Ira Rat

Not Worth Living

Arts EN ↓ 48 episodes

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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Ira Rat

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Arts

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Latest episode

Dec 15, 2025

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Episodes

Not Worth Living - NWL048 - Robbie Coburn 15.12.2025

Robbie 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

Not Worth Living - NWL047 - Bobby Miller 23.06.2025

Bobby 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.com Read his Substack at:  www. BobbyMillerTime.com

Not Worth Living - NWL046 - Rebecca Gransden 10.06.2025

Rebecca 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.

Not Worth Living - NWL045 - Jessamyn Violet 05.05.2025

Jessamyn 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 Ma...

Not Worth Living - NWL044 - Jimmy Cooper 28.04.2025

jimmy 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). 

Not Worth Living - NWL043 - Matthew Kinlin 07.04.2025

Matthew 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).

Not Worth Living - NWL042 - Jay Slayton-Joslin 17.02.2025

Jay 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/

Not Worth Living - NWL041 - Donyae Coles 16.12.2024

Donyae 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...

Not Worth Living - NWL040 - Chirstopher Zeischegg 02.12.2024

Christopher 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.

Not Worth Living - NWL039 - Kris Hall 12.11.2024

Kris 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...

Not Worth Living - NWL038 - Justin Lutz 28.10.2024

Justin Lutz is a Splatterpunk Award nominated and Literary Nasty Award winning writer, musician, and screen printer living on the river in Pennsylvania with his wife and cats. He is the author of Gemini Rising, the charity novelette ACAB Includes Animal Control, the short story collection Gone To Seed, and Give Unto Us. His short work has appeared in Teenage Grave, Gravely Unusual, and Ghoulish Ta...

Not Worth Living - NWL037 - Robert Kloss 14.10.2024

Robert Kloss is the author of The Genocide House (Bridge Books, 2024) and four other novels including The Alligators of Abraham (Mud Luscious Press, 2012) and The Woman Who Lived Amongst the Cannibals (Inside the Castle, 2022). He lives in Chicago with his wife, Meghan Lamb, and their cat, Daniel Day-Lewis.

Not Worth Living - NWL034 - Jon Steffens 30.09.2024

Jon Steffens writes horror and dark fiction. His novelette  The God in the Hills   was nominated for a Splatterpunk Award, and his short story  “The Bone Mother”  was up for a 2021 Horror Authors Guild Award. In 2022, his collection   The God in the Hills and Other Horrors  won Best Collection at the inaugural Literary Nasties. Additionally, Jon was a contributor to  Rue Morgue  for several years,...

Not Worth Living - NWL035 - Meghan Lamb 30.09.2024

Meghan Lamb is the author of  Mirror Translation  (Blamage Books, forthcoming)  COWARD  (Spuyten Duyvil, 2022),  Failure to Thrive  (Apocalypse Party, 2021)  All of Your Most Private Places  (Spork Press, 2020) and  Silk Flowers  (Birds of Lace, 2017). Her work has also appeared in Quarterly West, DIAGRAM, Redivider, and Passages North, among other publications. She served as the 2018 Philip Roth...

Not Worth Living - NWL 036 - Lindsay Lerman 30.09.2024

Lindsay Lerman is the author of I'm From Nowhere (2019) and What Are You (2022). She is also the translator of François Laruelle's first book. She holds a Ph. D. in Philosophy from the University of Guelph in Ontario, Canada. Her short stories, essays, and poems have been published in the Los Angeles Review of Books, New York Tyrant, and elsewhere. Through her intensive series, Climbing Down, she...

Not Worth Living - NWL 033 - David Catalano 05.08.2024

David Catalano is a Composer and Photographer based in Pennsylvania who believes in physical media

Not Worth Living - NWL 032 - Xavier Garcia 22.07.2024

Xavier Garcia is a writer/editor from Toronto, Canada. His short fiction has appeared in various magazines and anthologies published by  Fugitives & Futurists ,  Cold Signal ,  hex ,  Apocalypse Confidential ,  Cursed Morsels ,  Filthy Loot,  and others. You can find him walking the nightmare corpse-city of R’lyeh, or at  twitter.com/xavier_agarcia .

Not Worth Living - NWL 031 - Matthew Mitchell 08.07.2024

Matthew Mitchell is a fiction and comics writer from the Ozarks. His debut novella CHAINDEVILS received the Literary Nasties Award and his short fiction has been published in various anthologies, including the award-winning VOID HAUS. Matthew’s comics have appeared in Heavy Metal Magazine and he is co-editor of the HORRORIUM comics anthology.

Not Worth Living - NWL 030 - Derek Fisher 24.06.2024

Derek Fisher is a writer from Toronto. He is the author of Container, a forthcoming short story collection through With an X Books. He recently published a strange little book called Night Life with Posthuman Magazine, and was a contributor to the Tragical Lizard Brain horror anthology. He's had work in X-R-A-Y, Maudlin House, Fugitives and Futurists, Heavy Feather Review, and elsewhere. To se...

Not Worth Living - NWL 029 - Micheal Tichy 04.06.2024

Michael Tichy is an author and psychiatric nurse practitioner from the gaping maw of grey America that is Ohio. His debut novel, The Winnowing Draw, was just released in February of this year. Previous works include the novella, Behind Every Tree, Beneath Every Rock and the collection, Wound of the West (Castaigne). His stories have appeared in the anthologies Shredded, Into the Crypts of Rays, an...

Not Worth Living - NWL 028 - Jillian Luft 13.05.2024

Jillian Luft is a writer and Florida apologist. Her debut novel,  Scumbag Summer , is set for publication on June 20th via House of Vlad Press. You can read more of her work at  jillianluft.com . 

Not Worth Living - NWL 027 - Jeff Schnider 22.04.2024

Jeff Schneider is a published writer and played guitar in the noise-rock groups Arab On RadarJeff Schneider is a published writer and played guitar in the noise-rock groups Arab On Radar and Made in Mexico. He is the author of the memoir, Psychiatric Tissues (The Arab On Radar Book), a collection of short stories titled Gallons Per Minute, and the novel Therapists Gone WIld. Jeff is editor in chie...

Not Worth Living - NWL 026 - Jon Nix 08.04.2024

Jon Nix is a Filmmaker, Writer and Photographer. He is the director of two feature documentaries. His previous books include Shy No More and The Right Side of Bad. He lives in Cleveland, Ohio.

Not Worth Living - 025 - BR. Yeager 18.03.2024

B.R. Yeager is the author of  Negative Space  (Apocalypse Party),  Burn You the Fuck Alive  (Apocalypse Party),  Pearl Death  (Inside the Castle), and  Amygdalatropolis  (Schism [2]). He lives in Western Massachusetts.

Not Worth Living - 024 - Danielle Chelosky 05.03.2024

Danielle Chelosky is a writer and journalist from New York. She works at Stereogum, edits for Hobart, and helps publish books on Amphetamine Sulphate. Her debut novel Pregaming Grief arrives on SF/LD soon.

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