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A weekly podcast featuring in-depth interviews with today's leading authors.
Mira is out sick again this week, so instead of a new episode of Brad & Mira for the Culture, I am instead joined by Chris Stuck, who came...
Kim Samek is the author of the debut story collection I Am the Ghost Here, available from The Dial Press. Samek's fiction has won the O....
Volume 88 of Brad & Mira For the Culture...***Samantha Irby, substitute podcaster / guest co-host***...Mira is out this week with a herniate...
Julian Zabalbeascoa is the author of the debut novel called What We Tried to Bury Grows Here, available now in trade paperback from Two...
Volume 87 of Brad & Mira For the Culture...Mira on how her entire life is 4/20...and how her paraplegic dog had surgery....her new author ph...
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 B...
Volume 86 of Brad & Mira For the Culture...Brad is visited by animals...a white pigeon...a coyote...Mira is swarmed by bugs...ants...mosquit...
Ada Limón is the author of Against Breaking: On the Power of Poetry, available from Scribner. She served as the 24th Poet Laureate of th...
Volume 85 of Brad & Mira For the Culture...Spring Break recap...the Listis do Las Vegas...Brad goes Mormon?...Mira in the Cheese Castle...Pa...
Gwydion Suilebhan is the Executive Director of the PEN/Faulkner Foundation, which announced the 2026 recipient of the PEN/Faulkner Awar...
Today on the program, a trip into the archive and a return to Episode 846, my conversation with author Lorrie Moore. (Note: Brad & Mira...
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, So...
Vol. 8 of Story Time, a new series on the program featuring an author reading aloud from his work. In this episode, Luke Kennard reads alo...
Volume 84 of Brad & Mira For the Culture...Brad decries the tribal tendencies of Homo Sapiens...Is Hilaria Baldwin taping a new reality show...
Luke Kennard is the author of the novel Black Bag, available from Zando. It is the official March 2026 pick of the Otherppl Book Club....
Volume 83 of Brad & Mira For the Culture...trying to process this year's Oscars...Brad's Fashion Corner...the Marty Supreme shutout...Club C...
Naeem Murr is the author of the novel Every Exit Brings You Home, available from Murr is the author of three novels, including The Boy (...
Vol. 7 of Story Time, a new series on the program featuring an author reading aloud from his work. In this episode, Tobi Coventry reads al...
Volume 82 of Brad & Mira For the Culture...Brad reviews his AWP 2026 experience in Baltimore...accidentally dropped his winter hat in a toil...
Namwali Serpell is the author of On Morrison, available from Hogarth Press. Serpell was born in Lusaka and lives in New York. Her debut...
Tobi Coventry is the author of the debut novel He's the Devil, available from Abrams Books. It was the official February pick of the Ot...
Vol. 6 of Story Time, a new series on the program featuring an author reading aloud from her work. In this episode, Emily Nemens reads alo...
Volume 81 of Brad & Mira For the Culture...Brad plants a beautiful garden...continues tedious AWP preparations...binge-watching UFO docuseri...
Emily Nemens is the author of the novel Clutch, available from Tin House. Nemens's debut novel, The Cactus League, was a New York Times...
Volume 80 of Brad & Mira For the Culture...Brad's AWP travel packing anxiety...his compassion for Chevy Chase....watching Eyes Wide Shut, lo...
Eric Lichtblau is the author of American Reich: A Murder in Orange County, Neo-Nazis, and a New Age of Hate, available from Little, Brow...
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...
Volume 79 of Brad & Mira For the Culture...Brad prepares for AWP...Mira advises amphetamines...the Pee-Wee Herman documentary...Brad can't c...
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 n...
Volume 78 of Brad & Mira For the Culture...podcasting from the fetal position...Brad and Mira are spiritually broken after spending the week...
Peter Schmidt is a member of an activist collection called The Friends of Attention. Together they have published a book called Attensity...
Volume 77 of Brad & Mira For the Culture...Brad goes to the nursery...encounters an angry pit bull...confronts Mira about her unused Christm...
Kathleen Boland is the author of the debut novel Scavengers, now available from Viking. Boland's fiction has appeared in Tin House, Conj...
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 homet...
Brenda Navarro is the author of the novel Eating Ashes, available now in a new translation by Megan McDowell, from Liveright Press. Of...
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...
Karl Ove Knausgaard is the author of the novel The School of Night, the fourth book in his acclaimed Morning Star series. Available from...
Volume 75 of Brad & Mira For the Culture...Brad's farmer's market dilemma...Mira believes Bob Weir was murdered by John Mayer...lobbies Brad...
Kathleen Schmidt returns to the program to discuss the current state of the publishing industry—and what needs to change. As the Founder and...
Today on the program, a trip into the archive and a return to Episode 616, my conversation with Tim O'Brien from December 2019. O'Brien...
Volume 74 of Brad & Mira For the Culture...we're so back, baby.......Brad and Mira review their holidays...Brad threw his back out on Christ...
Gerald Howard is the author of The Insider: Malcolm Cowley and the Triumph of American Literature, available from Penguin Press. Howard...
Jim Newton is the author of Here Beside the Rising Tide: Jerry Garcia, The Grateful Dead, and an American Awakening, available from Rand...
Today on the program, we highlight the top-5 most-listened-to episodes of 2025. Big thanks to everyone who guested and everyone who listens....
Today on the program, we'll begin a countdown of the top 10 most-listened-to episodes of 2025. Please note that the countdown will unfold in...
Carla Kaplan is the author of Troublemaker: The Fierce, Unruly Life of Jessica Mitford (Harper Books). Kaplan is an award-winning professo...
Vol. 4 of Story Time, a new series on the program featuring an author reading aloud from her work. In this episode, Jeannie Vanasco reads...
Volume 73 of Brad & Mira For the Culture...Christmas shopping confusion...Brad anesthetizes himself with Ken Burns documentaries...Brad's fr...
Susan Straight is the author of the novel Sacrament, available from Counterpoint Press. Straight has published nine previous novels, inc...
Jeannie Vanasco is the author of the memoir A Silent Treatment, available from Tin House. It is the official December pick of the Otherp...