Podcast Episodes

1002. Jonathan Lethem

Jonathan Lethem is the author of A Different Kind of Tension: New and Selected Stories, available from Ecco. It was the official October 2025 pick of…

6 months, 2 weeks ago

1001. Donika Kelly

Donika Kelly is the author of the poetry collection The Natural Order of Things, available from Graywolf Press.

Kelly is also the author of Bestiary…

6 months, 3 weeks ago

Space Mountain Death Trip

Volume 66 of Brad & Mira For the Culture...Brad airs his 1000th author interview...Mira shares her favorite Otherppl memories...Mira hasn't slept in …

6 months, 3 weeks ago

1000. Susan Orlean

Susan Orlean is the author of the memoir Joyride, available from Avid Reader Press, and she joins me for my 1,000th author interview.

Orlean has been…

6 months, 3 weeks ago

999. Francesca Wade

Francesca Wade is the author of the biography Gertrude Stein: An Afterlife, available from Scribner.

Francesca Wade is the author of Square Haunting:…

6 months, 4 weeks ago

Me Love You, J-Lo

Volume 65 of Brad & Mira For the Culture...Brad makes his first DeepDive hire...Big Frank hits a hole-in-one...Mira is swarmed by a pack of coyotes a…

7 months ago

998. Amber Sparks

Amber Sparks is the author of the debut novel Happy People Don't Live Here, available from Liveright Publishing.

Sparks is the author of the short s…

7 months ago

997. Vincenzo Latronico

Vincenzo Latronico is the author of the novel Perfection, available from New York Review Books. Translated by Sophie Hughes. Perfection was longliste…

7 months ago

Where in the World Are Mira's Psych Meds?

Volume 64 of Brad & Mira For the Culture...Mira's psych meds drama...Mira's grandma broke her hip...Mira's flu recap...her mushroom trip at the Chapp…

7 months, 1 week ago

996. Angela Flournoy

Angela Flournoy is the author of the novel The Wilderness, available from Mariner Books. It was longlisted for the National Book Award and is a final…

7 months, 1 week ago