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/

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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/

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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

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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

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Jack has published a novel called Tower!

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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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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

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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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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

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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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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

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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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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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