local loser
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Damien Levi is your local loser chatting to new friends, old friends and maybe an enemy or two about arts and culture in Aotearoa and beyond.
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Focuses on arts and culture, including literature, visual arts, and music with episodes featuring discussions on local readings, recent gigs in Tāmaki Makaurau, and diverse arts practices, like the premiere episode with Sherry Zhang exploring her writing and experiences.
Damien Levi is your local loser chatting to new friends, old friends and maybe an enemy or two about arts and culture in Aotearoa and beyond.
Damien is solo in the local loser studio today, recording a round-up/recap of reading in 2025, thanks to voice notes from past guests.
Alongside favourite reads from Nathan Joe, Sherry Zhang, Saraid de Silva, Josiah Morgan, Laura Vincent and Gabi Lardies, Damien adds in a running commentary and some of his own favourites from the year.
local loser will be back in 2026, but for now, some links you may be interested in are: the preorder link for Childish Palate by Shariff Burke, Damien's The Big Idea article, Torrey Peters and Andrea Long Chu in conversation on Stag Dance, and Josiah's review of Brandon Taylor's The Late Americans.
Damien can be found on Instagram.
The local loser theme song is composed by Karen Hu.
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