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Pete of The Chills at Will Podcast @chillsatwillpod.bsky.social · 2d

Me, when I inexplicably follow the convoluted directions from a guy, instead of going with GPS directions

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brad listi @bradlisti.bsky.social · 6d

Tomorrow, I'll be in conversation w Jade Chang, whose new novel is called WHAT A TIME TO BE ALIVE.

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✌🏼Stay tuned...

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Pete of The Chills at Will Podcast @chillsatwillpod.bsky.social · 6d

In an Ep300 clip, ⁦‪Nathan Thrall talks about how his book as a primer on the Gaza/Israeli conflict not starting on October 7 and how the ghettos Palestinians live in are instructive.

Buy A Day in the Life of Abed Salama from @henryholtbooks.bsky.social

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Hannah Grieco @writesloud.bsky.social · 6d

Y'all, you get a free registration for AWP if you volunteer for ONE SHIFT. That's incredible, considering the $$$ of entrance!

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Work Exchange

Are you a current student, adjunct professor, or someone needing assistance to cover the cost of the conference? Sign up to participate in our work-exchange program for the 2025 AWP Conference & Bookf...

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Pete of The Chills at Will Podcast @chillsatwillpod.bsky.social · 12d

It's an honor and a privilege to share Episode 300, a conversation with Nathan Thrall, 2024 Pulitzer Prize winner.

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Pete of The Chills at Will Podcast @chillsatwillpod.bsky.social · 15d

Are we talking 10+ purchases?

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Joseph Fasano @josephfasano.bsky.social · 15d

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brad listi @bradlisti.bsky.social · 15d

Tomorrow on the Otherppl show, a special sneak preview of 'How to Write Autobiographical Fiction,' the new course from @deepdive.audio, avail 10/1 & taught by author Hannah Pittard, whose most recent novel is called 'If You Love It, Let It Kill You.'

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Jason Bailey @jasondashbailey.com · 24d

James Gandolfini would have been 64 years old today. It was my great pleasure to write this book about him: mzs.press/SIGNED-Gando...

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Pete of The Chills at Will Podcast @chillsatwillpod.bsky.social · 26d

In this Ep296 clip, Ursula Villarreal-Moura talks about how using an epistolary format unlocked new paths and profundity for her stirring, subtly beautiful Like Happiness.

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Matt Zoller Seitz @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social · 26d

Sometimes I get asked if there is an equivalent to Roger Ebert today. I tell them yes, there is, but he's in television criticism, and his name is Alan Sepinwall.

Alan Sepinwall @sepinwall.bsky.social · 26d

Some news: yesterday was my last at Rolling Stone. For now, I'm going solo, doing all my TV reviewing, recapping, etc., at my newsletter. I hope you'll consider subscribing. Many more details here:

Don't stop believing

Some news, as they say

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Pete of The Chills at Will Podcast @chillsatwillpod.bsky.social · Sep 11

In an Ep295 clip, master chronicler & storyteller Wright Thompson discusses the interconnectedness of the world & the need to "go back across the ocean" to truly understand all that led to Emmett Till's horrific murder.

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Pete of The Chills at Will Podcast @chillsatwillpod.bsky.social · Sep 8

In an Ep290 clip, Adnan Virk‬⁩ talks about having the freedom to riff in his book's chapter, while also having material for even more essays, and maybe another book.🤞

Buy Cinephile, a passionate addition to the movie fandom and criticism canon, from Mango Pub

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Pete of The Chills at Will Podcast @chillsatwillpod.bsky.social · Sep 4

Also great New York slang: "herb"

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Granta @grantamag.bsky.social · Sep 3

‘He tried to think about what sort of person he wanted to be in this world and how he might bring that about.’

A story by Brandon Taylor.

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Stalin, Lenin, Robespierre

‘He tried to think about what sort of person he wanted to be in this world and how he might bring that about.’ Fiction from Brandon Taylor.

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Pete of The Chills at Will Podcast @chillsatwillpod.bsky.social · Aug 30

In this Episode 289 clip, @jahmalmayfield.bsky.social⁩ describes the dynamic opening of his thoughtful and action-packed novel.

Buy the riveting Smoke Kings from @melvillehouse.bsky.social: www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/743062...

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Pete of The Chills at Will Podcast @chillsatwillpod.bsky.social · Aug 30

In an Ep290 clip, ⁦Adnan Virk‬⁩ talks about the atmosphere and iconic announcement at the 2017 Academy Awards.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · Aug 29

there is no question in my mind that rfk jr is the most dangerous person in this administration and that his eugenicist ideology threatens the lives of millions of people www.advocate.com/politics/dem...

RFK Jr.’s damage to the CDC is ‘past the point of no return,’ Dr. Demetre Daskalakis warns

“The CDC you knew is over,” the infectious diseases doctor told The Advocate. “Unless someone takes radical action, there is nothing there that can be salvaged.”

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Pete of The Chills at Will Podcast @chillsatwillpod.bsky.social · Aug 28

Hashtag blessed

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Pete of The Chills at Will Podcast @chillsatwillpod.bsky.social · Aug 22

Great book mail day today: @grantginder.bsky.social So Old, So Young coming out in February, when we'll be chatting.

Thanks, Gallery Books!

Preorder: www.simonandschuster.com/books/So-Old...

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Pete of The Chills at Will Podcast @chillsatwillpod.bsky.social · Aug 21

In this Episode 288 clip, @camilleuadams.bsky.social‬⁩ reflects on ideas of vulnerability and shame, as rendered in her inventive, unique, profound How to be Unmothered: A Trinidadian Memoir.

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Pete of The Chills at Will Podcast @chillsatwillpod.bsky.social · Aug 20

Pete of The Chills at Will Podcast @chillsatwillpod.bsky.social · Aug 18

@grantginder.bsky.social, @lukeepplin.bsky.social, and @toniannj.bsky.social are a few of the greats already slated for 2026.

You can support The Chills at Will Podcast here: www.patreon.com/chillsatwill...

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brad listi @bradlisti.bsky.social · Aug 17

▶️ Today on the program, a wonderful conversation w @amandayatesgarcia.bsky.social —writer, socially engaged artist, public witch, & doctoral student in the department of World Arts Cultures and Dance at UCLA.

📚 Amanda's first book, INITIATED: MEMOIR OF A WITCH, is available in trade paperback.

▶️ Today on the Otherppl with Brad Listi podcast, a conversation with Amanda Yates Garcia—writer, socially engaged artist, public witch, and doctoral student in the department of World Arts Cultures and Dance at UCLA. Amanda's first book, INITIATED: MEMOIR OF A WITCH (2021), is available in trade paperback.

This is a perfect Sunday episode. A deep and heartfelt and searching conversation about the state of the world and what we can do to resist the darkness and bring the light. It’s a conversation for anyone out there who feels alienated—by necro-politics, pop culture, the job market, fashion, the Hamptons—and heartbroken over the plight of the poor and the disenfranchised, over famine and genocide and hyper-violence and all the rest.

In short, this is a dialogue about overwhelm, and the world as it is now. Amanda Yates Garcia, aka The Oracle of Los Angeles, is a bright and searching mind, and she has a lot of insightful things to say about where we are and why—and where we can go.

You don’t want to miss this one.

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Pete of The Chills at Will Podcast @chillsatwillpod.bsky.social · Aug 17

In an Ep287 clip, @jordanharper.bsky.social‬⁩ talks about an important sense of realism and the "visceral" that informed his writing of She Rides Shotgun-simply a master work.

Buy from @eccobooks.bsky.social‬⁩: www.harpercollins.com/products/she...

VOD Aug 26

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