikTokEmail 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