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Apr 9, 2026

Volume 85 of Brad & Mira For the Culture...Spring Break recap...the Listis do Las Vegas...Brad goes Mormon?...Mira in the Cheese Castle...Passover in John Hughes country...Angry Adam returns from London...Trump spirals deeper into senile homicidal insanity...teases nuclear war...LeAnn Rimes experiences orgasmic jaw...


Apr 7, 2026

Gwydion Suilebhan  is the Executive Director of the PEN/Faulkner Foundation, which announced the 2026 recipient of the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction on April 6th—Mahreen Sohail's debut story collection, Small Scale Sinners (A Public Space Books).

Suilebhan is also a writer, arts and technology...


Apr 2, 2026

Today on the program, a trip into the archive and a return to Episode 846, my conversation with author Lorrie Moore. (Note: Brad & Mira for the Culture is on Spring Break and will return next week.)

Air date: June 25, 2023.

Moore is the Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Professor of English at Vanderbilt...


Mar 31, 2026

Jung Yun is the author of the novel All the World Can Hold, available now from 37 Ink / Simon & Schuster.

Jung Yun was born in Seoul, South Korea, and grew up in Fargo, North Dakota. She received her MFA in English and creative writing at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. She is the author of 


Mar 28, 2026

Vol. 8 of Story Time, a new series on the program featuring an author reading aloud from his work. In this episode, Luke Kennard reads aloud from his new novel, Black Bag, available from Zando. It was the official March 2026 pick of the Otherppl Book Club.

Kennard is an award-winning poet and...