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Otherppl with Brad Listi

Brad Phillips on The Name Brad, Heroin, Divorce, Suicide, Friendship, the Art World, and Instagram

Otherppl with Brad Listi

Brad Listi

Books, Society & Culture, Arts

4.8554 Ratings

🗓️ 27 October 2023

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

In today's flashback, an outtake from Episode 564, my conversation with author and visual artist Brad Phillips. His debut story collection, Essays and Fictions, is available from Tyrant Books. This episode first aired on February 13, 2019. Phillips is a native of Canada. His visual art has been exhibited all over the world. He is noted for his photorealist style of panting and for dark imagery and dark humor, and for his engagement with subjects like mental illness, addiction, shame, sexuality, and pop culture. *** Otherppl with Brad Listi is a weekly literary 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 @otherppl Instagram  TikTok Email the show: letters [at] otherppl [dot] com The podcast is a proud affiliate partner of Bookshop, working to support local, independent bookstores. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hey you guys, welcome to the show. This is The Other People podcast. I'm Brad Listy in Los Angeles.

0:05.3

It is nice to be with you. I appreciate you listening and I hope you're doing all right wherever you are.

0:11.5

Today is Friday, so I'm going to be doing another flashback episode where I dig into the other people archives and share with you a golden oldie an outtake from an episode of

0:23.0

your today it's episode 564 and a conversation that I had with author and visual artist

0:31.1

Brad Phillips the episode first aired on February 13th 2019 Brad Phillips is a native of Canada. He is a very accomplished

0:42.1

visual artist. His work has been exhibited all over the planet. He is noted for his photorealist

0:48.7

style of painting, for his dark imagery, his dark humor, for his engagement with subjects like mental illness, addiction, shame, sexuality, and pop culture.

1:01.7

When I spoke with Brad Phillips, it was here in this garage.

1:06.5

He was in this room with me, and he was celebrating the publication of his debut collection of short stories

1:13.6

entitled Essays and Fictions, which was published by Tyrant Books.

1:20.6

It was a very memorable conversation.

1:23.6

That is what I can tell you.

1:24.9

One of the better ones I've had over the years,

1:28.0

and I'm excited to share an outtake from it with all of you in just a bit.

1:35.0

Don't forget to subscribe to this show wherever you listen.

1:38.2

You can also subscribe on YouTube.

1:40.1

Follow the other people podcast on social media, TikTok, Instagram, Twitter, and Blue Sky.

1:45.3

You can subscribe to my weekly email newsletter over at Substack. I let you know about the latest

1:51.5

episodes of the show each week. I also share a list of things that I have been reading and finding

1:57.7

interesting. So if that sounds good, head on over to Substack and subscribe

2:01.9

to my newsletter. Likewise, you can join the other people Patreon community over at

2:06.7

patreon.com slash other ppl pod. Help keep this show going into the future.

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