Podcast Episodes

The Golden Sacrifice

Volume 94 of Brad & Mira For the Culture...Mira experiences multiple traumas in a single week...Disclosure Day nightmare...a rat in her kitchen...wit…

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1040. Ben Fountain

Ben Fountain is the author of the novel Rasputin Swims the Potomac, available from Flatiron Books. It is the official June pick of the Otherppl Book …

3 weeks, 5 days ago

REPLAY: Lili Anolik on Eve Babitz and the Secret History of LA

Today on the program, a trip into the archive and a return to Episode 763, my conversation with Lili Anolik, Vanity Fair contributing editor and the …

4 weeks ago

Brad vs. The Volcano

Volume 93 of Brad & Mira For the Culture...the podcast is huge in Vietnam...Mira's male antagonists go low, Mira goes lower...evaluating the Twitter …

1 month ago

1039. Anne Enright

Anne Enright is the author of Attention: Writing on Life, Art, and the World, available from W. W. Norton & Co.

Enright is the author of eight novels…

1 month ago

REPLAY: Rex Pickett on 'Sideways,' Hollywood, and Adventures in Wine Country

Today on the program, a trip into the archive and a return to Episode 33, my conversation with Rex Pickett, author of the novel Sideways, which was …

1 month ago

1038. Tracy Lynne Oliver

Tracy Lynne Oliver is the author of the debut novel Magician, available from Roxane Gay Books.

Oliver is a writer based in Los Angeles. She has been …

1 month ago

Nobody Puts Mira in a Corner

Volume 92 of Brad & Mira For the Culture...Mira is on muscle relaxers again...and 150mg of THC...watched Dirty Dancing for the first time...experienc…

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1037. Luke Goebel

Luke Goebel is the author of the novel Kill Dick, available from Red Hen Press.

Goebel is also the author of the debut novel, Fourteen Stories, None …

1 month, 1 week ago

REPLAY: Timothy Willis Sanders on Anxiety, Stalin, and Male Vulnerability

Today on the program, a trip into the archive and a return to Episode 788, my conversation with Timothy Willis Sanders, author of the story collectio…

1 month, 1 week ago