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Malarkey Public Radio features interviews and discussions with indie writers.
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Signup to Generate a PitchMalarkey Public Radio is hosted by Malarkey Books. The show has published 10 episodes to date.
Recent episodes include "Season 2, Episode 3: Imaginary Worlds" (1 October 2026, 41 minutes), "Season 2, Episode 2: As Long As a Dog's Tail" (24 August 2026, 46 minutes), and "Season 2, Episode 1: Strange Objects" (16 July 2026, 56 minutes).
Malarkey Public Radio publishes roughly daily, with episodes averaging 345 minutes across 10 episodes.
Booking probability for Malarkey Public Radio is 18%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. Malarkey Public Radio requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. Malarkey Public Radio's contact route on record: verified email.
The strongest fits for Malarkey Public Radio are Artists, Writers & Performers. Malarkey Public Radio has a fiction audience.
Malarkey Books hosts Malarkey Public Radio, a fiction podcast with 10 episodes published.
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Episode #3
In which LJ talks with Suzy Eynon about her new book Terrestrial, aliens, loneliness, wanting a bigger world/bigger life, those weird live action movies that Disney made in the mid 20th century, having a separate...
In which LJ Pemberton speaks with Joshua Trent Brown about his new novel, The Walls Are Closing in On Us, genealogy as inspiration, how to write a novel if you’ve only ever written short fiction, the perfect length of...
Episode #1
LJ talks with Ben Niespodziany about how he came up with his personal brand neonpajamas and the name of Pizama Press, what he learned the first year, how that changed things this year, and all about Pizama’s 2026 slate...
Episode #10
<p >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! </p>
Episode #9
<p >On Boxcutters and Feast of the Pale Leviathan, on all the places we’ve both lived, on Kurt Vonnegut and finding your people, on working at Powell’s, on scraping by, on mixing genres, Presidents, Polish darkness...
Episode #8
<p >LJ one-on-one with Adrian Sobol, author of The Life of the Party Is Harder to Find Until You’re the Last One Around and Hair Shirt.</p>
Episode #7
<p >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...
Episode #6
<p >LJ Pemberton is the author of the novel Still Alive, as well as the host of the revamped Malarkey Public Radio. Her stories have been published in The Baffler, Exacting Clam, Los Angeles Review, to name only a...
Malarkey Public Radio
<p >Three excellent novels talk about writing novels!</p><p >Alex Miller is the author of the novel White People on Vacation (Malarkey Books, 2022) and the story collection How to Write an Emotionally Resonant Werewolf...
Episode #4
<p >LJ Pemberton, author of Still Alive and host of Malarkey Public Radio, talks with Mick Carrigan and Axel Kolcow, editors of the esteemed Taco Bell Quarterly, about finding your place in the literary world, which...
Episode #3
<p >Malarkey Public Radio is back! LJ Pemberton talks poetry with Kat Giordano and Adrian Sobol. This is a good time to add that LJ is the author of Still Alive and Adrian is the author of The Life of the Party Is...
Episode #2
<p >This episode of Malarkey Public Radio is dedicated to something everyone in publishing says doesn’t sell: short story collections. Just want to point out that all the writers you’ll hear talking about their books...
Episode #1
<p >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.</p>
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