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Episode 100 — George Saunders
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 →
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Tagged as absurdist tendencies, Amarillo, Atlas Shrugged, authors, Ayn Rand, Brad Listi, Bruce Springsteen, Buddha Boy, capitalism, Catholicism, Chicago, CivilWarLand in Bad Decline, Colorado School of Mines, control, David Letterman, discipline, drinking, energy, engineering, Ernest Hemingway, fallow periods, George Saunders, GQ, graduate school, guilt, happiness, hitchhiking, hopefulness, In Persuasion Nation, interview, Jack Kerouac, Jane Austen, Jessica Alba, Kahlil Gibran, MacArthur Genius Grant, Marfa, Marxism, objectivism, Pastoralia, performance, podcasts, population density, publishing, realism, short stories, Singapore, slaughterhouses, spontaneity, sports, Steve Martin, struggle, Stuart Dybek, Sumatra, Susan Sontag, Syracuse, Tenth of December, Terry Eagleton, The Braindead Megaphone, The New Yorker, the physical world, Visions of Gerard, Winesburg Ohio, writing at work
Episode 60 — Kris Saknussemm
Kris Saknussemm is the guest. His latest novel, Reverend America, is now available from Dark Coast Press. And the soundtrack to the book is now available at iTunes. From Booklist: Once upon a time, Mathias Gaspenny was a child preacher … Continue reading →
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Tagged as 10th Mountain Division, 1960s, abuse, alcohol, Australia, author interview podcasts, author interviews, authors, badminton, Bank of America, Berkeley, Big Sur, biker chicks, Black Mountain Institute, books, Boston W. Smith, Brad Listi, counterculture, Dark Coast, Dartmouth, drugs, embalming fluid, Eric Wyatt, Esalen, evangelism, fiction, gambling, grand theft auto, hippies, hydration, Kris Saknussemm, Las Vegas, literature, manic breakdown, Melbourne, New England, new fiction, novels, Oberlin, Other People with Brad Listi, Papua New Guinea, podcasts, preachers, psych ward, psychotic breakdowns, publishing, Reverend America, Seattle, sports, tequila, The Flaming Lips, trauma, Vanuatu, violin
Episode 52 — Lysley Tenorio
Lysley Tenorio is the guest. A winner of the Whiting Writer’s Award and a former Stegner Fellow at Stanford University, he is the author of a debut story collection called Monstress, now available from Ecco. Raves Chang-Rae Lee, New York … Continue reading →
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Tagged as adversity, anger, author interview podcasts, author interviews, authors, Beverly Clearly, books, Brad Listi, college, comic books, diversity, dysfunction, ethnocentricity, fiction, goals, grading, hardship, immigrants, iPads, Jonathan Franzen, Lysley Tenorio, Monstress, new fiction, Other People with Brad Listi, paper, Philippines, Phillips Exeter, publishing, Ramona the Pest, Rush Limbaugh, San Diego, San Francisco, Shel Silverstein, short stories, speed, sports, Stanford, Tagalog, teaching, The Horror of the Blood Monsters, Twitter, Wallace Stegner fellow, Wisconsin, writers, writing
Episode 47 — Ryan Boudinot
Ryan Boudinot is the guest. He’s the author of the new novel, Blueprints of the Afterlife, now available from Grove Press. John Schwartz, in a review for the New York Times, raves: A fierce literary imagination, building the kinds of … Continue reading →
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Tagged as author interview podcasts, author interviews, authors, Bjork, Blueprints of the Afterlife, books, bookshelves, Brad Listi, Dancer in the Dark, Dave Cornelius, Dave Eggers, Easton's Books, Evergreen State College, farming, Ferris Bueller, goals, Grove Press, Halldor Laxness, Hobart, Iceland, library, literature, longhand, mall-walking, maturity, Misconception, Mississippi Review, Mt. Vernon, new fiction, novels, nudity, Other People with Brad Listi, P.J. Mark, podcasts, precociousness, publishing, reincarnation, Ryan Boudinot, San Francisco, Seattle, Seattle authors, short stories, Sigur Ros, Sjon, sports, The Littlest Hitler, typewriters, wallets, Washington, writers, writing
Episode 42 — Ben Tanzer
Ben Tanzer is the guest. He’s the author of several books, including 99 Problems, You Can Make Him Like You, and My Father’s House. He is also the proprietor of vast faux media empire. Michael Fitzgerald, author of Radiant Days, … Continue reading →
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Tagged as 99 Problems, alcohol, Allman Brothers, ambition, author interview podcasts, author interviews, authors, Ben Tanzer, Bob Barker, books, Brad Listi, Chicago, Chicago writers, dehydration, Dickey Betts, drugs, endorphins, fandom, hydration, indie lit, interviews, Jerry Garcia, lethargy, literature, maturity, Memphis, My Father's House, Obama, OCD, Other People with Brad Listi, podcasts, publishing, raves, reading, readings, running, screenwriting, sports, Stephen Gaghan, The Grateful Dead, water, writers, writing, You Can Make Him Like You
