BFL read his poem during lockdown and has wanted to meet him ever since - it’s the incredible Chinese Australian poet Eric Jiang! In this very spicy episode, Derek talks about ‘tickling the yellow’ and his 4am emergency book buying advice; BFL categorises some of her favourites books into Incest, Racism, and Misogyny; and Eric shares his very hot take on poetry readings. Stick around for the blooper at the end!

Find Eric @squeric_ and https://ercjng.tumblr.com/

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Chapters

00:00 Music

01:08 Eric bio

02:53 4am book advice

10:21 BFL story time

15:37 Eileen Myers

23:05 Problematic faves

47:47 six inches (sorry)

55:49 Murakami

59:18 Blooper