This is exactly what I needed. I needed it yesterday, I need it today, I will need it tomorrow.

14 years of interviewing people and the thing that i tend to remember most is which guests were genuinely warm, genuinely kind.

🎬 clip #1 from Episode 918, my conversation with Carvell Wallace (Carvell Wallace), author of the debut memoir ANOTHER WORD FOR LOVE, available from MCD⨯FSG.

🎧 listen to the full episode wherever you get your podcasts.

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If you are interested in what happens when you die, this is the most amazing comments section ever. Trust me.

Marilynne Robinson: 'You must forgive in order to understand. Until you forgive, you defend yourself against the possibility of understanding.'

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⚡️NEW FLASHBACK EPISODE ⚡️

Episode 708. May 26, 2021.

Sam Tallent (NYTIMES BEST SMELLING AUTHOR) on publishing, comedy, community, Doug Stanhope, Vegas, reading, self-education, writing, weed, and panic attacks.

🎧 available wherever you get your podcasts

🎬 clip #3 from the latest ‘Craftwork’ episode, ‘The Life of a Bookseller.’ my conversation w Paul Yamazaki, principal buyer City Lights Books for 50+ yrs & author of the memoir READING THE ROOM.

🎧 full episode available wherever you get your podcasts.

📺 watch it on youtube.

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It still doesn't seem real, but somehow, some way, UC Berkeley and Harvard are going to support my weird little magazine. Which means that after twenty solid years of dreaming about it, I'm making a print mag of writing and art. lithub.com/expand-your-mi…

So like, year 8 of nonstop anxiety.

Your creative writing prompt for today:

Minimalist Graham Greene cover art.

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Episode 918 — Carvell Wallace (Carvell Wallace), author of the debut memoir ANOTHER WORD FOR LOVE (@mcdbooks).

▶️ listen wherever you get your podcasts.

📺 watch it on youtube.

✉️ this week's newsletter is now live, w appearances by Carvell Wallace, City Lights Books, Gregory Cowles, Garth Greenwell, Jason Diamond, Emma Alpern, Madeleine Schwartz, @asoloski, & more.

👉🏼read it online & subscribe here: bradlisti.substack.com/p/life-can-be-…

I want to read all the links in the otherppl podcast newsletter today. Guess I'd better get started. open.substack.com/pub/bradlisti/… David M Barnett Jason Diamond

This is beside the point but has anyone ever looked as cool as Paul Yamazaki does right now? (No! The answer is no!!!!!)

🎬 clip #2 from the latest ‘Craftwork’ episode, ‘The Life of a Bookseller.’ my conversation w Paul Yamazaki, principal buyer City Lights Books for 50+ yrs & author of the memoir READING THE ROOM.

🎧 full episode available wherever you get your podcasts.

📺 watch it on youtube.

this was my favorite novel of 2023 and i'm very excited about this recognition and not the least bit surprised.