DEATH // SENTENCE

A dreaded triumvirate episode looms on the horizon as Gareth, Langdon, and Eden dive into the brutal, incisive, and beautifully written "The Doloriad" by Missouri Williams! Under the guise of a post-apocalypse novel, Williams uses this brilliant book to critique hegemonic epistemology, explore topics like veganism and ableism, and above all deliver a host of dreadful, delightful, mysterious, and essential characters. Music by the incandescent Smoulder https://smoulder.bandcamp.com/album/violent-creed-of-vengeance And the efflorescent Lunar Chamber https://listen.20buckspin.com/album/shambhallic-vibrations

This time around, Eden is joined by Abraham Josephine “Josie” Riesman, NYT-bestselling authoress of True Believer: The Rise and Fall of Stan Lee, Ringmaster: Vince McMahon and the Unmaking of America, and much else besides. The two dive into Philip K. Dick's legacy, investigating his positions on Judaism, his religious exegesis, what we can learn from his writings about the current (and sorry) state of American culture, our perceptions of our world around us, transness, and more! Seriously, more.

Black metal? Isn't that the genre for nazi edgelords with all the Gene Simmons makeup? Well that's where you're wrong kiddo: Bill Peel has written the definitive guide to how it's surprisngly leftist. Music by Darkthrone and Altar of Plagues.

Langdon and Eden return once again to the vaulted halls of the genius-brain that was Brian Catling. This time around they cover Earwig, a cold and weird story filled with devilish revenge, body horror, killing your abusers, and cats. But first, the two take time to drive a holy stake through the hearts of fools who are trying to do transphobia, but from the left, as they discuss gender, materialism, and social relations. Music played: Trespasser - https://trespasserxvi.bandcamp.com/track/hol-kaustos-or-the-justification-and-affirmation-of-hierarchical-order-by-the-symbolism-of-immolations Crown Lands - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DW9ufgf0ihI

Eden reads one page from Tolkien's Akallabêth (that's right, only one) and discusses themes of memory, myth, Platonism, religion, storytelling, Tolkien's Legendarium , politics, and more on this solo episode! Music played: vvilderness - Nemere, from the beautiful Path: https://vvilderness.bandcamp.com/track/nemere Artwork is Tar-Miriel by Tad Nasmith, please don't sue us the painting is very beautiful.

In this house... we read Free Indirect: The Novel in a Postfictional Age by Timothy Bewes with Jon Greenaway aka also known as TheLitCritGuy. What can a novel do? How can it 'think'? What does this all have to do with posting and low-budget Canadian analog horror? Music by BIG|BRAVE

We finally did it. We tackled 'the Ulysses of Science Fiction', all 600 pages of Samuel R. Delaney's magnum opus Dhalgren. We talk about race, sex, Deleuze, Doctor Who, and the bad compromises queer writers had to make in the seventies. Music by GEL

What will be your job in the Leftist Commune? M. E O'Brien and Eman Abdelhadi have written the book of the evergreen Twitter question. and I'm only kind of joking. Everything for Everyone is a fictional oral history of post-revolutionary New York, taking the reader through how life could work without money, the government or even the family. Music by Fvnerals and Cremation Lily.

Dr. Eleanor Janega (also of the We're Not So Different podcast) joins us to discuss her book The Once and Future Sex: Going Medieval On Women's Roles in Society. We discuss how Plato and Hippocrates ruined things for everyone, what the average person gets wrong about the Medieval period and what our boy Satan has to do with all of this. Music by Yokai & Kekht Ararkh and Grave Babies

Eden returns with another solo episode, this time diving into the New Weird inflected fantasy of K.J. Bishop's "The Etched City"! God-creators stalk the night, crocodiles prowl the river, gunslingers duel in the streets, and all the while the world unravels before our eyes. Just another day in Ashamoil! Music played: Agriculture - The Circle Chant https://agriculturemusic.bandcamp.com/track/the-circle-chant-3