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 and multiple layers of meaning, etc, etc, ect. It's good!
We spent a lot of time talking about how Audrey comes up with these characters, and how her return to faith influenced the writing of Utter Goodness, both consciously and unconsciously.
This will be the last episode this year. We'll start releasing things again early 2026.
Get Utter Goodness here: https://farthestheaven.com/products/utter-goodness
Audrey's website: https://audreymorganlee.com/
Audrey on X: @tinndfishmonger
Audrey on Substack: https://jawndidion.substack.com/
We mentioned Anna Krivolapova's work here, and you (you!) should also check it out: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CCW2HGMX
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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 franchise is the perfect artefact of the coming Slavic soul, the endless flat plane, the erased z-axis of aiming, Siberian Mayhem...
Gabe on X: @ezrarunnaround
Tooky's Mag on X: @tookysmag
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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 supernatural?' and 'What is your conception of the soul?' He's a real trooper and actually answered these, as well as a whole lot more.
Get Crowbar: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0FZ93M9GB
Get King of Dogs: https://www.amazon.com/dp/0578608081/
Andy on X: @goldengoatguild
Audio version of King of Dogs: @canonicxyz on X
Andy's Recommendations
Colter Wall: https://www.colterwall.com/
Brad Kelly: https://www.bradkellyesque.com/
Miles Hollingworth: https://www.amazon.com/stores/Miles-Hollingworth/author/B004APNGBQ
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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? Either way, you should listen to me and Stephen G Adubato talk about this book!
Cracks in Postmodernity (very, very highly recommended!): https://cracksinpomo.substack.com/
Stephen on X: @stephengadubato
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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 published winners so far, and I really encourage everyone to check them out.
Farthest Heaven's website: www.farthestheaven.com
Farthest Heaven on Patreon: www.patreon.com/c/FarthestHeaven
Farthest Heaven on X: @FarthestHeaven
Farthest Heaven on Substack: www.substack.com/@farthestheaven
Bill's Recommendations
Bruiser: www.bruisermag.com
Apocalypse Confidential: www.apocalypse-confidential.com
Postpop Lit: www.postpoplit.com
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£, 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 defences of irony and performative nihilism, nuisance streamers, /r9k/, Cioran, Camus, how Aaron is being sued, and a lot more.
Buy £, flesh: https://mcbussypublishing.org/product/flesh-by-aaron-barry-print-pre-order/
Buy Femoid: https://www.amazon.com/dp/1738633942
Get Femoid for free: https://mega.nz/file/WAl2EZRY#2JpCKfMBWli-vCS5c0iSvXXZCd4O3q9tAAiNOtiSgdM
Echolalia Review (written by Aaron under the pseudonym 'Jasper Ceylon'): https://www.amazon.com/Echolalia-Review-Anti-Poetry-Jasper-Ceylon/dp/1738633926
Aaron on Substack: @jasperceylon
Aaron writing about getting sued: https://substack.com/home/post/p-176802154
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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: https://www.amazon.com/dp/1738633926
Poundflesh: https://mcbussypublishing.org/product/flesh-by-aaron-barry-print-pre-order/
Femoid: https://www.amazon.com/dp/1738633942
Jasper's Substack: https://jasperceylon.substack.com/
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www.thebookclubfromhell.com
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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 their approaches to poetry, how they manage to make experimentation feel so effortless, how one might write poems as songs versus films, the Russian language, and a whole lot more.
Find Officeparks here: https://farthestheaven.com/products/officeparks
Noam on X: @poetryaccnt1518
Noam on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/hesslerart_official/
Farthest Heaven: https://farthestheaven.com
Farthest Heaven on X:@FarthestHeaven
Farthest Heaven Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/FarthestHeaven
Noam's Recommendations
Wallace Barker - https://wallacebarker.com/
David C Porter - https://davidcporter.net/
Hayden Church - https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0BLR73Z3J
Dustin Cole - https://farthestheaven.com/products/after-sunstone
Tom Will - https://many.bio/thomaswill
Ben Lerner - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Lerner
Audrey Lee - https://audreymorganlee.com/
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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 between slapstick descriptions of triple OG cockroaches and depictions of rape and child abuse.
Helping me out was Slater, aka Simpulacra! Stay tuned for his upcoming novel Becoming.
Slater's Substack: https://simpulacra.substack.com/
Quan Millz on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/stores/author/B073R9WZJS
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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 whole lot more.
Get Like You Have a Choice: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0FLTHP5MV
Ivan's Substack: https://minorobservations.substack.com/
Ivan's Recommendations
Justin Isis - https://neopasseism.substack.com/
Lewis Woolston -https://bequempublishing.com/authors/authors-w-z/lewis-woolston/
Gary Shipley - Stab Frenzy - https://www.apocalypse-party.com/stabfrenzy.html
Audrey Szasz - https://audreyszasz.com/
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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.
Helping me decode this strange book is Brad Kelly of the Method and Madness podcast!
Brad's website: https://www.bradkellyesque.com/
Method and Madness: https://www.methodandmadnesspodcast.com/
Brad on X: @bradkelly
Brad on Substack: https://bradkellyesque.substack.com/
Brad's novel: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08SLCHQCS/
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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 of teenage lesbianism. CP Serret has range.
Early on in recording (within the first five or six minutes), Serret's microphone started acting up. I ended up cutting a few minutes out, because the audio quality was so grating. Apologies to those desperate for every possible minute of Serret.
Get CP Serret's books here: tempestandgayle.com
CP Serret on X: @LeProjetSerret
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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: @ezrarunnaround
Tooky's Mag on X: @tookysmag
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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
Jack on X: @Thingol2006
Jack on Substack: thingol.substack.com
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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 reckon about half the suggested uses of the dimension-bending and physics-breaking psychic powers described in this book are to spy on your wife. How can one achieve the psychic reserves to perform these feats? By conceptualising juicy steaks. Beautiful stuff.
Joining me on my quest to fire photons at 109 times the speed of light out of my brain horns (retinas) was powerful warlock Capitalisimo of the Tooky's Mag Sidebar podcast, Library of Mass Destruction, and Drive Time Movie Night.
Capitalisimo on X: @thecapitalisimo
Tooky's Mag Sidebar: https://www.youtube.com/@tookysmag/podcasts
Drive Time Movie Night: https://rumble.com/c/c-6180416/livestreams
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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 microphone kept disconnecting. There's also no video for this episode, because my internet was misbehaving and kept cutting out. This is what it feels like to live in the senile winter of Civilisation.
Gabe on X: @ezrarunnaround
Tooky's Mag: @tookysmag
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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/
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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, all of which are very much worth your time and love.
We got to talk about the process of writing Pale Townie, why limericks are so funny, prose poems, clunk, Tom's future projects, and a lot more.
Tom tends to pace while talking. I decided to keep these parts and leave them unedited, because the full Tom Will experience involves periods of muffled audio and sudden clear exclamations. To deny these parts would be to deny the fullness of communication.
Find Tom's books here: https://many.bio/thomaswill
Tom's Recommendations
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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-release valve on popular discontent, and as a way to expedite the social changes required for an expansion of technological slavery.
Read The System's Neatest Trick here: https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/ted-kaczynski-the-system-s-neatest-trick
VERY IMPORTANT INFORMATION
Jack has published a novel called Tower!
Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Tower-Jack-BC-ebook/dp/B0CM5P9N9M/ref=monarch_sidesheet
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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.org
Wiseblood Books: www.wisebloodbooks.com/
Lucas' Substack: https://lucassmith.substack.com/
Bonfire Books' Substack: https://bonfirebooks.substack.com/
Lucas' Recommendations
Caleb Caudell: https://middleamericanliterature.substack.com/
Jamie Grant: https://publishing.hardiegrant.com/en-au/authors/jamie-grant
Joshua Wren: www.joshuahren.com/#/
Stephen Edgar: www.stephenedgar.com.au/newsite/
Philip Traylen: https://oldoldoldoldnew.substack.com/
VERY IMPORTANT INFORMATION
Jack has published a novel called Tower!
Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Tower-Jack-BC-ebook/dp/B0CM5P9N9M/ref=monarch_sidesheet
The first nine chapters of Tower are available for free here: jackbc.substack.com
Our Patreon: www.patreon.com/TheBookClubfromHell
Jack's Substack: jackbc.substack.com
Levi's website: www.levioutloud.com
www.thebookclubfromhell.com
Join our Discord (the best place to interact with us): discord.gg/ZMtDJ9Hscr
Watch us on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0n7r1ZTpsUw5exoYxb4aKA/featured
X: @bookclubhell666
Jack on X: @supersquat1
Levi on X: @optimismlevi