Author of SQUIMBOP CONDITION, BERLIN WALL, DODGE CITY, ANGEL HOUSE, PORNME, NEW HOUSE, NEW FLESH, & DRIFTER. Co-hosts @wakeislandpod, Column in @SouthwestReview
NYC & Northampton
Joined February 2013
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Huge thanks to @hank_jost for this incredibly thoughtful and eloquent essay on THE BERLIN WALL and its relation to simulations, kitsch, reality, Sorokin, Cronenberg, and much, much more! @WhiskeyTitBooks @vol1brooklyn @1111Press @altcurrent @blakebutler
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Now you’re down there, beneath it all. Underneath the strewn fields, in a warm, comforting darkness where, for as long as you remain, there will be no disorder. You explore what could be your new home, as if you’d achieved all you’d set out to already.
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Now free to all. The great @raviddice joined me to talk perhaps the strangest novel of the Vietnam war. MEDITATIONS IN GREEN: David’s personal experience studying w/ Wright, the consciousness of the jungle, the chaos of total information, and much, much more. Link below.
thinking of re-watching Hereditary tonite, which I haven't seen since it came out... should I do that or watch something new, and if so, what?
Blue Light Lounge: The Portal (more thoughts on our recent talk with Jarett Kobek) @WakeIslandPod
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Join me for a conversation with composer David Yazbek about my new book "Hotel & Farm" at the Strand bookstore, 828 Broadway, NYC on Friday, Oct. 16, 2026 at 7:30pm. For tickets: strandbooks.com/ben-katchor-…
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This might have slipped under the radar last week. Check it out! We chat in-depth about this. underrated, psychedelic Vietnam novel
Now free to all. The great @raviddice joined me to talk perhaps the strangest novel of the Vietnam war. MEDITATIONS IN GREEN: David’s personal experience studying w/ Wright, the consciousness of the jungle, the chaos of total information, and much, much more. Link below.
Now free to all. The great @raviddice joined me to talk perhaps the strangest novel of the Vietnam war. MEDITATIONS IN GREEN: David’s personal experience studying w/ Wright, the consciousness of the jungle, the chaos of total information, and much, much more. Link below.
Thrilled to welcome the one and only Jarett Kobek back to WAKE ISLAND for another wild talk! @WakeIslandPod @vol1brooklyn @beyondzeropod @ElsbyCharlene @SemiotextePress @chriszeischegg
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More new stuff - Here is Sam Farhi speaking about THE SAPSUCKERS. Listen here ore anywhere you get your podcasts open.spotify.com/episode/1m2…
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we have a list of recommended books by Andrew Farkas !
the theme is works of fiction that use cinema as part of their style or subject matter
featuring books by David Leo Rice @raviddice & Brandi Homan
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As if retreating into a facsimile of the privacy of their wedding night, Face and Star Simpson pull freak masks embroidered with daisies and carnations over their heads and make a gleeful performance of zipping the mouth- and eye-holes shut before escorting him out of the archive
Nevertheless, when the exchange is finished, he sees the track helpers tossing bodies into the brush for the dingoes or hyenas that slink out of the taupe background with bright red hanging tongues to receive them.
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Early access starts now! The great @raviddice joined me to talk perhaps the strangest novel of the Vietnam war. MEDITATIONS IN GREEN: David’s personal experience studying w/ Wright, the consciousness of the jungle, the chaos of total information, and much, much more. Links below.
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Dark history, violent death made Elkin levels of funny, structured in a delightfully chaotic triple-layer narrative sandwich. Felt like I hit the jackpot whenever I opened the book, so clear a case it makes that we are living in a literary golden age but too benighted to know it.
ALT The Delegation by Avner Landes