LitFriends Podcast

LitFriends Podcast

Queer besties, Annie Liontas & Lito Velazquez, co-host a weekly podcast that features a great writer and their best lit friend discussing literature, friendship, and all the ways that art and love co-exist.

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March 10, 2025 66 mins

Join co-hosts Annie Liontas and Lito Velázquez in conversation with Paul Lisicky & Elizabeth McCracken about their chosen sibling relationship, writing to and for your besties, sassy group chats, reinventing yourself on and off the page, the trouble with happiness, and simultaneity.

Paul Lisicky

http://www.paullisicky.net/

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Join co-hosts Annie Liontas and Lito Velázquez in conversation with Yiyun Li & Edmund White about their book club of two, having three imaginary friends, the political vs the artistic, and loving each other all day long.

Season Two is coming this fall!

 

Links

Libsyn Blog

https://www.barclayagency.com/speaker...

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Join co-hosts Annie Liontas and Lito Velázquez in conversation with Paula Saunders & George Saunders about why we bother with writing, blowing up, truth, beauty, the spiritual life, and nearly 40 years of marriage.

Our next episode will feature Yiyun Li & Edmund White.

 

Links

Libsyn Blog

https://georgesaunde...

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Join co-hosts Annie Liontas and Lito Velázquez in conversation with Liz Moore & Asali Solomon about being iconic Phily literary friends and co-conspirators in The CLAW, Philly's literary salon for women, non-binary, and genderqueer writers.

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Join co-hosts Annie Liontas and Lito Velázquez in conversation with LitFriends Melissa Febos & Donika Kelly about their grand statements, big revelations, sentential seduction, queering forms, the power of vulnerability, and love poems.

We're taking a break and will be back for our next episode with guests Yiyun Li & Edmund White on January 16,  2024.

Happy Holidays, LitFam!
 
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Libsyn Blog
www.annieliontas.com
www.litovelazq...

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Join co-hosts Annie Liontas and Lito Velázquez in conversation with LitFriends Lucy Corin & Deb Olin Unferth about their travels in the Sahara, ancient chickens, disappointments, true love, and why great books are so necessary.

Our next episode will feature Melissa Febos & Donika Kelly, out December 22, 2023.

 

Links

Libsyn Blog

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November 19, 2023 9 mins

Show Notes

On our inaugural episode, co-hosts Annie Liontas and Lito Velázquez introduce LitFriends, a podcast.  Each week, we welcome two literary friends to discuss the writing life, how literary friendships get us through tough times, and what they love about their literary bestie.

Join Annie and Lito for Season One as they speak with today's most engaging literary talents and their lit frie...

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