Future Saint of a New Era

Libbie runs face-first into her own mortality and it goes better than you’d expect. Then she talks to artist Mia Bergeron about the realities of working as an artist, the non-utility of talent, and the gift of creativity. Plus: have you ever just smelled stuff? You should try it sometime.

Libbie talks to "Throawaylien," author of one of the strangest and most enduring pieces of modern UFO lore. Plus: that time Libbie saw a UFO, and the time something unexplained saw Libbie.

Yule. Santa's lineage. What it's like to look directly at a ghost. Libbie and author Allison Epstein discuss the most disturbing U2 song to cover on the calliope.

Confectionary deceit. LDS nonsense. Libbie talks to Dr. Kerry Pray about peacing out to the Telestial Kingdom and reads her essay, “All Things Compounded in One,” about growing up in the Mormon church as the wrong kind of girl.

Unconscious driving. Y2K. The worst boyfriend ever. Libbie talks to Ben LeRoy about cursed road trips, spectral roommates, the grim side of the publishing industry, and the nature of God.

Coolness. Egregores. A conversation with M. M. Carrigan, editor in chief of the world’s most prestigious literary magazine, Taco Bell Quarterly. Plus: a fudge riot and ten gallons of tartar sauce.