In this Singapore edition of Licensed Poetics book club, BFL and Marlene discuss Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata, the perfect book for misfits, newbie readers and experienced readers! In the new section LP story time, BFL shares a bookish wedding she went to! Marlene has found the literary scene in SG already?

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Theophilus Kwek (Singaporean poet)

Chapters

00:00 Music

02:54 Marlene bio

04:12 BFL story time

13:18 Marlene story time

21:29 Convenience Store Woman NO spoiler

39:12 Spoiler section

59:59 Outro

The makers of the indie short film Looking For Haberfield sit down with Licensed Poetics and talk about their process. Also, they answer one of Derek’s burning questions: what did he miss out on by not going to film school?

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Books Mentioned

White Nights by Fyodor Dostoevsky

Gilmore Girls (TV)

Cleopatra and Frankenstein by Coco Mellors

Araby by James Joyce

On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong

This Is Going To Hurt by Adam Kay

Young Mungo by Douglas Stuart

Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus

Breaking Bad (TV)

Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy

F Is For Family (TV)

Chapters

00:00 Music

00:54 Guest bio

03:03 Reading updates

22:30 Interview

48:11 Film school

You know you’ve found a literary nerd podcast when the hosts prefer reading the script over watching the play/film. Licensed Poetics is collaborating with All The Best Podcast! Phoebe and Isabella share their reading update and how they get involved with FBi radio. BFL and Derek are writing a story for All The Best! Stay tuned!

Guests: Phoebe Adler-Ryan, Isabella Lee

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Buy Me a Coffee! click here Books Mentioned On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan The Hills of California by Jez Butterworth Beautiful World, Where Are You by Sally Rooney

Chapters

00:00 Music

00:40 All The Best and FBi Radio bio

05:08 Storytime with BFL

14:00 Ocean Vuong opinions

21:06 Sally Rooney

34:00 Jez Butterworth

46:42 Being story-makers

50:56 Isabella’s project with ATB

This episode is perfect for literary nerds. Writer Tina Huang chats to BFL about lowering the perceived entry requirement to poetry, her publish writing, and glaciers in New Zealand!

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Tina's work

On the Verge

https://www.tinahuang.com.au/writing/on-the-verge

Phantom feelings

https://meanjin.com.au/fiction/phantom-feelings/

Books mentioned

Passing by Nella Larsen

Peter Gizzi

Marilyn Abildskov

Michelle Dicinoski

Louise Gluck

Elizabeth Gilbert

‘Poetry’ by Marianne Moore

Chapters

00:00 Music

01:06 Tina bio

01:42 BFL reading update

05:09 Tina reading update

11:32 Shoutout to Steph Niu

14:09 Why poetry and creative non-fic?

17:04 Don’t be cared of poetry

26:46 Tina’s pieces

35:04 Essayists

38:20 Writing funny!

44:15 Getting published

LP bookclub returns! Interim host Derek chats to BFL about My Year of Rest and Relaxation by Ottessa Moshfegh, the biggest title in the very popular unhinged women literary fiction genre. One host loved this book, the other not so much. Does it have anything to do with how self-destructive they are? Things get a little personal.

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Books mentioned

Big Swiss by Jen Beagin

Fleabag (TV)

Girls (TV)

Xxx At the end of the world Japanese book - can't remember :(

Araby by James Joyce

The Catcher in the Rye by JD Salinger

Crash Course literature videos by John Green

Chapters

00:00 Intro

04:45 Structure of episode

19:29 Jeremy!!

30:40 Spoiler section

44:36 Books vs vlogs

A real Hollywood star joins LP in the studio!! Eva Chen talks to BFL and Derek about acting, auditioning, improv, standup, and her experience working on set for Marvel's Shang-Chi! BFL met her at a reading event and has since been convinced that actors should always do the reading, never the writers. This is also Derek's first episode as LP's interim host. Exciting!

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Books mentioned

The Handmaiden by Park Chan-Wook (film)

Prophet Song by Paul Lynch

With Love, and Labour by Chelsea Hart (zine)

The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson

The Hitman by Richard Linklater (film)

Barry by Alec Berg and Bill Hader (TV)

New Girl (TV)

Baby Reindeer (TV)

Space Force (TV)

Chapters

00:00 Music

01:12 Eva Chen bio

02:20 BFL reading update

10:02 Derek reading update

15:26 Improv and standup

24:34 How BFL met Eva

34:40 Booking a job

37:43 Eva is in Marvel’s Shang-Chi

47:16 Writer on set

LP is going out-of-studio! In this very special episode recorded between Shanghai and the Blue Mountains, a few recurring guests and new voices share their recent reads! We talk about a book that should have remained a Twitter feed instead of being published, Derek's penchant for disappearing because he's totally fictional, and the fact that meaning is awesome and Abby loves it.

Guests in order of appearance: Cady, Marlene, Eezu, Maja, Derek, Abby

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Books mentioned

The Worlds I See by Fei-Fei Li

The Almanack Of Naval Ravikant by Eric Jorgenson

Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse

Winter Recipes from the Collective by Louise Gluck

All Things Are Too Small by Becca Rothfeld

Never Closer by Grace Chapple (Play)

POV by Mark Rogers and Solomon Thomas (Play)

Introducing Sartre: A Graphic Guide by Philip Thody

On the Road by Jack Kerouac

Babel by RF Kuang

A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara

Butter by Asako Yuzuki

Chapters

00:00 Intro

02:09 About audio quality

02:51 Cady

20:38 BFL

24:25 Marlene

29:34 Eezu

38:46 Maja

42:00 Derek

47:10 Abby

The first ever Licensed Poetics book club is a roaring success. Recurring guests Anya and Derek join BFL in the studio to discuss The Vegetarian by South Korean writer Han Kang, winner of the Man Booker Prize. This stunningly original book asks important questions: what does the pursuit of art justify? What takes away women’s autonomy? What type of tree would you like to be?

Anya: @lasagnevallentin

Derek: @daonationspls

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Books mentioned

Giovanni's Room by James Baldwin

Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck

The Vegetarian by Han Kang

The Last Duel by Ridley Scott (film)

The White Book by Han Kang

The Handmaiden by Park Chan-Wook (film)

The Prestige by Christopher Nolan (film)

00:00 Intro

02:59 Guest intro

07:00 Picking a book

10:55 Overview of The Vegetarian

13:07 Five word summary

14:13 Mongolian Mark

20:38 Becoming a plant

43:31 From a Western perspective