Melee - Jack Cuthbertson on AUDIENCE CAPTURE
From the unique imagination of Jack Cuthbertson (host of Book Club from Hell (Jack)) comes Audience Capture, a brand new novel (out soon from Bonfire Books):
Atlas and the Shruggers. Four members, billions of fans. A band so popular as to be world government. The best music, the best storylines. Full spectrum audio-visual domination. Why would you pay attention to anything else?
But nothing lasts forever. The very forces that brought the Shruggers to prominence now turn on their former playthings.
Subversion in the form of phantom radio stations. Conspiring radar arrays. Visual prions. Rival bands. Breeding programs. Tasmanian separatists. Sold-out mass casualty attacks. Like clockwork, ERA repeats again. Separated, hunted, reformatted, our four band members must go through the painful transition from object to real, actual human beings.
Remember: there are no coincidences, only coordinations.
We also get into Jack’s writing process, “All Art is Political,” the Ausnaissance, and some of the recent works covered in his one-of-a-kind podcast.
MELEE - E Rathke on BROKEN KATANA
The prolific E Rathke joined me to talk the far-out world of his forthcoming BROKEN KATANA omnibus, why preoccupation with the culture war makes you a loser, Broken River zines, and much much more.
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MELEE - Mallory Smart on BOOK OF DAVID
Mallory Smart, writer and impresario of independent literature, joins me for a discussion about the Midwest, parking lot hangs, David Koresh, the history of Maudlin House, the current horror boom, and much more.