Emily St. John Mandel is the bestselling author of the novel Sea of Tranquility, now available in trade paperback from Vintage.   Mandel’s five previous novels include The Glass Hotel, which has been translated into twenty-five languages, and Station Eleven, which was a finalist for a National Book Award and the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, was the basis of a limited series on HBO Max, and has been translated into thirty-seven languages. She lives in New York City and Los Angeles. Photo credit: JiaHao Peng. *** Otherppl with Brad Listi is a weekly literary pod ..read more

Claire Dederer is the author of Monsters: A Fan’s Dilemma, available from Knopf.   Dederer is the author of Love and Trouble, and the New York Times best-selling memoir Poser: My Life in Twenty-Three Yoga Poses, which has been translated into twelve languages. A book critic, essayist, and reporter, Dederer is a longtime contributor to The New York Times and has also written for The Atlantic, Vogue, Slate, The Nation, and New York magazine. She lives near Seattle with her family. *** Otherppl with Brad Listi is a weekly literary podcast fe ..read more

Matthew Zapruder is the author of the memoir Story of a Poem, available from Unnamed Press.   Zapruder is the author of five collections of poetry, including Come On All You Ghosts, a New York Times Notable Book of the Year, and Father’s Day (Copper Canyon, 2019), as well as Why Poetry, a book of prose. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area, where he teaches in the MFA in Creative Writing at Saint Mary’s College of California. Zapruder has received a Guggenheim Fellowship, a William Carlos Williams Award, a May Sarton Award from the Academy of American ..read more

Jinwoo Chong is the author of the debut novel Flux, available from Melville House. It is the official April pick of the book club.   Chong received an MFA from Columbia University. His short stories have appeared in The Southern Review, Chicago Quarterly Review, and Salamander. Flux is his first novel. He lives in New York. *** Otherppl with Brad Listi is a weekly literary podcast featuring in-depth interviews with today’s leading writers. Launched in 2011. Books. Literature. Writing. Publishing. Authors. Screenwriters. Etc. Available where podcasts are available ..read more

Tiffany Clarke Harrison is the author of the debut novel Blue Hour, available from Soft Skull Press.   Harrison graduated from Salisbury University with a BA in English, Creative Writing concentration, and holds an MFA in Creative Writing (Fiction) from Queens University of Charlotte. Writing is a whole-body experience, and her intuitive writing process has helped shape the raw honesty of her stories, and the stories of other authors she’s coached. Tiffany lives with her husband and two children in North Carolina. *** Otherppl with Brad Listi is a weekly literary podcast featuring in-dep ..read more

Available from The Feminist Press Sign up now to receive your copy! (Sign-up deadline for this title: April 15, 2023.) Subscription Options Select —– U. S. Domestic : $9.99USD – monthly International : $19.99USD – monthly “One of the best Political Economy books of all time” (BookAuthority) Every day, heinous acts are perpetrated on women’s bodies in this political economy–whether for entertainment, in the guise of medicine, or due to the conditions of labor that propel consumerism. In Body Horror: Capitalism, Fear, Misogyny, Jokes, award-winning journalist and Fulbright schola ..read more

In the latest “Craftwork” episode, a deep-dive conversation about literary agents with Carly Watters, herself a longtime literary agent and the co-host of the popular writing podcast The Shit No One Tells You About Writing. Carly is “very online”—follow her on Instagram and Twitter—with a keen understanding of the digital landscape and the challenges faced by contemporary authors. In this episode, we discuss what you need to know about pitching a literary agent, what agents are looking for in writers—and more.   Carly Watters is a SVP and Senior Literary Agent at P.S. Literary. She began ..read more

Alex Mar is the author of Seventy Times Seven: A True Story of Murder and Mercy, available from Penguin Press.   Mar is the author of Witches of America, which was a New York Times Notable Book and Editors’ Pick. Her work has appeared in New York Magazine, Wired, The New York Times Book Review, and The Guardian, among many other outlets, as well as The Best American Magazine Writing. She has been a finalist for the National Magazine Award in Feature Writing, and she is the director of the feature-length documentary American Mystic. She li ..read more

Shannon McLeod is the author of the Nature Trail Stories, available from Thirty West Publishing.   McLeod is the author of the novella, Whimsy (Long Day Press, 2021). Her writing has appeared in Tin House, Prairie Schooner, Hobart, and SmokeLong Quarterly, among other publications, and has been nominated for Best Small Fictions, Best of the Net, and featured in Wigleaf Top 50. Born in Detroit, she now lives in central Virginia. *** Otherppl with Brad Listi is a weekly literary podcast featuring in-depth interviews with today’s leading writers. Launched in 2011. Books. Literatur ..read more

Madelaine Lucas is the author of the debut novel Thirst for Salt, available from Tin House.   Lucas is a senior editor of NOON. Born in 1990, she was raised in Melbourne and Sydney as the daughter of a visual artist and a rock ‘n’ roll musician. In 2015, she moved to New York to complete her MFA in fiction at Columbia University, where she now teaches in the undergraduate and graduate writing programs. Her essays and interviews have appeared in publications such as Paris Review Daily, The Believer, Literary Hub, Catapult, The Lifted Brow and Meanjin, and her fiction has been awarded the ..read more