Wake Island Podcast
1) Chaos and Disenchantment: Berlin Wall book launch w/ David Leo Rice & B.R. Yeager
In this season-ending episode of Wake Island, guest co-host BR Yeager—author of Negative Space and Burn You the Fuck Alive—joins us for a hall of mirrors conversation. Together, we get into David Leo ...Show More
Chaos and Disenchantment: Berlin Wall book launch w/ David Leo Rice & B.R. Yeager
1:36:27 | Sep 17th, 2024
2) Home Haunts with Dennis Cooper
Daddy’s back. ROOM TEMPERATURE, haunted houses, video games, childhood memories, publishing with an indie press, supportive teachers, Flunker, and more Dennis Cooper's Blog. FLUNKER, six fictions, 124...Show More
3) Grave Desire with Steve Finbow
In this episode with Steve Finbow, we tease out the point at which a body ceases to be considered a person and chart the development of trauma over time, tracing the fine line between disgust and desi...Show More
4) Guilty Creatures with Mikita Brottman
From the critically acclaimed author dubbed “one of today’s finest practitioners of nonfiction” (The New York Times Book Review), a breathless true crime tale of sex, religion, and murder in the deep ...Show More
5) The Sleep of Reason with Matt Lee
Fear. Disgust. Pity. The cripple evokes our basest human emotions—as does the monster. Told in lyric fragments, The Backwards Hand traces Matt Lee’s experience living in the United States for more th...Show More
6) CHRIS ZEISCHEGG: ON ART AND UNBECOMING
Christopher Zeischegg is a writer and filmmaker who spent eight years working in the adult industry as performer, Danny Wylde. He is the author of The Magician, Body to Job, The Wolves that Live in Sk...Show More
7) The World Below with David Peak
Last year, David Peak released "The World Below," a midwestern gothic tale intertwining two rival families whose animosity sparks amidst a ritualistic occult murder mystery, amplified by heroic doses ...Show More
8) Three Nights at the Skylark Motel with Logan Berry
Every city has that motel. The motel on the edge of town, the mythical place you dare not go. Logan Berry goes there. In this episode, we calibrate a magical framework for understanding the world thr...Show More
9) Exaltations in the Dead of Night with Jason Bahbak Mohaghegh Part II
“The omnicidal will to constitute an infinite decision implies one of two things: either to kill the unfinished, or to let the unfinished kill.” In the second part of our conversation with Jason Bahb...Show More
10) Exaltations in the Dead of Night with Jason Bahbak Mohaghegh Part I
"Every storyteller harbours a secret desire to be the one who tells the last story, just as every maniac wishes to inscribe the last fateful madness on earth." In this episode with Jason Bahbak Moha...Show More