Jun 16, 2026

⁠Ben Fountain⁠ is the author of the novel ⁠Rasputin Swims the Potomac⁠, available from Flatiron Books. It is the official June pick of the ⁠Otherppl Book Club⁠.

Fountain’s work has received the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction, the PEN/Hemingway Award, the Los Angeles Book Prize for Fiction,...

Jun 11, 2026

Volume 93 of Brad & Mira For the Culture...the podcast is huge in Vietnam...Mira's male antagonists go low, Mira goes lower...evaluating the Twitter fallout of her Twitter clash with musician Ariel Pink...Mira lobbies Brad to help her get into the Toy Story 5 premiere....Brad triumphs on Acatenango in...

Jun 9, 2026

⁠Anne Enright⁠ is the author of ⁠Attention: Writing on Life, Art, and the World⁠, available from W. W. Norton & Co.

Enright is the author of eight novels, most recently The Wren, the Wren. She has been awarded the Man Booker Prize and the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction, and was named the...

Jun 6, 2026

⁠Tracy Lynne Oliver⁠ is the author of the debut novel ⁠Magician⁠, available from Roxane Gay Books.

Oliver is a writer based in Los Angeles. She has been published online at a variety of places such as Medium, Fanzine, and Occulum. She co-authored the graphic novel, The Sacrifice of Darkness, with Roxane Gay. Her...

Jun 4, 2026

Volume 92 of Brad & Mira For the Culture...Mira is on muscle relaxers again...and 150mg of THC...watched Dirty Dancing for the first time...experiences a sexual awakening...Brad contemplates Guatemala on the eve of his departure...has learned that you can't flush toilet paper there...Mira wins the Travis and Taylor...