Licensed Poetics

LP returns to discuss Paul Thomas Anderson’s latest movie starring Chase Infiniti, Leonardo DiCaprio, Teyana Taylor, Sean Penn, and Benicio del Toro. Both hosts really liked it.

I SPELLED HER NAME WRONG! It’s Can Xue. Sorry!

This week, FL and Derek discuss what a hot person would do in any given situation. They also mention a video game, a few books, and One Battle After Another.

Recovering from their respective crash outs, the hosts of LP returns with an unexpected printer story, two reading updates, and a film update.

This week, the hosts discuss with some very French topics. FL begins her Annie Ernaux phase again. Derek watches a film and gets fascinated by its lesbian author. Finally, FL reveals she had a dream about Derek that made her sob.

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.

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

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.

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

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