Podcast Episodes

1021. Lily Meyer

Lily Meyer is the author of the novel The End of Romance, available from Viking.

Meyer is a translator, a critic, and the author of the novel Short W…

3 months, 1 week ago

REPLAY: Ingrid Rojas Contreras on Colombia, Pablo Escobar, Immigration, and Amnesia

Today on the program, a trip into the archive and a return to Episode 562, my conversation with Ingrid Rojas Contreras from 2019.

Contreras was born…

3 months, 2 weeks ago

Elmo is in the Epstein Files

Volume 78 of Brad & Mira For the Culture...podcasting from the fetal position...Brad and Mira are spiritually broken after spending the weekend readi…

3 months, 2 weeks ago

Peter Schmidt on Attention Activism, Corporate Greed, and Reclaiming Our Humanity in the Digital Age

Peter Schmidt is a member of an activist collection called The Friends of Attention. Together they have published a book called Attensity: A Manifest…

3 months, 2 weeks ago

REPLAY: Vesna Maric on War, Political Chaos, Immigration, and Home

Today on the program, a trip into the archive and a return to Episode 696⁠, my conversation with Vesna Maric from March 2021.

Maric was born in Mosta…

3 months, 3 weeks ago

Erika Kirk Free Solos Trump Tower

Volume 77 of Brad & Mira For the Culture...Brad goes to the nursery...encounters an angry pit bull...confronts Mira about her unused Christmas gift..…

3 months, 3 weeks ago

1020. Kathleen Boland

Kathleen Boland is the author of the debut novel Scavengers, now available from Viking.

Boland’s fiction has appeared in Tin House, Conjunctions, Gu…

3 months, 3 weeks ago

Emily Witt on ICE Raids, Protests, and the Battle for Minneapolis

Emily Witt is a staff writer for The New Yorker magazine and a native of Minneapolis. She has been reporting from the streets of her hometown over th…

3 months, 3 weeks ago

1019. Brenda Navarro and Megan McDowell

Brenda Navarro is the author of the novel Eating Ashes, available now in a new translation by Megan McDowell, from Liveright Press. Official January …

3 months, 4 weeks ago

Mira's Screaming Nude Father Scares Away Intruders

Volume 76 of Brad & Mira For the Culture...Brad's Liver King epiphany...the Indiana Hoosiers are awash in God's glory...Abella Danger's ESPN moment..…

4 months ago