Podcast Episodes

1045. Hal Ebbott

Hal Ebbott is the author of the debut novel Among Friends, now available in trade paperback from Riverhead Books.

Ebbott is a writer living in New Yo…

2 months, 1 week ago

Carmen Maria Machado on Early Success, Haunted Residencies, and the Joy of Video Games

Today on the program, a trip into the archive and a return to Episode 491, my conversation with Carmen Maria Machado, author of the award-winning deb…

2 months, 1 week ago

Explosive Diarrhea in Trump's America

Volume 96 of Brad & Mira For the Culture...Mira sleeps through her alarm by 2 hours...Mira wants Brad to be a drag queen...Mira gets botox....Brad ge…

2 months, 2 weeks ago

1044. Scott McClanahan

Scott McClanahan is the author of the novel Fights!, available from Rose Books.

His other books include Crapalachia, Hill William, and The Sarah Book…

2 months, 2 weeks ago

REPLAY: Candace Jane Opper on Suicide, Obsession, and Radical Unforgetting

Today on the program, a trip into the archive and a return to Episode 693, my conversation with Candace Jane Opper, author of the debut memoir Certai…

2 months, 2 weeks ago

Excerpt from 'The Radiant Dark,' by Alexandra Oliva

Vol. 13 of Story Time, featuring an author reading aloud from her work. In this episode, Alexandra Oliva reads from her new novel, The Radiant Dark (…

2 months, 3 weeks ago

More Mira Mayhem

Volume 95 of Brad & Mira For the Culture...Mira returns...two weeks of pure chaos...an airborne toxic event...a week of tending to a friend...convale…

2 months, 3 weeks ago

1043. Alexandra Oliva

Alexandra Oliva is the author of the novel The Radiant Dark, available from SJP Lit. It is the official July pick of the Otherppl Book Club.

Oliva's …

2 months, 3 weeks ago

REPLAY: Elizabeth Ellen on the Midwest, Indie Lit, and Being an Outsider

Today on the program, a trip into the archive and a return to Episode 99, my conversation with Elizabeth Ellen, author of American Thighs, editor of …

2 months, 3 weeks ago

1042. Zinzi Clemmons

Zinzi Clemmons is the author of the essay collection Freedom, available from Viking.

Clemmons is the author of What We Lose, which was a finalist for…

3 months ago