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local loser
by Damien Levi
Damien Levi is your local loser chatting to new friends, old friends and maybe an enemy or two about arts and culture in Aotearoa and beyond.
Episodes
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Go on Your Nerve with Jackson McCarthy
Multi-hyphenate poetic talent Jackson McCarthy streams in to local loser from Wellington to talk about his new book Portrait. Damien Levi does his due diligence and pulls some of his favourite lines to chat about, as well as getting into pop music, blonde boys, Toni Morrison, and perk butts…
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Theatre Kid Energy with Joseph Trinidad
Joseph Trinidad joins the local loser family as he visits Tāmaki Makaurau for the Auckland Writers Festival. Damien Levi chats with him about his debut essay collection, Lucky Creatures, shared connections to place, the power of memory, and Joseph does a reading from his book. Some links you may…
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I Do Not Give My Permission with Nuanzhi Zheng
Damien Levi and local loser are back for a second season! Is the audio still unreliable? Yes! Should you still listen anyway? Please! For the first episode of season two, Damien chats with playwright/zinemaker/artiste Nuanzhi Zheng about receiving Creative New Zealand money for something...
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Local Loner 2025 with Damien Levi
Damien is solo in the local loser studio today, recording a round-up/recap of reading in 2025, thanks to voice notes from past guests. Alongside favourite reads from Nathan Joe, Sherry Zhang, Saraid de Silva, Josiah Morgan, Laura Vincent and Gabi Lardies, Damien adds in a running commentary and...
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Sticking the (Hoods) Landing with Laura Vincent
It's a surprise Friday episode from Damien Levi to coincide with the official publication date of Hoods Landing, the debut novel from his guest, Laura Vincent. There's lots to learn about Hoods Landing, but Laura and Damien also get into what it means to let go of your book, ask why there are so...
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Grow Up Baby, Mama's Here with Faith Wilson
Damien Levi is on uncle duties this week as he records with writer, editor and publisher Faith Wilson (and her baby boy, Mo.) While Mo is distracted by peanut butter toast and the flashing lights of the audio software, Damien and Faith chat about grief, motherhood, Twitter cringe, phone games and...
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Earning the Runtime with Josiah Morgan
Damien is back in the local loser seat and is beaming down to Ōtautahi Christchurch to chat online with Josiah Morgan, who was definitely called precocious as a child. They go 'refined artist vibes' and get into the literary, not limited to Laura Borrowdale's collection Dead Ends from Tender…
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Girl Who's Gonna Be Okay with Saraid de Silva
Damien Levi brings local loser's biggest fan, Saraid de Silva, onto the pod while he's visiting Wellington. Together they get right into it—what's being read, what's being kept for the archive, and what do you learn about yourself when you move to Wellington? They also touch on trying to shake…
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Pulling the Leaver with Nathan Joe
In this EXCLUSIVE interview with recent Aotearoa departee, Nathan Joe, Damien Levi is primed to find out what convinced him to finally 'pull the leaver'. From Austin, Texas, Nathan speaks to his next adventure as an MFA student, his first impressions of Austin, being a real adult and leaning into...
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Writing In Residence with Chris Tse
Damien gets soon-to-be former NZ Poet Laureate Chris Tse in the hotseat (a Danske Mobler chair in his apartment) to reflect on his three years in the role, the travel, the poems and the experience. There are also some reflections on diversity and the publishing industry, reckons on why there's a...
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San Francisco to Tāmaki Makaurau with Nicola Andrews
local loser goes online to record an episode with poet, librarian and Āporo Press author of Overseas Experience, Nicola Andrews (Ngāti Paoa, Pākehā). Thanks to the internet, Damien (in Tāmaki Makaurau) chats to Nicola (in San Francisco) about her new book, being a librarian in the USA and the...
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Book Design Energy with Gabi Lardies
Reporting live* from Tāmaki Makaurau, Damien chats with Gabi Lardies at her house and together they come up with a really great idea for dead CD stock and discuss book design! They also touch on the Objectspace Book Fair, why everything in publishing is called the same thing, coptic stitching…
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Feeling Pressed with Ash Davida Jane & Stacey Teague
It's a meeting of indie presses! Damien Levi is joined by the Tender Press team, Ash Davida Jane and Stacey Teague while the duo is on a visit to Tāmaki Makaurau. They really get into the world of independent publishing and chat about upcoming work from both writers. You can get Stacey's 2024...
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A Captive Dilemma with Tony Guo
After a little break for the Auckland Writers Festival, Damien Levi is back to being a loser, and he's invited painter Tony Guo to chat. Using Tony's artistic practice as a jumping off point, this kōrero darts around the cultural realms, from Jorges Luis Borges and Lady Gaga, to Hanya Yanagihara,...
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Making (Melbourne) Moves with Maddie Ballard
Damien Levi is in Naarm for the Melbourne Writers Festival and seizes the rare chance to sit down and chat with essayist and sewist Maddie Ballard (because he's staying at her house). Their conversation touches on topics such as the festival itself, unpopular literary opinions, reading—or not...
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H*rny 4 Comics with Sloane Hong
Cheers! This is local loser's first nighttime episode, and so Damien has cracked open a drink to sit down and chat with illustrator and comic artist Sloane Hong. Together, they talk about what Sloane's been up to, her comic Marrow & Other Stories and trying to get back into reading when you have...
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Being a Pick Me with Cam Yates (sybs)
local loser is a work in progress and we promise the audio will get better as we go! In this episode of local loser, Damien is joined by the hottest, gayest candlemaker in Aotearoa, Cam Yates aka sybs. Their conversation jumps from Ocean Vuong to gay rugby, doing a Master's thesis on The Great...
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Under the Sheet with Sherry Zhang
For the first episode of local loser, Damien Levi is joined by Sherry Zhang to record under a sheet in his apartment. They chat about local and international reading, arts practice and writing, recent gigs in Tāmaki Makaurau and Damien almost dies choking on water. *This episode was reuploaded…
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
Damien Levi is your local loser chatting to new friends, old friends and maybe an enemy or two about arts and culture in Aotearoa and beyond.
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local loser currently has 18 episodes available on PodParley. New episodes are automatically indexed when they're published to the podcast feed.
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Damien Levi is your local loser chatting to new friends, old friends and maybe an enemy or two about arts and culture in Aotearoa and beyond.
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