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Otherppl with Brad Listi

976. Jessa Crispin

Otherppl with Brad Listi

Brad Listi

Books, Arts, Society & Culture

4.8555 Ratings

🗓️ 8 July 2025

⏱️ 85 minutes

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Jessa Crispin is the author of What Is Wrong With Men: Patriarchy, The Crisis of Masculinity, and How (Of Course) Michael Douglas Films Explain Everything, available from Pantheon Books. Jessa's other books include Why I Am Not a Feminist: A Feminist Manifesto, The Dead Ladies Project, and My Three Dads. She is the editor and founder of The Culture We Deserve as well as host with Nico Rodriguez of TCWD weekly podcast. In 2002, she launched Bookslut.com, one of the first and most treasured literary websites of the era; it ran for fifteen years. She is originally from Lincoln, Kansas, and currently lives in Philadelphia. *** ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Otherppl with Brad Listi⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ is a weekly podcast featuring in-depth interviews with today's leading writers. Available where podcasts are available: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Apple Podcasts⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Spotify⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠YouTube⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, etc. Subscribe to ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Brad Listi’s email newsletter⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠. ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Support the show on Patreon⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Merch⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Instagram⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠  ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Bluesky⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Email the show: letters [at] otherppl [dot] com The podcast is an ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠affiliate partner of Bookshop⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, working to support local, independent bookstores. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:44.0

Okay, welcome to The Other People Show, a weekly podcast featuring in-depth interviews with today's leading writers.

0:46.5

I'm Brad Listy here in Los Angeles.

0:48.3

It's great to be with you.

0:49.6

I appreciate you tuning in.

0:50.7

I hope you're hanging in there.

0:54.9

Don't forget to subscribe wherever you listen, and you can follow me on Blue Sky and Instagram. My guest today is Jessa Crispin. She has a new book out called What's

1:02.6

Wrong with Men, Patriarchy, The Crisis of Masculinity, and how, of course, Michael Douglas films

1:09.7

explain everything.

1:12.1

It is available from Pantheon.

1:14.5

I just loved this book.

1:16.2

I thought it was great.

1:18.5

Maybe it subverted my expectations a little bit.

1:21.5

If I'm being honest, you know, you pick up a book and it's called What's Wrong

1:24.4

With Men?

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