Tag Archives: music

November 11, 2012

Episode 121 — Lisa Carver

Lisa Carver is the guest. Also known as Lisa Suckdog, she is a writer and performance artist whose latest book is called Reaching Out with No Hands: Reconsidering Yoko Ono, now available from Backbeat Books. Zoe Zolbrod, author of Currency, … Continue reading →

1 Comment

Filed under Podcasts

Tagged as abuse, authors, Backbeat Books, books, Brad Listi, interviews, Lisa Carver, music, performance art, podcasts, publishing, punk rock, Reaching Out with No Hands: Reconsidering Yoko Ono, Suckdog, writers, writing, Yoko Ono

August 14, 2012

A Mix-Tape of Songs Related to the Writing Life, Over at Electric Literature

To celebrate the impending 100-episode mark, I’ve put together a mix-tape of songs related to the writing life over at Electric Literature. (Big thanks to Elissa Goldstein & Julia Jackson!) An excerpt: 7.) SONG TO LISTEN TO SHORTLY BEFORE GIVING … Continue reading →

Episode 89 — Jess Walter

Jess Walter is the guest. He’s a National Book Award nominee and the author of several novels, the most recent of which is called Beautiful Ruins, now available from Harper. Helen Schulman, writing for the New York Times Book Review, … Continue reading →

2 Comments

Filed under Podcasts

Tagged as 9/11, Aleksandar Hemon, Anna Karenina, authors, Beautiful Ruins, Brad Listi, brand, Breakfast of Champions, Don DeLillo, Edgar Award, fear, Hollywood, interviews, Iraq War, Jess Walter, journalism, Kurt Vonnegut, Los Angeles, Louis Ferdinand Celine, Marilynne Robinson, McSweeney's, movies, music, National Book Award, Other People, podcasts, profanity, reading, romance, Ruby Ridge, screenwriting, shame, storytelling, Twitter, writers, writing

June 17, 2012

Episode 79 — Elizabeth Crane

Elizabeth Crane is the guest. She’s the author of three story collections—When the Messenger is Hot, All This Heavenly Glory, and You Must Be This Happy to Enter. Her debut novel, We Only Know So Much, is now available from … Continue reading →

Episode 66 — Kris D’Agostino

Kris D’Agostino is the guest. He’s the author of the debut novel The Sleepy Hollow Family Almanac (Algonquin), which was the March selection for the TNB Book Club. Raves Brock Clarke, author of Exley: A singularly funny, bitter, bold book … Continue reading →

2 Comments

Filed under Podcasts

Tagged as A Separation, Algonquin Books, anxiety, author interview podcasts, author interviews, authors, Boogie Nights, books, Boston, Brad Listi, BU, debut fiction, Dirk Diggler, Dungeons & Dragons, fantasy, film school, interviews, Italian, Kris D'Agostino, literature, music, Never Let Me Go, new fiction, New York, novels, Other People with Brad Listi, Paul Thomas Anderson, podcasts, publishing, science fiction, The Hunger Games, The Sleepy Hollow Family Almanac, therapys, Woody Allen, writers, writing

March 11, 2012

Episode 51 — Lauren Groff

Lauren Groff is the guest. She’s the author of the novel The Monsters of Templeton, the story collection Delicate Edible Birds, and most recently, a novel called Arcadia, which has received starred reviews from Library Journal, Publishers Weekly, Kirkus, and … Continue reading →

5 Comments

Filed under Podcasts

Tagged as Amherst, anxiety, Arcadia, author interview podcasts, author interviews, authors, Ayn Rand, books, Brad Listi, bugs, children, Cooperstown, David Foster Wallace, Delicate Edible Birds, empathy, ESPYs, faith, fiction, Florida, France, Gainesville, heat, idealism, Jeffrey Eugenides, John Updike, kneading, Lauren Groff, literature, lizards, Lorrie Moore, Marcel Proust, Meryl Streep, Moby Dick, Modigliani, music, new fiction, novelists, novels, Olympics 2012, Other People with Brad Listi, painting, perfectionism, podcasts, publication, publishing, Q Moonblood, racoons, Sarah Groff, short stories, sleep disorders, Stanford, Stephen King, Sylvester Stallone, The Monsters of Templeton, treadmills, utopia

January 25, 2012

Episode 38 — Vanessa Veselka

Vanessa Veselka is the guest. She’s the author of the novel Zazen, now available from Red Lemonade. Says Publishers Weekly: “Veselka’s prose is chiseled and laced with arsenic observations…[Zazen] makes a case for hope and meaning amid sheer madness.” Endless … Continue reading →

4 Comments

Filed under Podcasts

Tagged as Alaska, Amazon, Atlantic Monthly, author interview podcasts, author interviews, authors, bartending, Bell, boarding school, books, Brad Listi, Candlebox, Communism, Greenwich Village, guitar, hands, hitchhiking, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Linda Ellerbee, minimum wage, Murphy Brown, music, Myers-Briggs, New Orleans, New York City, Nitebrite, Other People with Brad Listi, podcasts, publishing, punk rock, Red Lemonade, Richard Nash, Seattle, songwriting, stripping, The Pinkos, unions, Vanessa Veselka, writers, writing, Zazen

Tag Archives: music

Episode 121 — Lisa Carver

A Mix-Tape of Songs Related to the Writing Life, Over at Electric Literature

Episode 89 — Jess Walter

Episode 79 — Elizabeth Crane

Episode 66 — Kris D’Agostino

Episode 51 — Lauren Groff

Episode 38 — Vanessa Veselka

Follow Other People on the Twitter

Press

Other People with Brad Listi

Archives