Imperfect Rebel · with Lupe Farkas

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Books, writing, author conversations, ARC piles, emotional damage, questionable decisions and the rabbit holes that were absolutely supposed to take five minutes. Nothing is especially polished. That is the point.

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Live now 12 August 2026 · 2 min

Welcome to the Chaos — Meet Your Imperfect Rebel

The tiny introduction to the whole thing: books, writing, emotional damage, questionable decisions, barking, oversharing and absolutely no promise that anyone has this under control.

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Live now 12 August 2026 · 29 min

I Wrote a Book. Somehow I Became an ARC Reader…

Indie publishing, Before October Ends, ARC reading, book reviews, the fantasy of becoming an author versus the reality, several tangents and one dog snoring through the evidence.

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Saturday 29 August 2026

Updates from Lupe

What I am reading, writing, changing, planning and probably making more complicated than it needed to be.

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Tuesday 01 September 2026

Come Get Crazy with the New ARC Books

New advance copies, first impressions, books climbing the pile and the ones already demanding unreasonable amounts of attention.

ARC chaos
Thursday 03 September 2026

Roie Oknin · Ramen, Existential Crises

A conversation with the writer of Ramen, Existential Crises about the book, the strange beauty inside it and everything that lives beyond the review.

Author conversation
Thursday 01 October 2026

Leslie Reta · Always, Forever

Leslie Reta joins Lupe to talk about Always, Forever, love, addiction, family, survival and what happens when a deeply personal life becomes a book.

Author conversation

The show

Book talk for people who need to discuss what just happened.

Imperfect Rebel is where Lupe Farkas talks about books, writing, publishing, audiobooks, adaptations and reader obsessions, and sits down with writers when the conversation deserves more room than a review can give it.

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