Podcast Episodes

1022. Eric Lichtblau

Eric Lichtblau is the author of American Reich: A Murder in Orange County, Neo-Nazis, and a New Age of Hate, available from Little, Brown & Co.

Licht…

4 months, 3 weeks ago

REPLAY: Yiyun Li on Grief, Attention, Deep Reading, and the Writing Life

Today on the program, a trip into the archive and a return to Episode 863, my conversation with Yiyun Li from 2023.

Yiyun Li is the author of several…

4 months, 3 weeks ago

Excerpt from 'The End of Romance,' by Lily Meyer

Vol. 5 of Story Time, a new series on the program featuring an author reading aloud from her work. In this episode, Lily Meyer reads from her new nov…

4 months, 4 weeks ago

Bad Bunny Saves America

Volume 79 of Brad & Mira For the Culture...Brad prepares for AWP...Mira advises amphetamines...the Pee-Wee Herman documentary...Brad can't cope with …

5 months ago

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…

5 months 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…

5 months 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…

5 months, 1 week 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…

5 months, 1 week 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…

5 months, 1 week 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..…

5 months, 1 week ago