Book Club From Hell

Apr 06 2025 132 ep. 128 mins 48
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The weirdest book club on the planet.

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Book Club from Heaven - Echolalia Review w/ Jasper Ceylon

Apr 06 2025 171 mins  
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 po

Book Club from Heaven - God Is a Killer w/ Max Thrax

Mar 30 2025 85 mins  
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

#116 Solenoid - Mircea Cărtărescu w/ Alexandru Constantin

Mar 23 2025 130 mins  
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, hig

Book Club from Heaven - The Raft w/ Phil Rot

Mar 16 2025 105 mins  
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 Yea

#115 Trump: Modern Shaman: Understanding His Mastery of Influence and Enchantment - Leo Van

Mar 09 2025 78 mins  
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

Book Club from Heaven - Remembering the Dead w/ Lewis Woolston

Mar 02 2025 81 mins  
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 Se

#114 Democracy: The God That Failed - Hans-Hermann Hoppe w/ Gabe Sinclair

Feb 23 2025 236 mins  
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 justifica

Book Club from Heaven - Incurable Graphomania w/ Anna Krivolapova

Feb 16 2025 146 mins  
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/B0CCW2HG

#113 Fiat Food - Matthew Lysiak

Feb 09 2025 305 mins  
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

Book Club from Heaven - Slacker Genesis/Mixtape Hyperborea w/ Adem Luz Rienspects

Feb 02 2025 114 mins  
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://ww