This week we decided to do a book club about Jordan Castro’s novel Muscle Man. We were joined by our friend Chris Gayomali, a writer who edits at SSENSE and also writes the excellent Substack HEAVIES which you have to read or else you’re not allowed to listen to Macho Pod. Muscle Man is a very funny book about a college professor who’s distracted all day because he’s really hungry and imagining himself on a manosphere podcast who then goes to the gym and does a woke denunciation. We talk about working out, dude-style autofiction, Tao Lin curing his own autism, etc. etc. etc.

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