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Lumpen Radio, WLPN-LP Chicago 105.5FM launched in 2016 and broadcasts 24/7. WLPN-LP is operated by a community of curators working to connect you with the music and ideas you love. Our aim is to spotlight the hidden parts of the city by amplifying its voices and sounds. We promote open media, uniting communities and magnifying the hard work of artists, musicians, activists and cultural workers like you. WLPN is a project of Public Media Institute (PMI).

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Preserving Disorder • 7-27-2025 • Olufemi Terry

Lumpen Radio ·

2025/09/29

Preserving Disorder is the new book show at Lumpen Radio. Hosted by Jeremy Kitchen, author, and purveyor of all that is weird, offensive, and obscene, amateur literary scholar Susie Swanton, the curious minded Tim Werner. Join us as we try and figure out the Midwest literary landscape and beyond. Produced by Julie Wu, and music by RXM Reality. This episode's guest is Olufemi Terry, author of the upcoming novel "Wilderness of Mirrors", due out September 2025. More information about Femi's novel and

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55:05

Preserving Disorder • 6-22-2025 • Kodo Abe's "The Box...

Lumpen Radio ·

2025/09/29

Preserving Disorder is the new book show at Lumpen Radio. Hosted by Jeremy Kitchen, author, and purveyor of all that is weird, offensive, and obscene, amateur literary scholar Susie Swanton, the curious minded Tim Werner. Join us as we try and figure out the Midwest literary landscape and beyond. Produced by Julie Wu, and music by RXM Reality. This episode is an in-depth discussion of Kodo Abe's 1973 novel "The Box Man." Recorded on June 8, 2025 and aired on June 22, 2025.

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53:30

Preserving Disorder • 5-25-2025 • Jeremy Gordon

Lumpen Radio ·

2025/09/29

Preserving Disorder is the new book show at Lumpen Radio. Hosted by Jeremy Kitchen, author, and purveyor of all that is weird, offensive, and obscene, amateur literary scholar Susie Swanton, the curious minded Tim Werner. Join us as we try and figure out the Midwest literary landscape and beyond. Produced by Julie Wu, and music by RXM Reality. In this episode we speak with author Jeremy Gordon about themes of memory and nostalgia in his novel "See Friendship." Recorded on May 18, 2025 and aired on

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Preserving Disorder • 5-11-2025 • William Boyle

Lumpen Radio ·

2025/09/29

Preserving Disorder is the new book show at Lumpen Radio. Hosted by Jeremy Kitchen, author, and purveyor of all that is weird, offensive, and obscene, amateur literary scholar Susie Swanton, the curious minded Tim Werner. Join us as we try and figure out the Midwest literary landscape and beyond. Produced by Julie Wu, and music by RXM Reality. This episode's guest is author William Boyle. He discusses his most recent book, "Saint of the Narrows Street." Recorded on April 27, 2025 and aired on May

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56:24

Preserving Disorder • 4-27-2025 • Meghan Lamb

Lumpen Radio ·

2025/09/29

Preserving Disorder is the new book show at Lumpen Radio. Hosted by Jeremy Kitchen, author, and purveyor of all that is weird, offensive, and obscene, amateur literary scholar Susie Swanton, the curious minded Tim Werner. Join us as we try and figure out the Midwest literary landscape and beyond. Produced by Julie Wu, and music by RXM Reality. This episode's guest is author and musician (Violet.Fistula.) Meghan Lamb. Meghan talks about her most recent work, Mirror Translation. Outtro music "ATTICA"

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55:55

Preserving Disorder • 4-13-2025 • Deborah Shapiro

Lumpen Radio ·

2025/09/29

Preserving Disorder is the new book show at Lumpen Radio. Hosted by Jeremy Kitchen, author, and purveyor of all that is weird, offensive, and obscene, amateur literary scholar Susie Swanton, the curious minded Tim Werner. Join us as we try and figure out the Midwest literary landscape and beyond. Produced by Julie Wu. This episode guest is Deborah Shapiro. She is the publisher of B Side Editions and author of three novels. Books discussed include 1095 Sentences by Donato Loia, Consolation by Deborah

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56:00

Preserving Disorder • 2-23-2025 • Buzz Poole

Lumpen Radio ·

2025/09/29

Preserving Disorder is the new book show at Lumpen Radio. Hosted by Jeremy Kitchen, author, and purveyor of all that is weird, offensive, and obscene, amateur literary scholar Susie Swanton, the curious minded Tim Werner. Join us as we try and figure out the Midwest literary landscape and beyond. Produced by Julie Wu, and music by RXM Reality. This episode's guest is Buzz Poole, co founder and publisher at Sandorf Passage. Books discussed - In Elvis's Room by Sebastijan Pregelj, Underground Barbie

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56:00

Preserving Disorder • 2-16-2025 • "Bringing Out the...

Lumpen Radio ·

2025/09/29

Preserving Disorder is the new book show at Lumpen Radio. Hosted by Jeremy Kitchen, author, and purveyor of all that is weird, offensive, and obscene, amateur literary scholar Susie Swanton, the curious minded Tim Werner. Join us as we try and figure out the Midwest literary landscape and beyond. Produced by Julie Wu, and music by RXM Reality. This was recorded on January 09, 2025. Books discussed - Bringing Out The Dead by Joe Connelly, a biography of Pablo Escobar, and The Ice Palace by Tarjei

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56:24

Perceptions of the Real • 08-23-2025 • Grace Hauck

Lumpen Radio ·

2025/09/29

Perceptions of the Real is an exploration of what swims beneath our consciousness and how it surfaces through writing. Hosts Sarah Conway and Eli Ramirez are joined by a guest who produces a piece of writing live on-air. Together we will detangle the question of why we make what we make. Airs: Every 2nd and 4th Saturday @ 11AM

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56:00

Perceptions of the Real • 07-26-2025 • Abena

Lumpen Radio ·

2025/09/29

Perceptions of the Real is an exploration of what swims beneath our consciousness and how it surfaces through writing. Hosts Sarah Conway and Eli Ramirez are joined by a guest who produces a piece of writing live on-air. Together we will detangle the question of why we make what we make. Airs: Every 2nd and 4th Saturday @ 11AM

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57:46

Lucha Por Tus Derechos Chicago • 07-23-25 • Ep 9: Las...

Lumpen Radio ·

2025/09/29

Lucha por tus Derechos Chicago es un programa en español dedicado a explorar los ámbitos laborales a través de testimonios, lideres y personas expertas que proporcionan información, actualizaciones y hechos reales sobre los derecho de los trabajadores y más. Liderado por cinco centros de trabajadores de Chicago: Unión Latina, Trabajos con Justicia de Chicago, Arise Chicago, Chicago Workers Collaborative y Chicago Community and Worker Rights, con apoyo de las agencias de estándares laborales y la

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56:00

Lucha Por Tus Derechos Chicago • 07-09-2025 • Ep 8:...

Lumpen Radio ·

2025/09/29

07-09-2025 • Ep 8: Derechos de los Trabajadores del Hogar

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60:30

Lucha Por Tus Derechos Chicago • 06-11-2025 • Ep 7:...

Lumpen Radio ·

2025/09/29

Lucha por tus Derechos Chicago es un programa en español dedicado a explorar los ámbitos laborales a través de testimonios, lideres y personas expertas que proporcionan información, actualizaciones y hechos reales sobre los derecho de los trabajadores y más. Liderado por cinco centros de trabajadores de Chicago: Unión Latina, Trabajos con Justicia de Chicago, Arise Chicago, Chicago Workers Collaborative y Chicago Community and Worker Rights, con apoyo de las agencias de estándares laborales y la

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53:25

Neighborhood Audio Portraits, Canaryville • 07-17-25

Lumpen Radio ·

2025/09/21

This edition of Neighborhood Audio Portraits was created through a four-part radio workshop at the Canaryville Branch Library. Young people will explore their neighborhood through interviews, research and local history by capturing the voices and stories that make Canaryville what it is— past, present, and future.

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Cinematic Interventions • 05-25-25 • CAMP

Lumpen Radio ·

2025/09/21

In these hour-long conversations, I speak with moving image artists about their work, their creative process, and the music that has shaped it. Each of these artists asks urgent questions about contemporary political conditions and the role of the moving image. We explore these questions, their journey into film and video and the commitment to making meaningful images.--- Airs: Every 2nd and 4th Saturday @ 10AM

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Lumpen Special • 06-27-2025 • The Yappy Campers

Lumpen Radio ·

2025/09/21

LUMPEN RADIO SPECIAL The Yappy Campers Listen in on the first radio transmission of Hyde Park Art Center's Yappy Campers! For HPAC'S Summer 2025 Programming, the week-long special topic class Yappy Campers focused on audio production skills and using imagination and technology to create audio soundscapes and stories to share on air!

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Lumpen Special • 06-27-2025 • HPAC Art of Pride

Lumpen Radio ·

2025/09/21

LUMPEN RADIO SPECIAL HPAC Art of Pride This special episode features stories collected during Art of Pride-a day of queer joy, radical imagination, and collective celebration. Hosted by Erika Ordos x Lumpen Radio, the broadcast shares voices from the event's fourth year, including conversation with Efren Arcoiris, Colectivo Multipolar, Natalie Murillo (La Spacer), Sofia Gabriel, and more community members who make Chicago's LGBTQ+ culture shine. I Tune in to hear reflections, dreams, and truths

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Lumpen Special • 06-17-2025 • Twanguero

Lumpen Radio ·

2025/09/21

LUMPEN RADIO SPECIAL Twanguero Tune in this morning at 10AM for a special live broadcast featuring a conversation and performance with Latin-Grammy winning musician Diego Garcia aka TWANGUERO. "Twanguero is a master of three guitars in one. He has crafted a very unique "Twang sound" by weaving together diverse influences and genres. As he wandered the globe's backroads, his music evolves, embracing both tradition and modernity always with a distinctive twist."

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Lumpen Special • 06-17-2025 • Social Life and Death...

Lumpen Radio ·

2025/09/21

Students of a course at the University of Chicago, "Social Life and Death in the City" present audio stories based on original research conducted on the Oak Woods Cemetery on Chicago's south side in Woodlawn and Grand Crossing. These stories ask about the relationship between spaces of death and public memory among the living by exploring the lives and deaths of those buried at Oak Woods Cemetery. Some of the stories engage with the lives, deaths, and legacies of historical figures buried at Oak

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53:31

Not In Distress • Episode 03: A Masquerade of Flesh...

Lumpen Radio ·

2025/09/21

In the serie finale of “Beauty Under the Knife,” Leslie peels the mask on Grafted (2024), a blush-pink body-horror set in New Zealand, where newcomers often feel stranded on the country’s isolated fringes. Lonely Chinese student Wei turns to risky skin-graft experiments, hoping a new face will help her fit in. But when the borrowed skin turns against her, the story plunges into Kristeva’s abjection — the shock of your own body becoming strange — revealing how cultural isolation can twist the search

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