Book Club from Hell
Jack Cuthbertson and Capitalisimo 190 episodes Nov 8, 2026
Book Club from Hell is a podcast in which hosts Jack Cuthbertson and Capitalisimo read and discuss books, including both cursed and non-cursed titles. The show blends literary conversation with informal, humorous book-club banter. Episodes focus on the hosts' reactions to the books they choose and the strange or cursed material they encounter.
Episodes
Audience Capture - Jack Cuthbertson
Jack has a new novel! Friend of the pod and (real life) friend of Jack (me) Felix McNamara comes on the show to talk to Jack (me) about Audience Capture (my new book).And what is Audience Capture about? I'm (Jack) glad you asked...Atlas and the Shruggers. Four members, billions of fans. A band so popular as to be world government. The best music, the best storylines. Full spectrum audio-v
#153 The Aesthetic Revolution - Dr Mike Israetel, PhD
Levi returns to talk about a milestone in the fitness industry: a book about our coming body-modification future, largely written by an entity without a body (Google Gemini). Dr Michael Israetel, PhD, is a fitness influencer, bodybuilder, and proponent of science-based lifting. His most recent book is interesting for a number of reasons. One such reason is that Hachette Book Group would p
#152 From the Inside: Chopper 1 - Mark Brandon 'Chopper' Read, edited by John Silvester and Andrew Rule
Jack has an upcoming novel called 'Audience Capture', out October 2026 through Bonfire Books! Preorder now! https://bonfirebooks.org/product/audience-capture-by-jack-cuthbertson-pre-order/Mark Brandon Read, better known by his nom du crime 'Chopper', was an Australian celebrity criminal. His portfolio of misdeeds includes robbing drug dealers and pimps, shooting a few people, holding a co
#151 Sodomy Punish'd - Leondert Hussenlosch
I WILL BE READING AT PSEUDO-EVENT 3 IN NEW YORK ON SEPTEMBER 26TH! PLEASE COME ALONG AND SAY HELLO!More information: https://redroomnyc.com/event/pseudo-event-3-private-curtain/Sorry for the long gap between uploads here, have had a few problems in non-podcast life which meant that recording and uploading new episodes has had to (still has to) take a back seat.Sodomy Punish'd is based on
#150 Sonichu - Chris Chan
Christian/Christine Weston Chandler is a human feedback loop. Autistic and obsessed with documenting his own life and obsessions - video games, anime, the search for a boyfriend-free girl, etc - he has uploaded countless hours of rambling autobiography onto the internet. This, in turn, has attracted a group of people dedicated to assembling and examining the output of Chris Chan. Now for
Pierce - John Jay Stancliff
Pierce is a just-released novel by John Jay Stancliff, and you should buy it. Following multiple generations of the Collier family, it is a tightly-paced examination of our contingent place in the world, our inevitable mistakes in forming something fixed in such contingency, and the burden of subsequent generations to repeat our mistakes. It also includes some of the tensest depictions of
#149 The Columbine Diaries - Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold
The Columbine High School massacre occurred on April 20th, 1999, in Columbine, Colorado. Perpetrated by high school seniors Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold, it occupies a strange, mimetic place in our culture. Aesthetically inspired by media such as Natural Born Killers, Doom II and Duke Nukem 3d, it went on to provide a template for subsequent mass casualty attacks on soft targets, such as
Atrocities w/ Felix McNamara
Atrocities is an epic poem (of sorts), out soon from Hyperidean Press. In it, Felix McNamara explores the end of the End of History with a great deal of humour (it's a very, very funny poem), insight, talk show panels (starring, among others, Marvin Heemeyer, Tucker Carlson, Steve Bannon, and William Blake), ape attacks, and more. I'd really encourage everyone to get a copy!I will be atte
#148 Demons: An Eyewitness Account - Howard Pittman
In 1979, Howard Pittman, former policeman and subsequent Baptist minister, suffered a medical emergency and was clinically dead for fifteen minutes. While dead, he was tempted by Satan. Upon rejecting Satan's advances, angels took Pittman on a tour of Second Heaven, kind of like a double of our world, but full of demons. He also got to talk to God (unimpressed with Pittman's life).Pittman
#147 Tarr - Wyndham Lewis
Wyndham Lewis was a 20th-century painter and writer, famous for his involvement in the Vorticist movement, his constant feuds with just about everyone who tried to help him, his acidic satire, explosive political tracts, and for calling Adolf Hitler 'a man of peace'. I think he should be a lot more famous for his novels, such as the topic of today's episode: Tarr, first published in 1918
#146 The Screwtape Letters - C.S. Lewis w/ Art of Darkness
Surprise release! Clive Staples Lewis was a Christian apologist, Oxford don and spanking enthusiast. The Screwtape Letters is one of his many books, an epistolary novel published serially in the (now-defunct) Anglican weekly newspaper The Guardian during the Second World War. The letters are written by Uncle Screwtape, a demon administrator in the bureaucracy of Hell, and addressed to his
#145 My Miserable Life as an Asian Boy Growing up in America - Ling Anderson
My Miserable Life as an Asian Boy Growing up in America: Humiliation, Forced Feminization, Forced Homosexuality, Castration, Brainwashing, Slavery, Solitary Confinement, Despair (2018) is the (completely factually true) story of author Ling Anderson's life. As an Asian male, Ling explains, his role is to serve white cock as a brainwashed sissy sex slave; this book is an explanation as to
Rhymes w/ Tom Will
Rhymes (2026) is another Tom Will poetry collection from Tom Will, in which he invents the technique of rhyming. It contains plenty of roundels, a form created by Algernon Charles Swinburne, as well as triolets, rondels, villanelles, sonnets, englyns, several original translations of French poetry into English, and no limericks. Being a Tom Will collection, there are cats, moons, townies,
#144 The Red Star - Mikhail Bogdanov w/ Parker Longbaugh
Important announcement! Today we say farewell to Levi (BCFH in peace), and welcome new cohost Capitalisimo, who has previously appeared on this show for the Cyclomancy and An Amazing Journey into the Psychotic Mind episodes!Alexander Bogdanov (born Malinovsky) was one of the original members of the Bolshevik Party, eventual opponent of Vladimir Lenin, and active participant in the 1905 Re
#143 Adolf Hitler: the Last Avatar - Miguel Serrano w/ Hillbilly Viking
Important! Jack has an upcoming novel called 'Audience Capture', out October 2026 through Bonfire Books!Miguel Serrano was a Chilean diplomat who really, really liked Hitler. So much so, in fact, that he spent much of his life communing with Hitler's astral body, promoting Esoteric Hitlerism at home and abroad, travelling the world to find the esoteric hiding places of the Nazis (includin
#142 The Marriage of Heaven and Hell - William Blake w/ Liam Blackford
William Blake was a poet, artist, and spiritual Yagi antenna, who lived in 18th- and 19th-century England. The Marriage of Heaven and Hell (probably written around 1790) is a collection of pictures, poems, aphorisms, and strange prose pieces, all describing Blake's particular religious (that is to say, not Religious) worldview. Joining me is Western Australia's foremost chronicler of men
Carbon Pages w/ Daniel Gavilovski
Carbon Pages is Daniel Gavilovsky’s new collection of plays. The centrepiece of this book is No Weapon Formed Against You, a semi-historical, semi-speculative impossible-to-stage play about the formation of the National Bolshevik Party by Alexander Dugin, Igor Letov and Eduard Limonov, and all narrated by a forgotten ancient demon. Somehow, Daniel managed to deliver on such a potent conce
#141 Ass Goblins of Auschwitz - Cameron Pierce w/ Phil Rot
I don't really know what I can tell you about this book that its remarkable title and cover art leave out. Words, as always, ultimately fail to capture what can only be directly experienced. The wonderful Phil Rot joined me to try, and fail, to capture the totality of Ass Goblins.Buy The Moon Is Gay: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0G6Y2L3WK/Phil Rot on Substack: https://philrot.substack.com/V
The Stud w/ Liam Blackford
The Stud is an unpublished manuscript by Perth-dwelling life form Liam Blackford. It is set in a near-future, hypernatal Western Australia, and follows the lives of four stylish, elite women and one man in a 'stud house'. That is to say, the man, Luke, is employed by the four women to get them all pregnant as frequently as he can, as well as treating each of them as his queen.A very funny
#140 Towards a Gay Art of Suffering w/ David Moulton
David Moulton wrote an article called 'Towards a Gay Art of Suffering', which was published in Verdurin's collection 'Inversion: Gay Life After the Homosexual'. In it, he uses the framing of Ivan Illich's concept of suffering, and the works of Péter Nádas, Gean Genet, and more, to talk about all sorts of uncontroversial topics. These topics include the 'state religion' of LGBTQ+, revision
#139 Limits to Medicine - Ivan Illich w/ Lucas Smith
Limits to Medicine (1975) describes how and why industrialised medicine contributes to an 'iatrogenic society', in which all political grievances are converted into demands for more industrial commodities. Helping me out with this easy and straightforward topic is Lucas Smith, ruling theocrat of Bonfire Books, an excellent small publisher who will be releasing my next novel, Audience Capt
Fedbook w/ John Jay Stancliff
Fedbook is a good book about feds. Less glibly, it's a ton of fun, a gothic espionage thriller about an informant placed in a terror cell, one planning a mass-casualty attack on a university. It's formally inventive, surprising, and, despite the whole mass-shooter thing, it's also very funny. John and I talked about Fedbook, his upcoming book ('Pierce', to be released by Farthest Heaven),
#138 An Amazing Journey into the Psychotic Mind: Breaking the Spell of the Ivory Tower - Jerry Marzinsky and Sherry Swiney w/ Capitalisimo
Prison psychologist Jerry Marzinsky and civil engineer, quantum expert, computer programmer and occasional voice-hearer Sherry Swiney have developed a new theory of schizophrenia. As it happens, the voices one hears are not hallucinations, but instead thoughts inserted by cosmic predators, who feed off the negative energy produced by humans in a state of misery. How did Jerry and Sherry f
#137 Morning Glory Milking Farm - CM Nascosta w/ Leigh Cuen
Morning Glory Milking Farm (2022) is an extremely successful self-published work of 'monster-bait' romantasy. In short, it details the budding relationship between Violet, a human female, and Rourke, a minotaur male, who met at Morning Glory Milking Farm, where Violet is working as a minotaur milking technician. There's a point at which a euphemism becomes more descriptive than that which
#136 Sacred Heart of the Purple Dawn - William Vanstone w/ Emshen
Emshen joins me this episode to talk about Sacred Heart of the Purple Dawn, a bizarre choose-your-own-adventure novel (kind of) written by a man Emshen once got a Tarot reading from. Starring lesbian vampires, 90s action film comic relief black men, and (most horrifyingly) the Québécois, it was both a much more exhausting and much funnier experience than I was expecting.Sun Cross Publicat
The Moon Is Gay w/ Phil Rot
Phil Rot is back! After winning the Nobel Prize in Physics for his micronovel The Raft, Phil is gearing up for another Nobel with his newly-released The Moon Is Gay. Besides having maybe the best book title of all time, it is also a brave, timely, elegiac, lyrical, epochal, and moving account of camgirl diplomacy in a fast-paced, competitive, ultra-convenient, AI-enabled Amazon future. It
#135 Vaught's Practical Character Reader - L.A. Vaught w/ Capitalisimo
I tend to think of phrenology as a 19th-century phenomenon. In 1902, LA Vaught, late to the party, published 'Vaught's Practical Character Reader', a work seeking to (re)popularise phrenology. Mostly charming drawings and advertisements for phrenology ('it's plain to see!' is a commonly used phrase), it's a fun read, albeit one that is so chaotically set out that it's kinda hard to follow
The Earthen Dark w/ Brad Kelly
Brad Kelly, of the Method and Madness podcast, returns to talk about his new book, The Earthen Dark. It's a work of weird fiction set in a sewer. Turns out, this is the perfect place to set such a tale. We talked about why subterranean places are so spooky, the near and far alien of weird fiction, the Glass Bead Game and LLMs, the effect of having children on one's writing, the provenance
Utter Goodness w/ Audrey Lee
Utter Goodness is an upcoming short story collection written by Audrey Lee and published by Farthest Heaven. Its thirteen stories are lovely character studies, various faces of that peculiarly American form of cultural maximalism, and each rendered in very lithe prose. There's a kinda extemporising quality to the writing here, if one could extemporise in full paragraphs with foreshadowing
#134 - The Decline of the West (Vol. II - Chapters VII-IX) - Oswald Spengler w/ Gabe 'Skyrim Pseudomorphosis' Sinclair
Chapters VIII, VIII and IX, titled 'Problems of the Arabian Culture', are some of the most fun in all of Spengler's work. In order to properly illuminate Spenglerian concepts like pseudomorphosis, the Pagan Church, the second religiousness, Islam as Magian Civilisation, and more, Gabe and I did what we do best: talk about gaming in Spenglerian terms. Turns out, Croteam's Serious Sam franc
Crowbar w/ Andrew Edwards
Andrew Edwards is the author of the novels King of Dogs (2019) and Crowbar (2025), both of which are well worth reading. King of Dogs is a tense action novel, while Crowbar feels like reading Programmed to Kill and watching thirty conspiracy thrillers at the same time during a speed comedown. It's a lot. For this episode, I softballed Andy with simple questions like 'What is the supernatu
#133 The Regime of the Brother: After the Patriarchy - Juliet Flower MacCannell w/ Stephen G Adubato
The Regime of the Brother is a book of psychoanalytic feminist theory (particularly leaning on Lacan), explaining why we no longer live in an Oedipal patriarchy, but rather live in a 'sham-Oedipus' regime of the brother. Neo-totemism, the primal hoard, the narcissistic ego as a consequence of failed symbolic castration and, consequently, no entry into the symbolic order. Make sense? Eithe
Farthest Heaven w/ Bill Ballard
Farthest Heaven is publishing some of the most exciting poetry and (soon!) fiction around today. I got to talk to the First Consul (an in-house naming convention) of Farthest Heaven, Bill Ballard, about book design, finding great authors, his approach to editing, what it means to run a small press, and a whole lot more. I was really looking forward to this one, Farthest Heaven has only pu
£, flesh and Femoid w/ Aaron Barry
£, flesh and Femoid are a novella and novel, respectively, written by Aaron Barry and published by McBussy Publishing. Both star poorly-adjusted female leads suffering terminal brainrot, and both are written in a dense, internet-inflected style.In line with both books' preoccupations, this episode we talked about how to write the internet (and what that might even mean), the childish defe
#132 Pretty Boys Are Poisonous - Megan Fox w/ Aaron Barry aka Jasper Ceylon
Pretty Boys Are Poisonous (2023) is a poetry collection written by actress Megan Fox. Mostly focusing on her troubled relationship with professional machine-gun Colson Baker, the poems are surprisingly adolescent for a (currently) 39-year-old mother of four. To assist me in parsing these poems, Aaron Barry, aka Jasper Ceylon, joined me for this episode.Aaron/Jasper's work:Echolalia Review
Officeparks w/ Noam Hessler
Officeparks is a wonderful poetry collection from Noam Hessler, and yet another winner published by Farthest Heaven. Romantic, funny, and shot through with an easy, natural experimentation, Officeparks is a real treat. I'm trying hard not to be too effusive in my praise, in case people think I'm being disingenuous, but these poems really are that good. Anyway, Noam and I got to talk about
#131 This Hoe Got Roaches in Her Crib - Quan Millz w/ Slater aka Simpulacra
Quan Millz is a maestro of urban fiction. Since 2017, he has self-published over 70 books and (apparently) made more than $500,000 from titles such as Old THOT Next Door, Pastors Eat Pwussy Too, Pregnant by My Gay Stepdaddy, and, the subject of today's episode, This Hoe Got Roaches in Her Crib. It's a tale of characters who make remarkably poor decisions, and with a tone veering wildly be
Like You Have a Choice w/ Ivan Niccolai, aka Notes from the Periphery
Like You Have a Choice is the first short story collection from Ivan Niccolai, the man behind the Notes from the Periphery Substack. We talk about Melbourne's inner-north, wogs, JG Ballard, Mark Fisher, Nick Land, bilingual writing, watering the driveway on Sunday morning (wogs), accelerationism, lemon trees in the back yard (wogs), illegal satellite dishes in the back yard (wogs), and a
#130 Eumeswil - Ernst Jünger w/ Brad Kelly
Eumeswil (1977) is one of Jünger's final novels, and is bizarre, inscrutable, and wonderful. It is, in many ways, a glassy dramatisation of the second volume of Oswald Spengler's The Decline of the West, and also an introduction to Jünger's archetype of the anarch, a series of odd animal metaphors, a collection of fragmented musings by a survivor of two World Wars, and a whole lot more.He
Grendel VVept/Playing God w/ C.P. Serret
Grendel VVept is a bizarre book that I can kind of describe as Joycean cosmic horror, but that doesn't cover everything. Traveling through time and prose styles, from today to Renaissance Italy to Sumer to ages even more distant, it's disorienting in a fascinating way. Playing God, the other book of Serret's that I read for this episode, is a tight novella set in 1969 America, with a lot
#129 The Decline of the West (Vol. II - Chapters IV-VI) - Oswald Spengler w/ Gabe Sinclair
Gabe Sinclair and I talk about the 'Cities and Peoples' section of the second volume of Spengler's The Decline of the West. Cities versus nomads, Spengler's particular definition of race, language, landscape, The Elder Scrolls, and a whole lot more.Gabe on X: @ezrarunnaroundTooky's Mag on X: @tookysmagVERY IMPORTANT INFORMATIONJack has published a novel called Tower!Amazon: https://www.am
Sleep Capricorn w/ Jack Norman
Sleep Capricorn is an absolutely fantastic short story collection by Jack Norman, to be published soon by Bonfire Books. Formally inventive with some of the best prose I've read in years, everyone should go get a copy from www.bonfirebooks.org.Jack on X: @Thingol2006Jack on Substack: thingol.substack.comVERY IMPORTANT INFORMATIONJack has published a novel called Tower!Amazon: https://www.
#128 Cyclomancy: The Secret of Psychic Power Control - Frank Rudolph Young w/ Capitalisimo
Cyclomancy: The Secret of Psychic Power Control (1966) is a self-help book written to give readers access to their Primal Autoconscious. Why would someone want access to their Primal Autoconscious? Because they want to have psychic powers. And why would anyone want psychic powers? If the examples given in this book are anything to go by, to make sure your wife isn't cheating on you. I rec
#127 The Decline of the West (Vol. II - Chapters I-III) - Oswald Spengler w/ Gabe 'Faustian Extraordinaire' Sinclair
I (Jack) am joined by Gabe of Tooky's Mag to talk about the first three chapters of Spengler's best book: The Decline of the West, volume II. This will hopefully be a semi-regular series where we talk about a few chapters of this book in-depth. Prepare for levels of autism never seen before or since the German Conservative Revolution.Apologies for some choppiness with the audio--my microp
#126 Welcome to the Desert of the Real - Slavoj Žižek w/ Stephen G Adubato
Welcome to the Desert of the Real (2002) is Slavoj Žižek talking about 9/11 from a Lacanian, Hegelian, Ljubljana-slobber-in-a-stained-Lenin-T-shirt perspective. For this episode, the wonderful Stephen G Adubato of Cracks in Postmodernity helped me navigate Žižek's discursive 'It feels like I'm reading five books at once' style.Cracks in Postmodernity: https://cracksinpomo.substack.com/VER
Pale Townie/American Cats Are in a Big Country w/ Tom Will
Tom Will is a poet who has, among other things, written Pale Townie (Apocalypse Confidential, 2023), a 999-line poem which keeps the heroic couplet end rhymes from Pale Fire (Nabokov/Shade) intact, while transforming the story into something quite different, very Tom Will. He's also recently published American Cats Are in a Big Country (2024, Farthest Heaven), a collection of 73 poems, al
#125 The System's Neatest Trick - Theodore Kaczynski
Written in prison in 2002, The System's Neatest Trick is an essay from Kaczynski's Technological Slavery. In it, Kaczynski describes how 'the System' - more or less a technological society - redirects the popular frustration caused by its intrusions into human life, and its subversion of the power process. Where does it redirect this frustration? Into 'activist' causes, both as a pressure
Book Club from Heaven - Spare Us Yet w/ Lucas Smith
Spare Us Yet is a short-story collection from Lucas Smith, the Editor-in-chief of Bonfire Books. Each story is a new examination of Christian faith, human fallibility and our ways of finding meaning, and are all well worth your time.Bonfire Books: www.bonfirebooks.orgWiseblood Books: www.wisebloodbooks.com/Lucas' Substack: https://lucassmith.substack.com/Bonfire Books' Substack: https://b
#124 Sex and Character - Otto Weininger w/ Nina Power
Otto Weininger, at the age of 23, published Sex and Character, an idealist justification for not trusting the cosmic Woman, as well as an extended rumination on genius, sexual compatibility, Judaism, memory, ethics, and logic, all upon the background of his sexual fears. Shortly after the book's tepid critical reception, including accusations of plagiarism, Weininger rented a room in the
The Everlasting w/ Lewis Woolston
The Everlasting is an excellent short story collection by Australia's favourite son, Lewis Woolston. Many of these stories are inspired by his upbringing among Jehovah's Witnesses in Western Australia, addiction, working bad jobs to stave off poverty, and, despite everything, having the fortitude to find a place of stability. This is Lewis' second time on the show - if you want to hear mo
#123 Wake in Fright - Kenneth Cook w/Sini and Fresta from Getting Lit
Wake in Fright (1961) is an Australian novel about a pushover Sydney city boy's experiences in Broken Hill-inspired Bundanyabba. Here, he loses all of his money gambling, is constantly drunk, knife fights kangaroos, tries to shoot himself, and much more. To help me gush over this sinister and very funny book, I enlisted the help of Matthew Sini and Matthew Fresta of the lovely Getting Lit
#122 Irene Iddesleigh - Amanda McKittrick Ros
Financed by her husband as a 10th wedding anniversary present and published in 1897, Irene Iddesleigh is a romance story featuring extremely mercurial characters, bizarre pacing, and the most insane purple prose in existence. Really, The Eye of Argon reads like a physics textbook in comparison.VERY IMPORTANT INFORMATIONJack has published a novel called Tower!Amazon: https://www.amazon.com
#121 The Transmaxxing Manifesto - Vintologi
Transmaxxing is when natal males make themselves into women in order to live a materially better life. The Transmaxxing Manifesto lays out why men would (that is, should) want to become women, why an essential gender identity doesn't exist, how to 'girl-mode', why men are useless, and how to bring about a global authoritarian transmaxxing state in which 5% of the population are breeding m
On High at Red Tide w/ Gabriel Hart
On High at Red Tide is a rough, scruffy, lovely, unsettling, surf-noir novel written by Gabriel Hart, a novelist, poet, musician, and reporter (among many things). We got to talk about petrifying trazedone hallucinations, the parallels between alcoholism and possession, meth, why it's always wrong to kill someone, LA subcultures, and a whole lot more. Get On High at Red Tide: https://pigr
#120 The Interpretation of Dreams - Sigmund Freud
Published in 1899, The Interpretation of Dreams is one of Sigmund Freud's most significant works and, by extension, one of the most significant works in psychoanalysis, psychology, and the Western conception of the mind. In it, Freud begins with a collection of questions: what are dreams? What can we learn from them? In trying to answer, he ends up describing a structure of energetic flow
After Sunstone w/ Dustin Cole
Dustin Cole is a Canadian poet, novelist, essayist and short story writer, whose latest chapbook After Sunstone is a lovely examination of seeing, times and places. I actually ended up buying this book on the basis of its cover: it's a great edition, put out by Farthest Heaven. We talked about the link between poetry and time, poetry as a way to say the unsaid, why Dustin no longer writes
#119 Drone Disorientations: How 'Unmanned' Weapons Queer the Experience of Killing in War - Cara Daggett
This article, published in 2015 in the International Feminist Journal of Politics, offers a description of how the experience of piloting hunter-killer UAVs could 'queer' the battlefield and offer possible lines of flight out of heteronormative hierarchies. Poststructuralism meets mainlining hours of war footage on the internet (not really) (yes really).VERY IMPORTANT INFORMATIONJack has
The Sleepers w/ Matthew Gasda
Matthew Gasda is a director, novelist, playwright, essayist and Memphis horrorcore rapper, who has a novel, The Sleepers, coming out on the 6th of May, 2025. Tightly stage-managed and reading like a thickened play, The Sleepers explores millennial listlessness. This episode doubles as a New York soundscape, Matthew calling in from a cafe and crunching lemonade ice cubes tenderly into his
#118 The Eroticising of HIV: Viral Fantasies - Jaime García-Iglesias
Jaime García-Iglesias explores the phenomenon of bugchasing from a sociological perspective. And what is bugchasing? According to García-Iglesias, it is the eroticisation of HIV, expressed in many ways: getting pozzed by a detectable giftgiver during bareback sauna sex, masturbating to #poz and #BBBH ('bareback brotherhood') accounts on X, tracing your viral genealogy to Michel Foucault..
Agonist w/Udith Dematagoda
Udith Dematagoda is an academic, novelist, musician, editor at Hyperidean Press, and the reincarnated form of Ned Ludd, who, among other things, published a great novel called Agonist last year. An actually experimental experimental novel, Agonist is a rendering of posts and videos from around the internet into a strangely coherent whole. It's much funnier and more human than a depiction
#117 The Futurist Cook Book - Filippo Tomasso Marinetti and Luigi Colombo Fillìa
Published in 1932, the Futurist Cook Book is part comedy, part manifesto, and all cook book (kind of). Concerned as much with the extra-gustatory as the gustatory aspects of dining, this cook book offers a Futurist, anti-passeist approach to meals, one that embraces the Futurist principles of speed, violence and contempt for women. Most importantly, it identifies and denounces the primary
Book Club from Heaven - Echolalia Review w/ Jasper Ceylon
We've broken our usual upload schedule for a very special Book Club from Heaven episode. Why? Because Echolalia Review, by Jasper Ceylon, is so painfully funny. Jasper has performed an elaborate poetic hoax: over roughly two years, he wrote a series of poems, 47 of which were published in 30 different poetry journals. The thing is, these poems were written to be as ridiculous as possible,
Book Club from Heaven - God Is a Killer w/ Max Thrax
Max Thrax, managing editor of Apocalypse Confidential and 3rd-century Roman emperor, has written a book called God Is a Killer. An extremely fast-paced noir crime novel, it's great fun to read. Among other things, we talked genre fiction, the differences between noir and hardboiled, JG Ballard, independent publishing, and more.Buy God Is a Killer (it's very, very good): https://www.amazon
#116 Solenoid - Mircea Cărtărescu w/ Alexandru Constantin
Solenoid is a novel by Romanian novelist, essayist and poet Mircea Cărtărescu. A bizarre work of alternate-timeline autobiography, Solenoid is the diary of M.C., and details his attempts to escape from his life through dream magic, hypercube contemplation, scabies-mite transfiguration, solenoid levitation, tuberculosis recuperation, and much, much more. It's a truly dizzying, high-dimensi
Book Club from Heaven - The Raft w/ Phil Rot
The Raft is an extremely funny micronovel by Phil Rot, Philip Roth's ghost-operated online nom de plume. You (yes, you, the one reading right now) should buy and read it.Buy The Raft on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DQ5PV8BXPhil's Book RecommendationsThe Amazonian Uteroboscus - BL OvermanBehead all Satans - NMN-DRThe Call of Horror series - Frank GardnerKeller Memento: 25 Years of D
#115 Trump: Modern Shaman: Understanding His Mastery of Influence and Enchantment - Leo Van
Ed returns for an episode! Leo Van is an engineer-turned-shaman who knows some of Ed and my (Jack's) friends. In this book, published shortly before the 2024 American Presidential election, Van analyses Trump from the perspective of Amazonian shamanism, describing him as an unwitting 'brujo rojo', a practitioner of both black and white magic.I was initially reticent to cover a book that f
Book Club from Heaven - Remembering the Dead w/ Lewis Woolston
Lewis Woolston is a cryptid (Australian) living in Facebookistan (South Australia) who has written two lovely collections of short stories, Remembering the Dead and Other Stories and The Last Free Man and Other Stories. This episode, we talked about Remembering the Dead, regret, ageing, loss, family, NA, and more. Read his books, they're great.Buy Remembering the Dead from Truth Serum Pre
#114 Democracy: The God That Failed - Hans-Hermann Hoppe w/ Gabe Sinclair
Hans-Herman Hoppe is a German-born economist of the Austrian School, an anarcho-capitalist, professor emeritus of economics at the University of Nevada and, as the title of this book would suggest, not a democracy enjoyer.Considered a seminal work by, among others, NRx luminaries such as Mencious Moldbug and Nick Land, Democracy: The God That Failed offers a praxeological justification fo
Book Club from Heaven - Incurable Graphomania w/ Anna Krivolapova
Incurable Graphomania is a collection of bleakly funny short stories by Anna Krivalopova (not Anna Khachyan). We got to talk about Russia, being talked to by telecommunication towers, cat food, grindcore, and much more, before she had to make a sudden and mysterious exit--intriguing, elusive, maintaining frame.You should buy Incurable Graphomania: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CCW2HGMXAnna
#113 Fiat Food - Matthew Lysiak
Without sound money, governments can expand the supply of cuckbucks (fiat currency) willy-nilly. In Fiat Food (2023), Lysiak details how monetary expansion has led to the American 'fiat food' diet of vegetable-based, food-adjacent slop. And how do we escape from the clutches of fiat food? With Bitcoin and red meat.Shout out to orangepill luminary Saifedean Ammous' publishing house The Sai
Book Club from Heaven - Slacker Genesis/Mixtape Hyperborea w/ Adem Luz Rienspects
Adem is an author and audio documentarian (I guess?) whose work is characterised by, above all, a bracing honesty. Mixtape Hyperborea (2023) is a novel about high school, and Slacker Genesis is an audio collage (for lack of a better term) about relationships, faith, hypocrisy, friendship, failure and forgiveness. Both works are well worth checking out.Mixtape Hyperborea: https://www.amazo
#112 The Power of the Pussy: Get What You Want From Men: Love, Respect, Commitment and More! - Kara King
Men won't commit and women don't need to accept this. Why? They have the power of the pussy. Relationship books for women are a whole lot less gross than the ones for men, but also much less funny.VERY IMPORTANT INFORMATIONJack has published a novel called Tower!Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Tower-Jack-BC-ebook/dp/B0CM5P9N9M/ref=monarch_sidesheetThe first nine chapters of Tower are avail
Book Club from Heaven - Dragon Day/The Black Album w/ Matt Pegas
Matt Pegas is an author, podcaster and soon-to-be publisher. We talked about his books Dragon Day and The Black Album, about order from chaos, about being and becoming, about Alexander Dugin, about Ernst Junger, about the occult, about the importance of ritual, and much more.Matt's Books:Dragon Day: https://www.amazon.com/Dragon-Day-Matthew-Pegas-ebook/dp/B0967PF1JFThe Black Album: https:
#111 Erowid.org
Erowid.org is the Internet's most comprehensive and fun encyclopaedia of recreational drugs. If you aren't ordering research chemicals from a shady online Russian pharmacy and using them to commune with tree demons at a bush doof, then you aren't really living.VERY IMPORTANT INFORMATIONJack has published a novel called Tower!Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Tower-Jack-BC-ebook/dp/B0CM5P9N9M
2024 Review
We look back on 2024. NB: during the Patreon shoutouts, I can't remember if I gave a shoutout to Robert/Fake Gamer Boy. Shout out to Robert! Also shout out to Trent, our grouchiest OG.We're going to be taking a break for a few weeks, new episodes again from mid-January 2025.VERY IMPORTANT INFORMATIONJack has published a novel called Tower!Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Tower-Jack-BC-ebook
#110 The Concept of the Political - Carl Schmitt w/ Dr Jon Wittrock
Carl Schmitt was a German legal philosopher who is probably most famous for joining the Nazi Party in 1933. He's also extremely influential in legal and political philosophy, and only growing more so, on both the illiberal left and right. He remains one of the most interesting critics of liberalism, and we were lucky enough to have Dr Jon Wittrock of the University of Malmö join us for th
Book Club from Heaven - House of Sleep w/ Brad Kelly
Many of you probably know Brad Kelly as one half of the Art of Darkness podcast. Here, we talk about his 'psy-fi' novel 'House of Sleep', as well as tarot, the spookiness of literary communication, psychedelics, outsider art, and much more. I had a great time talking to Brad, and hope he comes on again soon.Brad's RecommendationsGod’s Dog - Andrew EdwardsIncurable Graphomania - Anna Krivo
#109 The Sigma Male Bible - Bud Watson
In the socio-sexual hierarchy of men (sorry, males), the sigma is a lone wolf, capable of being a dominant alpha, but choosing a life of mystery, solitude and 'tasteful rebellion'. The Sigma Male Bible (2021) teaches readers how to become this rarest of males.VERY IMPORTANT INFORMATIONJack has published a novel called Tower!Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Tower-Jack-BC-ebook/dp/B0CM5P9N9M/
Book Club from Heaven - Quarterlives w/ Cairo Smith
Cairo Smith is an author and filmmaker. We got to talk about his latest short story collection Quarterlives, the literary new wave, didacticism in fiction, and much more. Quarterlives: https://www.amazon.com/Quarterlives-Cairo-Smith-ebook/dp/B0DJPZDH91?ref_=ast_author_dpFuturist Letters: https://www.futuristletters.com/X: @cairoasmithCairo's Website: https://cairosmith.com/Cairo's Recomme
#108 Pro-Ana w/ Katherine Dee
For this episode, we were joined by the reigning Empress of Internet Anthropology, Katherine Dee!Pro-ana, or pro-anorexia, is a largely-online subculture based on the experience of anorexia nervosa. At times promoting this illness, at times offering a refuge for those struggling with eating disorders, the broader eating disorder subcultures offer us a way to explore our relationship with
