ABOUT THIS PODCAST 🔗
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.
Hosts:
Update frequency:
every 24 days
Average audio length:
45 minutes
Guest interviews
English
New Zealand
18 episodes
since April 5, 2025
episodic
LATEST EPISODE 🔗
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 wrapp…
PREVIOUS EPISODES 🔗
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 …
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 unexpected…
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 so…
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 …
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 …
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 Press…
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 off …
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 b…
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 li…
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