Oct 30, 2025

Volume 66 of Brad & Mira For the Culture...Brad airs his 1000th author interview...Mira shares her favorite Otherppl memories...Mira hasn't slept in days...Luigi Mangione is a Swiftie...Mira's friend Alex has successfully bottomed...Angry Adam returns....Disney World has become America's hottest suicide...

Oct 28, 2025

⁠Susan Orlean⁠ is the author of the memoir ⁠Joyride⁠, available from Avid Reader Press, and she joins me for my 1,000th author interview.

Orlean has been a staff writer at The New Yorker since 1992. She is the New York Times bestselling author of seven books, including The Library Book, Rin Tin Tin, 

Oct 26, 2025

⁠Francesca Wade⁠ is the author of the biography ⁠Gertrude Stein: An Afterlife⁠, available from Scribner.

Francesca Wade is the author of Square Haunting: Five Writers in London Between the Wars (2020). She has received fellowships from the Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center, the Leon Levy Center for Biography...

Oct 23, 2025

Volume 65 of Brad & Mira For the Culture...Brad makes his first DeepDive hire...Big Frank hits a hole-in-one...Mira is swarmed by a pack of coyotes after attending an Addison Rae concert....Mira teaches her friend Alex how to 'bottom'...Angry Adam defends his allegiance to Rush and its incel army of fanboys...the...

Oct 21, 2025

⁠Amber Sparks⁠ is the author of the debut novel ⁠Happy People Don't Live Here⁠, available from Liveright Publishing.

Sparks is the author of the short story collections And I Do Not Forgive You and The Unfinished World. Her writing has appeared in The Paris Review, Granta, Slate, and elsewhere. She lives in...