• Crowbar w/ Andrew Edwards
    Dec 1 2025

    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

    VERY IMPORTANT INFORMATION

    Contact: jack.bcfh@gmail.com

    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


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


    Watch us on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0n7r1ZTpsUw5exoYxb4aKA/featured


    X: @bookclubhell666


    Jack on X: @supersquat1


    Levi on X: @optimismlevi


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    1 hr and 31 mins
  • #133 The Regime of the Brother: After the Patriarchy - Juliet Flower MacCannell w/ Stephen G Adubato
    Nov 23 2025

    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

    VERY IMPORTANT INFORMATION

    Contact: jack.bcfh@gmail.com

    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


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


    Watch us on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0n7r1ZTpsUw5exoYxb4aKA/featured


    X: @bookclubhell666


    Jack on X: @supersquat1


    Levi on X: @optimismlevi


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    1 hr and 33 mins
  • Farthest Heaven w/ Bill Ballard
    Nov 18 2025

    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

    VERY IMPORTANT INFORMATION

    Contact: jack.bcfh@gmail.com

    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


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


    Watch us on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0n7r1ZTpsUw5exoYxb4aKA/featured


    X: @bookclubhell666


    Jack on X: @supersquat1


    Levi on X: @optimismlevi


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    1 hr and 47 mins
  • £, flesh and Femoid w/ Aaron Barry
    Nov 9 2025

    £, 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

    VERY IMPORTANT INFORMATION

    Contact: jack.bcfh@gmail.com

    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


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


    Watch us on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0n7r1ZTpsUw5exoYxb4aKA/featured


    X: @bookclubhell666


    Jack on X: @supersquat1


    Levi on X: @optimismlevi



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    2 hrs and 27 mins
  • #132 Pretty Boys Are Poisonous - Megan Fox w/ Aaron Barry aka Jasper Ceylon
    Nov 2 2025

    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/

    VERY IMPORTANT INFORMATION
    Jack has published a novel!
    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: https://jackbc.substack.com/

    Levi's website: www.levioutloud.com

    www.thebookclubfromhell.com

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

    X: @bookclubhell666

    Jack on X: @supersquat1

    Levi on X: @optimismlevi


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    2 hrs and 12 mins
  • Officeparks w/ Noam Hessler
    Oct 27 2025

    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/

    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): https://discord.gg/nbRkVeztEQ


    Watch us on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0n7r1ZTpsUw5exoYxb4aKA/featured


    X: @bookclubhell666


    Jack on X: @supersquat1


    Levi on X: @optimismlevi

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    1 hr and 27 mins
  • #131 This Hoe Got Roaches in Her Crib - Quan Millz w/ Slater aka Simpulacra
    Oct 19 2025

    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

    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): https://discord.gg/nbRkVeztEQ


    Watch us on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0n7r1ZTpsUw5exoYxb4aKA/featured


    X: @bookclubhell666


    Jack on X: @supersquat1


    Levi on X: @optimismlevi

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    1 hr and 22 mins
  • Like You Have a Choice w/ Ivan Niccolai, aka Notes from the Periphery
    Oct 12 2025

    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/

    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): https://discord.gg/nbRkVeztEQ


    Watch us on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0n7r1ZTpsUw5exoYxb4aKA/featured


    X: @bookclubhell666


    Jack on X: @supersquat1


    Levi on X: @optimismlevi

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    1 hr and 37 mins