LJ and Trent talk craft, editing, and publishing hell.
16 Jul 2026
Season 2, Episode 1: Strange Objects
A conversation about small presses, small stories, and more with LJ Pemberton and Ben Niespodziany.
25 Oct 2025
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!
25 Oct 2025
Episode 9: In the Belly of the Beast
LJ talks with John Chrostek about publishing two books in one year.
25 Oct 2025
Episode 8: Maybe You Can Have Fun With It
Adrian’s new book of poetry, Tom Cruise’s lack of irony, the creative process, different kinds of artists, post-modernist and modernist approaches to poetry writing (omg), how Tom Wolfe is a hack, and so much more!
25 Oct 2025
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!
25 Oct 2025
Episode 6: Just Death
Malarkey Public Radio gets a morbid and macabre makeover with LJ Pemberton, Laura Paul, and Lauren Bolger.
25 Oct 2025
Episode 5: How Novel
Three novelists on noveling.
25 Oct 2025
Episode 4: Some of the Time It's Transcendental
Malarkey Public Radio is back, this time with our friends Mick and Axel, editors of Taco Bell Quarterly, the world’s most prestigious literary magazine.
25 Oct 2025
Episode 3: Screaming, Crying, Throwing Up: Poetry
Malarkey Public Radio host (and author of Still Alive) talks poetry with Kat Giordano and Adrian Sobol.
1 Sept 2025
Episode 2: Short Story Panel
Sean Ennis, Sheldon Birnie, Spencer Fleury, Steve Gergley, and Eric Williams join LJ Pemberton on Malarkey Public Radio to talk about how you put a short story collection together, what percentage is new work vs previously published work, flash vs long short fiction, the increasing irrelevance of literary magazines that aren’t online, favorite short stories, and more!
2 Aug 2025
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.
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