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Nick from Tokyo (https://twitter.com/NickFromTokyo) joins us to discuss Sayaka Murata's 2018 novel, Convenience Store Woman, and Juzo Itami's 1996 film, Supermarket Woman.

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Poet and writer Andrew Ketcham joins us to talk about YA literature as well as the 2011 film starring Charlize Theron, Young Adult.

Read Andrew's latest poem here: https://www.hobartpulp.com/web_features/horse-girl

Matt has also started a substack. You can read the first essay here: https://impieties.substack.com/

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Weeaboo princess, drag icon, and enfant terrible podcaster Zach Langley Chi Chi returns to talk Bruce Wagner's novel of sex, death, and celebrity, Dead Stars, as well as David Cronenberg's 2014 film, Maps to the Stars.

Subscribe to Zach's podcast, I'm So Popular:  https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/im-so-popular/id1523827234

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Using the anonymous messaging app, NGL, we asked our listeners for questions. And boy did we get some! Everything from Reuben's PhD, plagiarism scandals, past guest hotness levels, and much more!

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Reuben and Rio speak with Rio's friend Liam about Australian writer Max Easton's The Magpie Wing.

Order here: https://giramondopublishing.com/books/the-magpie-wing/
 
...or anywhere you order your books.

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Returning guest Paul Dalla Rosa takes us on a tour around some of his favourite places to eat and drink while we talk about his new collection, An Exciting and Vivid Inner Life, out now from Allen and Unwin in Australia and Serpent's Tail in the UK. We also chat about many other things, and we revel in the fact that this is the first time all three of us have recorded together outside of Zoom!

Buy Paul's book here:

https://www.allenandunwin.com/browse/books/fiction/popular-fiction/An-Exciting-and-Vivid-Inner-Life-Paul-Dalla-Rosa-9781761066191

or here:

https://serpentstail.com/work/an-exciting-and-vivid-inner-life/

Read Paul's author interview series, Bad Artist Statements:

https://pauldallarosa.substack.com/

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Josh and Maddie from the amazing Evil Thespian podcast join us to discuss Oscar Wilde's one act play, Salome, and Wilde, the 1997 biopic directed by Brian Gilbert starring Stephen Fry and Jude Law.

Subscribe to Evil Thespian here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/evil-thespian/id1562330987.

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The wonderful Angela Nagle joins us to talk about Robert Hughes' fantastic study of modern art, The Shock of the New.

Subscribe to Angela's substack: https://angelanagle.substack.com/
Buy Angela's book, Kill All Normies: https://www.amazon.com/Kill-All-Normies-Culture-Alt-Right/dp/1785355430
 

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Gian from Twinkrev (RIP) joins Rio and Matt to talk about two Vegas movies: Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (Terry Gilliam 1998) and Showgirls (Paul Verhoeven, 1995).

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This week: Thomas Pynchon's The Crying of lot 49. Meaning, postmodernism, why Pynchon is like David Lynch (and Tolkien!) and more.

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