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Dec 21, 2022

Here we are again. Another year in the books. Another Holiday Spectacular episode of the Otherppl podcast.

This year, the Spectacular was recorded at 8 a.m. rather than the traditional evening hour. The reason? I was disorganized and scrambling to assemble a team of people willing to participate in this questionable...


Dec 14, 2022

Sam Lipsyte is the author of the novel No One Left to Come Looking for You (Simon & Schuster).

Lipsyte is the author of the story collections Venus Drive and The Fun Parts and four novels: HarkThe Ask (a New York Times Notable Book), The Subject Steve, and Home Land, which was a New York Times Notable Book and...


Dec 7, 2022

Allegra Hyde is the author of the novel Eleutheria, available from Vintage. It is the official December pick of the TNB Book Club.

Hyde's debut story collection, Of This New World, won the John Simmons Short Fiction Award through the Iowa Short Fiction Award Series. Her stories and essays have appeared in The...


Nov 30, 2022

Emily Pifer is the author of the award-winning debut memoir The Running Body, available from Autumn House Press.

Pifer received her MFA in creative nonfiction from the University of Wyoming and is now a PhD candidate in composition and cultural rhetoric at Syracuse University, where she holds a research fellowship and...


Nov 23, 2022

Kyle Spencer is an investigative journalist and the author of Raising Them Right: The Untold Story of America's Ultraconservative Youth Movement and Its Plot for Power (Ecco Books).

Spencer is is an award-winning journalist and frequent New York Times contributor. She has written for New York magazine, Slate,...