Podcast Episodes

1032. Kim Samek

Kim Samek is the author of the debut story collection I Am the Ghost Here, available from The Dial Press.

Samek's fiction has won the O. Henry Prize…

2 weeks, 4 days ago

REPLAY: Kimberly King Parsons on Texas, Despicable People, and Finding Complexity in the Darkness

Today on the program, a trip into the archive and a return to Episode 598, my first conversation with author Kimberly King Parsons. We were discussin…

2 weeks, 6 days ago

Russell Brand Bible Study

Volume 88 of Brad & Mira For the Culture...Samantha Irby, substitute podcaster...Mira is out this week with a herniated disc...the chaos reigns...Sam…

3 weeks, 2 days ago

1031. Julian Zabalbeascoa

Julian Zabalbeascoa is the author of the debut novel called What We Tried to Bury Grows Here, available now in trade paperback from Two Dollar Radio.…

3 weeks, 4 days ago

REPLAY: Sarah Kendzior on Donald Trump and American Decline

Today on the program, a trip into the archive and a return to Episode 635, my conversation with Sarah Kendzior about her book entitled Hiding in Plai…

3 weeks, 6 days ago

Federal Bureau of Inebriation

Volume 87 of Brad & Mira For the Culture...Mira on how her entire life is 4/20...and how her paraplegic dog had surgery....her new author photo is im…

1 month ago

1030. Willy Vlautin

Willy Vlautin is the author of the novel The Left and the Lucky, available from Harper. It is the official April pick of the Otherppl Book Club.

Born…

1 month ago

REPLAY: Kate Durbin on Poetry, Hoarders, and American Loneliness

Today on the program, a trip into the archive and a return to Episode 734, my conversation with Kate Durbin, author of the poetry collection Hoarders…

1 month ago

Gothchella

Volume 86 of Brad & Mira For the Culture...Brad is visited by animals...a white pigeon...a coyote...Mira is swarmed by bugs...ants...mosquitoes...Coa…

1 month, 1 week ago

1029. Ada Limón

Ada Limón is the author of Against Breaking: On the Power of Poetry, available from Scribner. She served as the 24th Poet Laureate of the United Stat…

1 month, 1 week ago