Podcast
Not Worth Living
Hosted by Ira Rat · EN
This is Not Worth Living. A podcast that features creatives interviewing themselves with a pre-set list of questions. Unlike other podcasts that feel like conversations between friends, this one aims to feel like eavesdropping on a psychiatrist visit.
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Not Worth Living - NWL048 - Robbie Coburn
Dec 1500:12:35Tap to summarizeRobbie Coburn is an Australian poet and author of the young adult verse novel The Foal in the Wire (Lothian/Hachette Australia, 2025). His other publications include the poetry collection And I Could Not Have Hurt You (Kiddiepunk, 2023), which was on Dennis Cooper’s Mine For Yours: Favorites of 2023 list, and the recently released chapbook Spur (Filthy Loot, 2025). His website is robbiecoburn.com
Transcribe →Not Worth Living - NWL047 - Bobby Miller
Jun 2300:07:29Tap to summarizeBobby Miller is a writer and filmmaker from New Jersey who lives in Los Angeles. His films have premiered at Sundance, SXSW, and Fantastic Fest. His fiction has appeared in Maudlin House, Expat Press, and Bending Genres. His debut novel, SITUATION NOWHERE, is now available: SituationNowhere.comRead his Substack at: www.BobbyMillerTime.com
Transcribe →Not Worth Living - NWL046 - Rebecca Gransden
Jun 1000:04:57Tap to summarizeRebecca Gransden lives on an island. She is published at X-R-A-Y, Burning House Press, Expat Press, Bruiser, BULL, and Ligeia, among others. A new edition of the novella Figures Crossing the Field Towards the Group is released at Tangerine Press.
Transcribe →Not Worth Living - NWL045 - Jessamyn Violet
May 5, 202500:12:32Tap to summarizeJessamyn Violet is an author, musician, director and editor out of Venice Beach, CA. Originally from Massachusetts, she graduated from Emerson College. She went on to earn an MFA in Creative Writing from California College of the Arts. Her debut novel Secret Rules to Being a Rockstar was published by Three Rooms Press in April 2023. Her sophomore adult novel Venice Peach is forthcoming from Maudlin House press June 10th, 2025. Her short fiction is featured in Ploughshares, Lit Angels, 805 Art + Lit, Adelaide. She is also the drummer for the psychedelic rock band @movieclubtheband. More info can be found at jessamynviolet.com.
Transcribe →Not Worth Living - NWL044 - Jimmy Cooper
Apr 28, 202500:30:08Tap to summarizejimmy cooper is a poet, publisher (furious beautiful), hardcore singer (Texture Freq), and bookseller (The Book House) living in South Minneapolis. You can find his written work most recently in Anxiety (Filthy Loot, 2024), Sluts (Dopamine Press, 2024), and Responses to Forbidden Colours (1988) by Felix Gonzalez-Torres (Pilot Press, 2023).
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Not Worth Living - NWL043 - Matthew Kinlin
Apr 7, 202500:05:32Tap to summarizeMatthew Kinlin lives and writes in Glasgow. His published works include Teenage Hallucination (Orbis Tertius Press, 2021), Curse Red, Curse Blue, Curse Green (Sweat Drenched Press, 2021), The Glass Abattoir (D.F.L. Lit, 2023) and Songs of Xanthina (Broken Sleep Books, 2023).
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Not Worth Living - NWL042 - Jay Slayton-Joslin
Feb 17, 202500:07:55Tap to summarizeJay Slayton-Joslin. Author of books. Looking at popular culture, writing, travel. I was once voted most likely to take over the world by my class.https://jaysj.substack.com/
Transcribe →Not Worth Living - NWL041 - Donyae Coles
Dec 16, 202400:12:58Tap to summarizeDonyae Coles is the author of Midnight Rooms, has a variety of puffy princess dresses and one cat but she wants more of both. She has traveled the world four times over and may do so again. Her short work has been published in a variety of horror and other speculative fiction anthologies and magazines such as Nightmare Magazine, Pseudopod, and All These Sunken Souls. When she's not writing, she's telling her stories with a paintbrush. Her website is www.donyaecoles.com.
Transcribe →Not Worth Living - NWL040 - Chirstopher Zeischegg
Dec 2, 202400:13:23Tap to summarizeChristopher Zeischegg is a writer and filmmaker who spent eight years working in the adult industry as performer, Danny Wylde. He is the author of Creation: On Art and Unbecoming, The Magician, Body to Job, The Wolves That Live in Skin and Space, and Come to My Brother. Zeischegg lives in Los Angeles.
Transcribe →Not Worth Living - NWL039 - Kris Hall
Nov 12, 202400:04:23Tap to summarizeKris Hall (aka Barracuda Guarisco; C.C. Hannett) is the author of several collections of poetry and hybrid works published by Spuyten Duyvil, Vegetarian Alcoholic, Really Serious Literature, Feral Dove Books, Voice Lux, Alien Buddha, and Chat Rooms. Widely published in journals, online and in print, they have also been nominated for Best Microfiction and The Elgin Award. EMBARRASSED BY EVERYTHING EXCEPT FOR WHEN I PUT IT INTO POETRY (Be About It Press) is their latest book. They currently reside in Everett, WA.
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