Jul 31, 2025

Volume 53 of Brad & Mira For the Culture...Brad approaches 50...the Tesla Diner attacks a woman...the obsession with tall...the triumph of Billy Joel, short king and musical savant...Sydney Sweeney's eugenics commercial...the roasting of Hulk Hogan, an American embarrassment...the Justin Trudeau / Fidel Castro...

Jul 29, 2025

⁠Hannah Pittard⁠ is the author of the novel ⁠If You Love It, Let It Kill You⁠, available from Henry Holt & Co.

Pittard is the author of the novels Listen to Me and The Fates Will Find Their Way. She is a winner of the Amanda Davis Highwire Fiction Award, a MacDowell fellow, and the Guy M. Davenport Professor in...

Jul 27, 2025

⁠Ken Baumann⁠ is the author of the novella ⁠The Christian: A Comedy⁠.

Baumann is the author of seven novels and three works of nonfiction. After working as an actor in film and TV, running the publishing company Sator Press, studying canonical texts at St. John's College, and playing competitive Magic:...

Jul 24, 2025

Volume 52 of Brad & Mira For the Culture...a year of podcasting...Mira's longest run of continuous employment...Mira vs. diarrhea...the Tesla Diner opens in Hollywood...Mira does hot yoga to relieve PTSD...Brad watches the new Billy Joel documentary...the '70s smelled bad...Gwyneth talks about technically...

Jul 22, 2025

⁠Megan Abbott⁠ is the author of the novel ⁠El Dorado Drive⁠, available from G. P. Putnam's Sons.

Abbott is the Edgar award-winning author of eleven crime novels, including You Will Know Me, Give Me Your Hand and the New York Times bestseller The Turnout, the winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize....