Agitator

Keeping film brain out of literature. Anti-adaptation. Not all content is art. How to stop the Joker. ODDITY. PULSE. Books about cultivation and dragons. Update/teaser on publishing Adam Lehrer's next novel. What makes great art. Shop talk. Fences and parking lots. Who will save you from drowning? More on our writing: brokenriverbooks.com

The whitest Agitators you know (JDO and Eddy Rathke) bring you this episode in Kelby's absence. Talking: the pros and cons of ****, Tsutomu Nihei's Tower Dungeon , the Chinese genres Wuxia and Xianxia, Wuxiaworld,  a reminder to leave the writing community, book clubs with HVAC techs, cultivation novels, what non-writers are looking for from writing, and more. Subscribe to Eddy's Substack: radical...

Kelby and JDO discuss Takashi Miike's Lumberjack the Monster , Jeremy Saulnier's Rebel Ridge , and Tim Burton's Beetlejuice Beetlejuice  + the return of oil paintings as cover art, masculine rites of passage, grifters vs doers, being red-pilled vs just being normal, assassination attempts, and plenty of craft, marketing, and publishing talk. We're so back. brokenriverbooks.com

Troy James Weaver is the author of Witchita Stories , Temporal , Visions , Marigold,   and   Selected Stories . He lives in Wichita, Kansas with his wife and dogs. More at troyjamesweaver.com

Support this show and find more at patreon.com/agitator   Follow Art of Darkness: artofdarkpod.com Kevin Kautzman is a playwright living in St. Paul, Minnesota. His award-winning plays have appeared around the UK and US and are available in print at Broadway Play Publishing . His dark social media comedy MODERATION was adapted for an online release and can be found at  moderationplay.com . A past...

Noah Rymer is the author of the upcoming Denouement (Anxiety Press) and editor-in-chief of Pere Ube. On this episode, we discuss organic vs curated diversity, constructive criticism, the Muse, using music to write atmosphere, and more. Buy denouement HERE Check out Pere Ube: https://pereube.univer.se/ Some of Noah's stories: "Dead Los Angeles" https://expatpress.com/dead-los-angeles-noah-rymer/ "E...

Fella - host of The Third Place and everyone's favorite Hard R Gamer - returns after way too long to discuss with Kelby the ways in which stories can be told through video games, how video games are like books, Metal Gear Solid  (primarily 4), Hideo Kojima and his body curiosity, JRPGs, Red Dead Redemption 2  as the ultimate love/hate game, The Last of Us, adaptations, the next evolution of games...

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Jack Mason is the host of The Perfume Nationalist, a continuing radio soap opera in which art and culture, high and low, are discussed through the historical lens of fragrance. On this episode, we discuss embracing fragrance as an art form and consciously engaging with scent. We also talk the pitfalls of minimalist literature, which fragrances we're most vibing with now, the importance of being ea...

patreon.com/agitator Buy BRAZOS from Belle Point Press: https://bellepointpress.com/products/brazos Keep up with Justin Carter: https://juscarts.com/ Discussed:  Justin and Kelby's experiences and feelings of Brazoria County, Texas; poetry vs prose; "Not Meth"; escaping academia; sports journalism; fatherhood; devil possession and harvesting grave dirt from abandoned church cemeteries; Pokemon rap...

David Simmons and Kelby Losack are chopping it up about LIVES OF THE MONSTER DOGS by Kirsten Bakis . What separates humans from other animals? What is our purpose here? What is "alternative literature"? You read any good books lately? All this and more, on this episode of Agitator. Learn more about the Broken River crew: brokenriverbooks.com Follow David on X @WholeTimeDavid and IG @toppdogghill

On book tours, US vs UK publishing, Larry Correia vs The Great Gatsby , editing, bred from experience vs bred from institution, and how to measure artistic value. Buy Deliver Me  in the US: https://www.unnamedpress.com/books/book?title=Deliver+Me And in the UK: https://www.vervebooks.co.uk/bookpage.php?&isbn=9780857308610 Follow Elle on IG  and X @saderotica Subscribe to Fuck, Marry, Kill for...

Grant Wamack is the Wonderland award nominated author of MELANCHOLY’S FINEST,   BLACK GYPSIES,  and GOD’S LEFTOVERS . He pulls tarot cards, practices jiu jitsu, and smokes weed in Los Angeles. Follow his come-up at https://grantwamack.substack.com/ [[This episode is brought to you by Experience. Computer , slow radio about high tech. A podcast about aphantasia, creativity, and the imagination.]] W...

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Our boy JDO has resurrected to share the sauce on how he’s found the ultimate cure for writer’s block. We also give a syllabic breakdown on what’s coming up for Agitator: more craft talk, getting into the nuts and bolts of publishing and printing and marketing books. We also talk about the value of a niche audience and the dangers of networking with writers. And then we talk Trump and corrosive id...

Jared Klickstein  was born in Boston, Massachusetts in 1989 to heroin-addicted parents. He spent his teenage years outside of Oakland, California after being adopted by his aunt and uncle. He attended UC Santa Cruz where he got addicted to heroin himself, dropped out, and spent nearly ten years chronically homeless and addicted around the country. After a notorious run on Skid Row in Los Angeles a...

Charlene Elsby is a philosophy doctor and former professor whose books include  Hexis, Affect, Psychros, Agyny,   Musos,   Letters to Jenny Just After She Died, Bedlam, The Devil Thinks I'm Pretty, and  Violent Faculties . Her essays have appeared in Bustle Books and the LA Review of Books. https://charleneelsby.com/ Using her torture porn/mad scientist philosophical horror novel Violent Faculties...

Ryan Simón  is the one-man factory behind the avant-garde Americana sleaze/arts and culture mag American Vulgaria.  We talk about his inspiration for starting the magazine, what direction it's heading in now, and we get into the nuts and bolts of printing and designing magazines and books that stand on their own as gorgeous works of art. More on AMERICAN VULGARIA : https://americanvulgaria.com/ Su...

This is a further discussion on Park Chan-wook's The Sympathizer . Sort of. Topics discussed: the problem with art that sits on the fence, Downey Jr hijacking every project he's tied to, the watered-down osmosis of style, Jordan Peele and the state of horror, Mad Max, being ethnically ambiguous, how and why we love America, the death of Hollywood, in defense of nepotism, the devolution of rap, inv...

Writer, podcaster, and strategist (and musician, and inventor of solarpunk) Jay Springett  joins Kelby for this AGITATOR Z FINALE. Everything changes beyond this point, and what a way to end an era. We're talking Izumi Suzuki's incredible bizarro short story collection Hit Parade of Tears . Keep up with Jay: https://www.thejaymo.net/ Buy Hit Parade of Tears : https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/boo...

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At long last, the full uncensored/unabridged story of the life, philosophy, and vision of the ultimate rock 'n roll duo BOTCHED CHADIFICATION.  BUY THE CD: PUMP METAL | Botched Chadification ( bandcamp.com ) SUBSCRIBE TO AGITATOR: Agitator | The Only Freestyle Storytelling Podcast Starring Two Mystic Juggalo Weebs | Patreon GET BOTCHED This is an early release episode for patrons only.

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Jacob Everett , founder and editor-in-chief of the low life/high strangeness lit mag and indie press Apocalypse Confidential , joins Kelby to discuss the no-budget 1983 murder drone film Blood Beat . This episode's a deep dive into the inner workings of successfully running an independent press with some glimpses into the future of both APCON and Broken River. READ APOCALYPSE CONFIDENTIAL: apocaly...