It's an honor and a privilege to share Episode 300, a conversation with Nathan Thrall, 2024 Pulitzer Prize winner. Buy A Day in the Life of Abed Salama from @henryholtbooks.bsky.social: us.macmillan.com/books/978125... Listen: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/e...

Tomorrow on the Otherppl show, a special sneak preview of 'How to Write Autobiographical Fiction,' the new course from @deepdive.audio, avail 10/1 & taught by author Hannah Pittard, whose most recent novel is called 'If You Love It, Let It Kill You.' 🎧 Listen wherever you get your podcasts.

James Gandolfini would have been 64 years old today. It was my great pleasure to write this book about him: mzs.press/SIGNED-Gando...

In this Ep296 clip, Ursula Villarreal-Moura talks about how using an epistolary format unlocked new paths and profundity for her stirring, subtly beautiful Like Happiness. Buy from @celadonbooks.bsky.social‬⁩: us.macmillan.com/books/978125... Listen: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/e...

Sometimes I get asked if there is an equivalent to Roger Ebert today. I tell them yes, there is, but he's in television criticism, and his name is Alan Sepinwall.

In an Ep295 clip, master chronicler & storyteller Wright Thompson discusses the interconnectedness of the world & the need to "go back across the ocean" to truly understand all that led to Emmett Till's horrific murder. Buy The Barn @penguinbooksusa.bsky.social podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/e...

In an Ep290 clip, Adnan Virk‬⁩ talks about having the freedom to riff in his book's chapter, while also having material for even more essays, and maybe another book.🤞 Buy Cinephile, a passionate addition to the movie fandom and criticism canon, from Mango Pub podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/e...

‘He tried to think about what sort of person he wanted to be in this world and how he might bring that about.’ A story by Brandon Taylor. granta.com/stalin-lenin...

In this Episode 289 clip, @jahmalmayfield.bsky.social⁩ describes the dynamic opening of his thoughtful and action-packed novel. Buy the riveting Smoke Kings from @melvillehouse.bsky.social: www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/743062... Listen: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/e...

In an Ep290 clip, ⁦Adnan Virk‬⁩ talks about the atmosphere and iconic announcement at the 2017 Academy Awards. Buy Cinephile, a passionate addition to the movie fandom and criticism canon‬⁩: bit.ly/41oiik7 podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/e...

there is no question in my mind that rfk jr is the most dangerous person in this administration and that his eugenicist ideology threatens the lives of millions of people www.advocate.com/politics/dem...

Great book mail day today: @grantginder.bsky.social So Old, So Young coming out in February, when we'll be chatting. Thanks, Gallery Books! Preorder: www.simonandschuster.com/books/So-Old... Listen: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

In this Episode 288 clip, @camilleuadams.bsky.social‬⁩ reflects on ideas of vulnerability and shame, as rendered in her inventive, unique, profound How to be Unmothered: A Trinidadian Memoir. Buy How to be Unmothered: restlessbooks.org/bookstore/ho... Listen: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/e...

@grantginder.bsky.social, @lukeepplin.bsky.social, and @toniannj.bsky.social are a few of the greats already slated for 2026. You can support The Chills at Will Podcast here: www.patreon.com/chillsatwill...

▶️ Today on the program, a wonderful conversation w @amandayatesgarcia.bsky.social —writer, socially engaged artist, public witch, & doctoral student in the department of World Arts Cultures and Dance at UCLA. 📚 Amanda's first book, INITIATED: MEMOIR OF A WITCH, is available in trade paperback.

In an Ep287 clip, @jordanharper.bsky.social‬⁩ talks about an important sense of realism and the "visceral" that informed his writing of She Rides Shotgun-simply a master work. Buy from @eccobooks.bsky.social‬⁩: www.harpercollins.com/products/she... VOD Aug 26 podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/e...

Public service announcement: SHE RIDES SHOTGUN will hit VOD on August 26th. With everything from an electric performance by Ana Sophie Heger to one of the best car chases in recent memories, it's got something for everyone in your family/friend group/polycule. You probably want to pre-order it today

"I wanted to show how dark and light can exist at the same time." Hannah Pittard's interview with @chillsatwillpod.bsky.social's excerpted from Episode 286 of the Chills at Will Podcast, is out now. chireviewofbooks.com/2025/08/11/i...

In an Ep287 clip, ⁦‪Jordan Harper‬⁩ talks about how the opening for She Rides Shotgun is what his friend and fellow standout writer @blacktopkid.bsky.social calls "Old Testament Writing." Buy @eccobooks‬⁩: www.harpercollins.com/products/she... Movie in theaters! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/e...

It's Opening Day for She Rides Shotgun! In this Ep287 clip, the masterful Jordan Harper‬⁩ discusses what it's like to see his book on the big screen. Buy @eccobooks.bsky.social: www.harpercollins.com/products/she... Tix: www.fandango.com/she-rides-sh... podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/e...

It has taken medical science 200 years to advance humans to the point where people are so healthy and living so long that they can deny that science and medicine is what got us here.

The truth here is so ever relevant, is so simple and profound. I think I might pop it into my next book. Sharing yet again:

August brings @jordanharper.bsky.social, @camilleuadams.bsky.social, @jahmalmayfield.bsky.social, Adnan Virk, and @rubenwrites.bsky.social! Listen to episode with Hannah Pittard: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/e... Listen to all episodes here: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

Congrats to Hannah Pittard for her witty, eccentric, profound novel! In an Ep287 clip, she discusses the book as fiction & how one of her dynamic characters comes from her sister as muse. Buy If You Love It, Let It Kill You @henryholtbooks.bsky.social Listen: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/e...

If you are not a scientist, and you disagree with scientists about science, it's actually not a disagreement. You're just wrong. Science is not truth. Science is finding the truth. When science changes its opinion, it didn't lie to you. It learned more.

Hiatus (mostly) finished! Back with a new episode at 6am PST, coinciding with Hannah Pittard's Pub Day for If You Love It, Let It Kill You from @henryholtbooks.bsky.social. Buy book: bookshop.org/p/books/if-y... Listen to episode: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

THE LOTTERY, but everyday, timed a hundred, in Gaza

one of the strangest things is seeing how many people are fed up already with mass manufactured food (a narrative of the past 20 years: let's make tomatoes taste like tomatoes again!!) and yet are onboard with mass-manufactured art whose only intent is yield rather than being a specific object

The Hillbilly Elegy guy casting the tie-breaking vote to take one trillion away in Medicaid, and cursing the reddest states to more poverty and sickness is truly an American Horror Story.

"It's a killing field, live fire with everything imaginable: heavy machine guns, grenade launchers, mortars... our form of communication is gunfire." www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

▶️ NOW PLAYING: @jesswalter.bsky.social's new novel, SO FAR GONE (@harperbooks.bsky.social), is very much of its time, and it speaks to the American lunacies and darknesses that have come into full flower over the past decade. A great talk w a great writer. Official June book club pick. Listen.

Excited to add @ellomelissa.bsky.social to the 2025 lineup! Preorder Beyond All Reasonable Doubt, Jesus Is Alive!: astrapublishinghouse.com/product/beyo... Listen to all episodes here: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

One last time before the offseason: If you're watching the NBA Finals now, then you might be interested in my next book, "Moses and the Doctor." It's got Dr. J and Moses Malone. Nuff said. Coming in February 2026.

Sameer Project is only able to provide 10 pots of food/day in the South due to lack of funds. They used to average 30. (from x): They recently distributed 8 pots of zucchini stew in Basma camp in Nuseirat and 2 in Refaat Alareer camp in zawayde. Donate now: chuffed.org/project/1132...

They're running a special. You can buy The American Daughters hard cover for only $9. www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0593...

👀 PRE-ORDER NOW: With Project 2025 in motion, the movement to turn the US into a Christian nationalist state is closer to success than ever. This is due to Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk, the new face of Christian nationalism. Read about his plan: www.wjkbooks.com/Products/066...

the transcript for the Omar El Akkad conversation is now up: tinhouse.com/transcript/b...

Y'all... I got a starred Kirkus review 🥹 I'm so verklempt. www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews...

This book is out TODAY! I put my whole heart into it. You can buy it wherever you buy books. www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/725681...

My Grandfather Was a Terrorist by Mosab Abu Toha www.divasofverse.com/2025/05/my-g...

Musk should be asked about this in every interview he does now and forever. To ignore it is a dereliction of duty. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/o...

You can demand a ceasefire in Gaza here: www.amnesty.org/en/petition/...

In an Ep284 clip, Vanessa Saunders‬⁩ discusses connections between misogyny, humor, and speculative fiction. Buy The Flat Woman, which so deftly balances the realistic & absurd‬⁩: www.uapress.ua.edu/978157366208... Listen: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/e... @fictioncollective2.bsky.social

My latest @niemanstoryboard.org newsletter, featuring Ira Glass, @nadiareiman.bsky.social, @samfragoso.bsky.social, @barryyeoman.com, and more... niemanstoryboard.org/2025/05/16/i... #podcasts #longreads #journalism