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 Recommendations
Arbogast: https://www.amazon.com/stores/author/B09C7WR25F?ingress=0&visitId=d9c3d12b-6586-44fb-b1a0-2fcf0b4f0e9a&ref_=sr_ntt_srch_lnk_3, https://substack.com/@arbogast1
Slater Ross: https://authorslater.weebly.com/
Sid Winnarchist: https://www.futuristletters.com/p/one-twenty-third

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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

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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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, control, body image and more.

Katherine Dee

X: @default_friend

Substack: https://default.blog/

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): discord.gg/ZMtDJ9Hscr

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Jack on X: @supersquat1

Levi on X: @optimismlevi

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 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): discord.gg/ZMtDJ9Hscr

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Levi on X: @optimismlevi

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/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): discord.gg/ZMtDJ9Hscr

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Jack on X: @supersquat1

Levi on X: @optimismlevi

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/@tookys
Tooky's Sidebar Podcast: https://www.youtube.com/@tookysmag

David's Recommendations
Mixtape Hyperborea - Adem Luz Rienspects - https://www.amazon.com/Mixtape-Hyperborea-Adem-Luz-Rienspects/dp/B0BW32CX2G

Incel - ARX Han - https://www.amazon.com/INCEL-Novel-ARX-Han/dp/B0C9SNQK9C

Nutcrankr - Dan Baltic - https://www.amazon.com/NUTCRANKR-Dan-Baltic/dp/195189779X

Unreal Press - https://unrealpress.substack.com/

Shagduk - JB Jackson - https://www.amazon.com/Shagduk-re-dordica-Book-One/dp/1956453067

My Confession - Samuel Chamberlain - https://www.amazon.com/My-Confession-Recollections-Samuel-Chamberlain/dp/0876111568

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): discord.gg/ZMtDJ9Hscr

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Levi on X: @optimismlevi

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 FBI of the concept of 'serial killer' to terrorise the American public; there's a lot going on here.

For this episode, we were joined by David from Tooky's Mag and the Tooky's Side Bar Book Club podcast. He was a wonderful guest, and I encourage everyone to check out the projects he's part of.

VERY IMPORTANT INFORMATION
Tooky's Mag: https://tookys.substack.com/
David's book, Improvidence: https://www.amazon.com/Improvidence-David-Herod/dp/B0CWCF7J13

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): discord.gg/ZMtDJ9Hscr

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

X: @bookclubhell666

Jack on X: @supersquat1

Levi on X: @optimismlevi

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 stories, the concept of the secular, and much more.

Caleb's Books:

Hardly Working: https://www.amazon.com/Hardly-Working-Semi-Auto-Caleb-Caudell/dp/0645776874

Novelty: https://www.amazon.com/Novelty-other-stories-Caleb-Caudell/dp/0645776815

The Neighbour: https://www.amazon.com/Neighbor-Caleb-Caudell/dp/0645066427

Caleb's Substack: https://middleamericanliterature.substack.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): discord.gg/ZMtDJ9Hscr

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Jack on X: @supersquat1

Levi on X: @optimismlevi

Vladimir Nabokov finished writing Lolita in 1953. It took him, an established author, until 1955 to have it published. Why? It's a book about a middle-aged man who has a sexual relationship with a twelve-year-old girl. Publishers were uncomfortable, etc. The thing is, it's also a phenomenally well-written book.

VERY IMPORTANT INFORMATION

Jack has published a novel!

Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Tower-Jack-BC-ebook/dp/B0CM5P9N9M/ref=monarch_sidesheet

Website: thebookclubfromhell.com

Patreon: patreon.com/TheBookClubfromHell

Jack's website: www.jackbc.me

Jack's Substack: jackbc.substack.com

Levi's website: levimk.com

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

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Levi on X: @levimk_com