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Otherppl with Brad Listi

Brad Listi

Books, Arts, Society & Culture

4.8 • 555 Ratings

🗓️ 13 July 2025

⏱️ 51 minutes

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In today's episode, I'm sharing an exclusive sneak preview of How to Write a Novel, the debut audio course from my new company, DeepDive, which will be launching soon. How to Write a Novel is hosted by yours truly, and it features more than 50 hours of insight and instruction from dozens of today's leading contemporary authors, including Emily St. John Mandel, Melissa Broder, Stephen Graham Jones, V. V. Ganeshananthan, Ingrid Rojas Contreras, Porochista Khakpour, Claudia Dey, Gina Frangello, Tod Goldberg, Antoine Wilson, Vauhini Vara, Madelaine Lucas, Matt Bell, and many more. Today, you'll be hearing the first episode in the course. The episode is called "Why Write a Novel?" and it features a wonderful conversation with Steve Almond, New York Times bestselling author of several books, including the critically acclaimed debut novel All the Secrets of the World, and a superb craft book called Truth is the Arrow, Mercy is the Bow. *** ⁠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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0:00.0	Okay, welcome to The Other People Show.
0:09.5	My name is Brad Listy, and I am here in Los Angeles.
0:12.1	It's great to be with you.
0:13.5	Thank you for tuning in.
0:14.6	Hope you're doing okay.
0:16.1	I have a very special Sunday episode for you today.
0:19.4	I am going to be sharing an exclusive sneak preview of
0:23.3	how to write a novel, the debut course from my new company, Deepdive, which will be launching
0:30.8	very soon. We are in the closing stages of the app approval process. So deep dive will have its own app that will be available in
0:40.7	the app stores and the app stores have to approve the app. There's like a lot of red tape that we've
0:47.0	got to cut through, but we're almost there. If I had to handicap it, I would say probably two to
0:53.1	four weeks before we launch somewhere in there.
0:56.5	Could be two weeks, could be four.
0:58.7	I think that's the window that we're looking at.
1:01.3	It's a little bit hard to predict because I don't control this part of the process.
1:06.2	It's kind of up to the tech gods, but I think that's what we're looking at.
1:12.4	And I will certainly keep you up to date here on the program. Today's episode is brought to you by Tin House, publisher of
1:19.0	Wanting, the acclaimed debut novel by Claire Gia. Wanting is a searing novel of envy, longing,
1:26.0	and regret across three lives and two countries.
1:30.5	It's a book that asks how far we will go for a friendship, a romance, a dream.
1:36.2	It is a love letter to friendship.
1:38.1	It is a powder keg of impossible interwoven desires.
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