Podcast Episodes

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…

2 months, 3 weeks 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…

2 months, 3 weeks 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…

2 months, 3 weeks 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…

2 months, 4 weeks ago

REPLAY: Roger McNamee on Mark Zuckerberg and the Facebook Catastrophe

Today on the program, a trip into the archive and a return to Episode 571, my conversation with Roger McNamee, author of Zucked: Waking Up to the Fac…

3 months ago

Fear and Loathing in the Cheese Castle

Volume 85 of Brad & Mira For the Culture...Spring Break recap...the Listis do Las Vegas...Brad goes Mormon?...Mira in the Cheese Castle...Passover in…

3 months ago

How Literary Awards Work: A Conversation with PEN/Faulkner Executive Director Gwydion Suilebhan

Gwydion Suilebhan  is the Executive Director of the PEN/Faulkner Foundation, which announced the 2026 recipient of the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction…

3 months ago

REPLAY: Andrea Bajani on the Mysteries of Death and the Search for Renewal

Today on the program, a trip into the archive and a return to Episode 702, my conversation with author Andrea Bajani.

Air date: April 21, 2021.

Andre…

3 months, 1 week ago

REPLAY: Lorrie Moore on Writing, the Afterlife, and Ghost Stories

Today on the program, a trip into the archive and a return to Episode 846, my conversation with author Lorrie Moore. (Note: Brad & Mira for the Cultu…

3 months, 1 week ago

1028. Jung Yun

Jung Yun is the author of the novel All the World Can Hold, available now from 37 Ink / Simon & Schuster.

Jung Yun was born in Seoul, South Korea, an…

3 months, 1 week ago