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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The first nine chapters of Tower are available for free here: jackbc.substack.com

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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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The first nine chapters of Tower are available for free here: jackbc.substack.com

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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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The first nine chapters of Tower are available for free here: jackbc.substack.com

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Jack's Substack: jackbc.substack.com

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www.thebookclubfromhell.com

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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

www.bonfirebooks.org.

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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Jack has published a novel called Tower!

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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

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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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Jack has published a novel called Tower!

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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

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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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The first nine chapters of Tower are available for free here: jackbc.substack.com

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Levi's website: www.levioutloud.com

www.thebookclubfromhell.com

Join our Discord (the best place to interact with us): https://discord.gg/nbRkVeztEQ

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