Apr 16, 2026

Volume 86 of Brad & Mira For the Culture...Brad is visited by animals...a white pigeon...a coyote...Mira is swarmed by bugs...ants...mosquitoes...Coachella, Weekend 1 recap...Trent Reznor wins Mira's jet-black heart...pondering Lena Dunham's tell-all memoir...Lauren Sanchez believes the oligarchy needs to stop...

Apr 14, 2026

⁠Ada Limón⁠ is the author of ⁠Against Breaking: On the Power of Poetry⁠, available from Scribner. She served as the 24th Poet Laureate of the United States.

Ada Limón is the author of seven books of poetry, including Startlement: New & Selected Poems; The Hurting Kind, which was a finalist for the...

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...