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 Levi is in Naarm for the Melbourne Writers Festival and seizes the rare chance to sit down and chat with essayist and sewist Maddie Ballard (because he's staying at her house).
Their conversation touches on topics such as the festival itself, unpopular literary opinions, reading—or not reading—Australian literature, moving to Melbourne, and a small disagreement about novellas.
You can read Maddie's book as Bound in the United Kingdom and New Zealand from The Emma Press right now, and as Patchworkin the United States from Tin House on 21 October 2025. Follow Maddie on Instagram for updates and on Substack for more writing.
Find Damien on Instagram or Substack.
local loser's theme song is by Karen Hu.
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