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.

This day is finally upon us... Licensed Poetics react to the biggest instagram poet of them all, Rupi Kaur. Rupi, if you are listening, we're sorry.