We are thrilled to be joined by Stephen Markley for a wide-ranging (and spoiler-filled) conversation about The Deluge! We discuss the many forms the novel takes, the process of research and working on the novel, writing, reading, and existing amid climate catastrophe, prophesy, social movements (and fiction about social movements), violence and humor, the need […]

On our own long way home, we consider how and why Matt’s authorial voice turns over the end of the novel to its main character, Kate, in order to consider the climate fight and our reserves of energy, one’s legacy, the practical and metaphysical questions, and the Truth. We also play (?) the super fun […]

It was the brink of annihilation, it was the brink of resurrection. Matt Markley — err, Stanton Farooki — is freaking me out with these psychological reconstructions of individual terror, multiplicitous emergence, and system change with climate change. He tells stories fabricated from complex systems modeling, taking an interest in people, exploring, spinning yarns, being […]

Tony fights a potentially futile battle for the future, for his kids and grandkids, for peckerwoods and surly fucks and maybe for us all, while refusing to fight his own cancer; all his dreams, memories of Gail, and creeping oceanic feeling flood over him and flood over us. AKA: In this chapter, the reader is […]

A vortex has opened you don’t understand what’s happening. You know love, you take leaps of faith, you can be easily squashed, you negotiate. You see the burning eyes of angels. You witness people reveal themselves to you over and over and over, and somehow you manage to reveal yourself to the world. Does that […]

Ash records for posterity this time, the democratic conflagration mirrored by the burning forest, with a lifetime of observation converted to persuasion, but the question remains, can we do it? Are we unvarnished-ly recording for posterity? Are we the podcast to unf*ck the world? — — — Our theme music is from “I Can’t See […]

Jesus, Kate, take the wheel. Jackie’s willingness to believe in the meaning of wealth falters, as she reckons with her selves and with the foil she’s been for Kate. She cracks the fourth wall as the ugly bifurcations of this chapter drive Jackie to new horizons, making discoveries about change, climate change, and self-definition, all […]

Hop on a party bus to St. Pete and press play on our bonus episode on the 2012 masterpiece Spring Breakers written and directed by Harmony Korine. Sex, the male gaze, violence, whiteness, hilarity, Faith and temptation, truly inspired editing and sound and lighting choices, film literacy, we cover (or is it bare?) it all. […]

Behold our gruesome and just judgments. The Deluge is our Roman Empire. — — — Our theme music is from “I Can’t See the Milky Way Anymore” by Alex Rudnick. We heartily encourage you to check out Alex’s music.

Shane loses sight, maybe, of her position on violence; coming back to Kate, or maybe they were always together; she joins the ranks of the many vanished, but not in the way 6 Degrees imagined. Where do you go in a world on fire? P.S. F*** off, nothing left to steal. P.P.S. Who is telling […]