Book Club From Hell

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 threat t...

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, then sub...

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.com/dp/...

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-dimensional nove...

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/B0DQ5PV8BX Phil's Book Recommendations The Amazonian Uteroboscus - BL Overman Behead all Satans - NMN-DR The Call of Horror series - Frank Gardner Keller Memento: 25 Years of Davi...

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 felt too...

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 Press, if...

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 for why al...

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/B0CCW2HGMX Anna on Twi...

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 Saif House...

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.amazon.com/dp...

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 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...

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/B0967PF1JF The Black Album: https://www....

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 INFORMATION Jack has published a novel called Tower ! Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Tower-Jack-BC-ebook/dp/B0CM5P9N9M/ref=...

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 INFORMATION Jack has published a novel called Tower ! Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Tower-Jack-BC-ebook/dp/...

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 this episod...

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 Recommendations God’s Dog - Andrew Edwards Incurable Graphomania - Anna Krivolapova...

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 INFORMATION Jack has published a novel called Tower ! Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Tower-Jack-BC-ebook/dp/B0CM5P9N9M/ref=...

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_dp Futurist Letters: https://www.futuristletters.com/ X: @cairoasmith Cairo's Website: https://cairosmith.com/ Cairo's Recommendat...

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 food, co...

Postliberal Book Reviews writes, surprisingly, book reviews from a Catholic, post-Vatican II, postliberal perspective. Being less flippant, he writes very thoughtful reviews of both fictional and non-fictional works, and everyone here should check out his Substack page. Travis' Recommendations The Neighbour - Caleb Caudell Nutcrankr - Dan Baltic Incel - ARX-Han Lost Causes - Richard Nichols VERY I...

Moon people, published in 2008, is, in many ways, the sci-fi equivalent of The Eye of Argon. Bizarre plotting, even more bizarre characters, and, most importantly, it's oddly charming. Buy Moon People https://www.amazon.com/Moon-People-Dale-M-Courtney/dp/1436372135 VERY IMPORTANT INFORMATION Jack has published a novel called Tower ! Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Tower-Jack-BC-ebook/dp/B0CM5P9N9M/...

David Herod's Improvidence is an 'overnight novel', a brisk novella combining adventure, a dash of weird fiction, and some truly beautiful descriptions of a post-collapse West Virginian and Ohioan landscape. We talked about Improvidence , didactic fiction, fictional relationships and more. Improvidence: https://www.amazon.com/Improvidence-David-Herod/dp/B0CWCF7J13 Tooky's Mag: https://substack.com...

David McGowan's Programmed to Kill (2004) is a seminal work of conspiratorial thinking, well-regarded among members of the online commentariat on parapolitics, as well among conspiracy theory aficionados generally. Paedophile rings, satanic cults, the Phoenix Program, mind control, psychiatric induction of alternate personalities for the purposes of mind-control assassination, the creation by the...

Caleb Caudell is an American author who has recently released 'Hardly Working'. Described as 'semi-auto fiction', Hardly Working uses Caudell's experiences working in the service industry, dating, writing, and living in terrible apartments to explore our deracinated moment. Caleb is an outrageously erudite man, and I had a lot of fun hearing him talk about medieval theology, Dostoyevsky, short sto...