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Gldpny aka Erik joins me for part two of the two-part series on classic military science fiction. This episode is on Joe Haldeman's The Forever War, which is a "novel in response" to Heinlein's Starship Troopers, but also very much its own thin
Part 2 of our read-along of John Crowley's Little, Big. John joins me once again, and we have special guest star Yeerk (from the recent Mr Palomar episode) on the episode as well.Don't be a bitch and read this book about fairies with us!For ext
This is a cross post from Rare Candy's Gain of Fiction series featuring yours truly as well as former guest Eddy Rathke, hosted by Glen and Psi from RC. We look at Samuel R. Delany's classic and very wild science fiction experimental novel, Dha
Gldpny aka Erik joins me once more for a two-part series on classic military science fiction. First up is Robert Heinlein's Starship Troopers. The next episode, released in a couple of weeks, will be on Joe Haldeman's The Forever War.And over o
Ryan Simón, editor-in-chief of American Vulgaria magazine, joins me once more to talk about three films by the occultist homosexual filmmaker, Kenneth Anger.We talk Fireworks (1947), Scorpio Rising (1963), and Invocation of My Demon Brother (19
Talking about a recent online discussion about the Starship Troopers film and how people who are into the death of the author concept tend to invoke the author when expedient, as well as how the death of the author concept is used and abused th
Former guest John joins me for the first of a six-part, monthly slow read of John Crowley's Little, Big.This quirky, beautiful novel is sizeable. So over the next six months, we will be meeting and discussing each section of the book. Read alon
This episode, I'm joined by the wonderful Yeerk to chat about Italo Calvino's final novel, Mr Palomar.We talk about Yeerk's battles against people who believe in "misinformation" and "AI art", humanism, encountering the world as it is and descr
Australian crime writer Iain Ryan joins me live from a bar in Brunswick East to talk about his new book of Gold Coast noir, The Strip, as well as his major inspiration, James Ellroy's L.A. Confidential.We talk about the crime novel genre, hardb
On this episode, writer and podcaster J David Osborne returns to talk about several short stories by the late science fiction grandmaster, Ursula K Le Guin.We talk about cultural relativism, anthropology, how Ursula's father's work with a lost
Three-time guest of the pod and "Australia's Ottessa Moshfegh" Paul Dalla Rosa joins me at my house for bento takeout while we discuss Natsuo Kirino's crime novel, Out.In this book, a woman murders her husband and her workmates at a bento facto
Recording on location from the smoke-wreathed vista at Siglo in Melbourne, I am joined by writer and researcher Nicolas Hausdorf to discuss German writer Ernst Jünger's post-apocalyptic novel, Eumeswil. We talk about the novel as a metaphor for
Hoodrat noir/cyberpunk writer, Agitator podcast host, and former guest on the show, Kelby Losack, joins me to talk about his collection God is Wearing Black.A lot of writing talk, Texas, writing places, class and the publishing industry, honest
Surrounded by vinyl records and cassette tapes, I joined editor of the Rango Tango zine, and former GLP guest Matthew Fresta (in his lounge room!) to talk about the very literary songwriting of British band, The Kinks.With some selections from
Poet Stephen Zerance joins me to talk about Greek poet C.P. Cavafy and four greco-roman films (Sebastiane, Caligula, Alexander, and 300).We talk about homoeroticism in these kinds of films as well as in Cavafy's verse.Follow Stephen onTwitter/X
Jayson Young, writer and co-host of the Mangaroos podcast, joins me to talk about David Mitchell's novel about stories, life, death, perception, rebirth, and reincarnation: Cloud Atlas. We also talk about the 2012 film version by Tom Twyker and
On this episode, Steff joins me to talk about R.F. Kuang's Yellowface, which we've decided is YA posing as literary fiction (probably the marketers fault).Follow Steff on Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/moonandmouthFollow Steff on Instagram: ht
To round out the Sally Rooney trilogy, I am joined by Sydney-based writer, editor, producer Sheila Ngoc Pham to discuss Sal pal's latest novel, Beautiful World Where Are You?The theme for this episode is "generations" where we will be talking a
Writer E Rathke joins me for the second part of the Sally Rooney series, where we look at Sal's second novel, Normal People.We chat about the internet and writing, commercial fiction, chick lit, Trojan-horsing fucked up shit into normal looking
Zach returns to kick off the Sally Rooney trilogy over the next few weeks. We will be looking at her books in chronological order with a different guest each week, starting with Conversations with Friends.The theme for this episode is "emotiona
This episode, one of my faves and host of the Unpopular podcast, Jacques Peterson, returns to mansplain the Britney Spears memoir "The Woman in Me" (because I'm not going to read it). How did Spears go from a pop sensation to an online meme, da
Ryan Simón, editor-in-chief of American Vulgaria magazine returns to the show and I made him read some Aussie literature: Colleen McCullough's Tim, a sexy and heartwarming 1974 novel about a middle-aged spinster falling for her mentally challen
Cody LaDuke from the Cents of Life podcast joins me for a Halloween special. We're talking ghost stories, specifically Henry James' classic, The Turn of the Screw, the 1961 film version The Innocents, and the 2001 film The Others starring Nicol
Jack Mason, host of The Perfume Nationalist podcast joins me to talk about Jacqueline Susann's 1966 novel of showbiz, sex, and substance abuse, Valley of the Dolls, as well as the 1967 film adaptation directed by Mark Robson and starring Sharon
Part 4 of The Book of the New Sun series, looking at Volume IV: The Citadel of the Autarch.We have finally reached the end of our Gene Wolfe series, and we take a look back at the journey, a lot of writing talk, the psychological depth of Sever
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