Episodes
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Season 2, Episode 3: Imaginary Worlds
In which LJ talks with Suzy Eynon about her new book Terrestrial, aliens, loneliness, wanting a bigger world/bigger life, those weird live action movies that Disney made in the mid 20th century, having a separate writing life from your regular life, and so much more!
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Season 2, Episode 2: As Long As a Dog's Tail
In which LJ Pemberton speaks with Joshua Trent Brown about his new novel, The Walls Are Closing in On Us, genealogy as inspiration, how to write a novel if you’ve only ever written short fiction, the perfect length of any story, why would a random guy have a fake name?, the importance of…
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Season 2, Episode 1: Strange Objects
LJ talks with Ben Niespodziany about how he came up with his personal brand neonpajamas and the name of Pizama Press, what he learned the first year, how that changed things this year, and all about Pizama’s 2026 slate of poetry and experimental prose books. Ben also confesses he has no idea what...
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Episode 10: My Ardent Love for Vi Khi Nao
Wherein we discuss respecting readers, the superiority of short works, the sapphic eroticism of the pencil, favorite pencils, the work of Joyce, Beckett and Virginia Woolf, and so much more!
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Episode 9: In the Belly of the Beast
On Boxcutters and Feast of the Pale Leviathan, on all the places we’ve both lived, on Kurt Vonnegut and finding your people, on working at Powell’s, on scraping by, on mixing genres, Presidents, Polish darkness, anti-fascist postures towards creativity, anger as a generative force, and so much more!
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Episode 8: Maybe You Can Have Fun With It
LJ one-on-one with Adrian Sobol, author of The Life of the Party Is Harder to Find Until You’re the Last One Around and Hair Shirt.
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Episode 7: Faith
LJ talks with Itoro Bassey about her book, Faith, and what writers she returns to again and again, and how she balances journalism, and what they’re inspired by, and why Malarkey is great, and being first-gen, and generational trauma, and ancestors, and more!
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Episode 6: Just Death
LJ Pemberton is the author of the novel Still Alive, as well as the host of the revamped Malarkey Public Radio. Her stories have been published in The Baffler, Exacting Clam, Los Angeles Review, to name only a few. Laura Paul is the author of Film Elegy. Her writing has been published in The...
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Episode 5: How Novel
Three excellent novels talk about writing novels! Alex Miller is the author of the novel White People on Vacation (Malarkey Books, 2022) and the story collection How to Write an Emotionally Resonant Werewolf Novel (Unsolicited Press, 2019). His stories have appeared in Flyway, Bullshit Lit, and...
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Episode 4: Some of the Time It's Transcendental
LJ Pemberton, author of Still Alive and host of Malarkey Public Radio, talks with Mick Carrigan and Axel Kolcow, editors of the esteemed Taco Bell Quarterly, about finding your place in the literary world, which sometimes means making your own space.
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Episode 3: Screaming, Crying, Throwing Up: Poetry
Malarkey Public Radio is back! LJ Pemberton talks poetry with Kat Giordano and Adrian Sobol. This is a good time to add that LJ is the author of Still Alive and Adrian is the author of The Life of the Party Is Harder to Find Until You're the Last One Around and Kat Giordano is the author of…
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Episode 2: Short Story Panel
This episode of Malarkey Public Radio is dedicated to something everyone in publishing says doesn’t sell: short story collections. Just want to point out that all the writers you’ll hear talking about their books, about stories, about litmags, in this episode all have books for sale in our online...
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Episode 1: Marketing is an inescapable hell
LJ Pemberton (author of Still Alive) talks with Justin Bryant (Thunder from a Clear Blue Sky) and OF Cieri (Backmask) about how much book promotion sucks.