THE CONTEXTUAL LIFE OFFERS A ROBUST REVIEW OF OTHER PEOPLE

Other People has gotten a rave review over at a blog called The Contextual Life.  (Thanks to Gabrielle Gantz!)

To read the full review, just click right here.

INTERVIEW WITH ELECTRIC LITERATURE

I’ve been interviewed by Electric Literature, which has some really nice things to say about the podcast. Many thanks to Julia Jackson, editor of the Electric Dish.

Here’s the intro to the interview:

A few weeks ago, I first listened to a new literary podcast: Other People with Brad Listi, which I found through Melissa Febos‘ Facebook profile. She was interviewed on it, as well as other people that I admire and am interested in: Victoria Patterson, Megan Boyle, Steve Almond, Emma Straub, and more. While I expected the podcast to be interesting I was blown away, finding it downright enjoyable — and now I’m hooked. In a world full of distractions — where almost everything I encounter is practically begging me not to write — Brad Listi’s podcast has made me hit the pause button on my iTunes, blow off social obligations, and sit my ass down in a chair and write. The show is funny, insightful, entertaining, affirming, and, more than anything — inspiring. It easily one of the best podcasts on the web. Because I am now such a fan I wanted to ask Brad a few questions, and he kindly obliged.

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IMPOSE MAGAZINE HAS NICE THINGS TO SAY ABOUT OTHER PEOPLE

Josh Spilker of IMPOSE magazine has written a nice review of the podcast.

Here’s the gist:

there’s been a new entry. Other People Podcast by Brad Listi. Brad is from The Nervous Breakdown and does it right. He talks to novelists about writing. He talks about their personal quirks. He touches a bit on their books, but if you’ve never read their books, you can still hang. Instead Listi brings personality to writers, whether it’s getting at Emma Straub’s baked goods habit, Jonathan Evison’s toilet habits or Blake Butler’s insomnia habit.

I started with Other People on Blake Butler’s episode, became enchanted, found some other writers I knew, and am now moving over to the writers I don’t know, just because Brad uncovers all types of literary life marginalia that brings comfort to us amateurs who wonder if we’re doing it right.

EPISODE 3 — EMMA STRAUB

And here we have Other People - Episode 3.  My conversation with Emma Straub, rising star author of Flyover State (a novella), Other People We Married (a story collection), and the forthcoming debut novel Laura Lamont’s Life in Pictures, which will be published by Riverhead Press.

Just click that blue link to listen to Emma.  She’s a goodie.