Episodes

  • How to make an indie short film! ft. Eva Chen
    Feb 16 2026

    LP's favourite guest Eva returns!! She tells us about acting, screenwriting, fundraising, producing, everything she learned from making her short film We're not here to Fuck Turtles. Derek and Fung-Ling have different opinions on Jacqueline Harpman's I Who Have Never Known Men. Derek is reading a F Scot Fitzgerald book.

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    1 hr and 10 mins
  • 54. Mars bar + veg soup kind of book… | Borne by Jeff VanderMeer bookclub
    Feb 1 2026

    TOW Derek and Fung-Ling are joined by Tom the amazing author and they discuss Borne by Jeff VanderMeer together.


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    1 hr and 2 mins
  • 53. 2025 Reading Wrapped! Fave books, worst books, life changing books!
    Dec 21 2025

    FL and Derek go through the books they read in 2025, some are all time favourites, some are huge disappointments, others are film and poems and TV shows.

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    1 hr
  • 52. Writing Year Review 2025
    Dec 7 2025

    Derek talks us through The Exorcist, a perfect Halloween novel, while FL goes over her writing year of 2025.


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    28 mins
  • 51. The best movie to watch on airplanes is ...?
    Nov 23 2025

    In this succinct episode of LP, Fung-Ling and Derek try out a new format, the Teaser Section. FL gives an old-fashioned reading update on a fantastic non-fiction book, From the Ruins of Empire: the Revolt against the West and the Remaking of Asia, by Pankaj Mishra. Derek talks about his favourite movie to watch on airplanes.


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    36 mins
  • 50. Writers react to Taylor Swift's lyrics | Full review of The Life of a Showgirl
    Nov 9 2025

    Writers react to Taylor Swift's most recent album, The Life of a Showgirl, and discuss why it's not great.

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    1 hr and 5 mins
  • 49. We react to Rupi Kaur!
    Oct 27 2025

    This day is finally upon us... Licensed Poetics react to the biggest instagram poet of them all, Rupi Kaur. Rupi, if you are listening, we're sorry.

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    45 mins
  • 48. We laugh at Arctic Monkeys because we love them so much
    Oct 12 2025

    This week, FL comes back with a good old-fashioned reading update, talking about Junji Ito’s adaptation of Osamu Dazai’s classic novel No Longer Human. Then the hosts pivot to reading lyrics/poetry. Derek reads John Cooper Clark’s Full-time Loser. P.S. if you noticed the lack of outro, leave a comment! :D


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    54 mins