Book Club From Hell

Levi MK and Jack BC
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The weirdest book club on the planet.

  1. 12/22/2025

    Utter Goodness w/ Audrey Lee

    Utter Goodness is an upcoming short story collection written by Audrey Lee and published by Farthest Heaven. Its thirteen stories are lovely character studies, various faces of that peculiarly American form of cultural maximalism, and each rendered in very lithe prose. There's a kinda extemporising quality to the writing here, if one could extemporise in full paragraphs with foreshadowing and multiple layers of meaning, etc, etc, ect. It's good! We spent a lot of time talking about how Audrey comes up with these characters, and how her return to faith influenced the writing of Utter Goodness, both consciously and unconsciously. This will be the last episode this year. We'll start releasing things again early 2026. Get Utter Goodness here: https://farthestheaven.com/products/utter-goodnessAudrey's website: https://audreymorganlee.com/Audrey on X: @tinndfishmonger Audrey on Substack: https://jawndidion.substack.com/ We mentioned Anna Krivolapova's work here, and you (you!) should also check it out: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CCW2HGMX VERY IMPORTANT INFORMATION Contact: jack.bcfh@gmail.com Jack has published a novel called Tower! Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Tower-Jack-BC-ebook/dp/B0CM5P9N9M/ref=monarch_sidesheet The first nine chapters of Tower are available for free here: jackbc.substack.com Our Patreon: www.patreon.com/TheBookClubfromHell Jack's Substack: jackbc.substack.com Levi's website: www.levioutloud.com Join our Discord (the best place to interact with us): discord.gg/ZMtDJ9Hscr Watch us on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0n7r1ZTpsUw5exoYxb4aKA/featured X: @bookclubhell666 Jack on X: @supersquat1 Levi on X: @optimismlevi

    1h 15m

  2. 12/07/2025

    #134 - The Decline of the West (Vol. II - Chapters VII-IX) - Oswald Spengler w/ Gabe 'Skyrim Pseudomorphosis' Sinclair

    Chapters VIII, VIII and IX, titled 'Problems of the Arabian Culture', are some of the most fun in all of Spengler's work. In order to properly illuminate Spenglerian concepts like pseudomorphosis, the Pagan Church, the second religiousness, Islam as Magian Civilisation, and more, Gabe and I did what we do best: talk about gaming in Spenglerian terms. Turns out, Croteam's Serious Sam franchise is the perfect artefact of the coming Slavic soul, the endless flat plane, the erased z-axis of aiming, Siberian Mayhem... Gabe on X: @ezrarunnaround Tooky's Mag on X: @tookysmag VERY IMPORTANT INFORMATION Contact: jack.bcfh@gmail.com Jack has published a novel called Tower! Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Tower-Jack-BC-ebook/dp/B0CM5P9N9M/ref=monarch_sidesheet The first nine chapters of Tower are available for free here: jackbc.substack.com Our Patreon: www.patreon.com/TheBookClubfromHell Jack's Substack: jackbc.substack.com Levi's website: www.levioutloud.com Join our Discord (the best place to interact with us): https://discord.gg/nbRkVeztEQ Watch us on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0n7r1ZTpsUw5exoYxb4aKA/featured X: @bookclubhell666 Jack on X: @supersquat1 Levi on X: @optimismlevi

    2h 26m

  3. 12/01/2025

    Crowbar w/ Andrew Edwards

    Andrew Edwards is the author of the novels King of Dogs (2019) and Crowbar (2025), both of which are well worth reading. King of Dogs is a tense action novel, while Crowbar feels like reading Programmed to Kill and watching thirty conspiracy thrillers at the same time during a speed comedown. It's a lot. For this episode, I softballed Andy with simple questions like 'What is the supernatural?' and 'What is your conception of the soul?' He's a real trooper and actually answered these, as well as a whole lot more. Get Crowbar: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0FZ93M9GBGet King of Dogs: https://www.amazon.com/dp/0578608081/ Andy on X: @goldengoatguild Audio version of King of Dogs: canonic.xyz Andy's RecommendationsColter Wall: https://www.colterwall.com/Brad Kelly: https://www.bradkellyesque.com/Miles Hollingworth: https://www.amazon.com/stores/Miles-Hollingworth/author/B004APNGBQ VERY IMPORTANT INFORMATION Contact: jack.bcfh@gmail.com Jack has published a novel called Tower! Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Tower-Jack-BC-ebook/dp/B0CM5P9N9M/ref=monarch_sidesheet The first nine chapters of Tower are available for free here: jackbc.substack.com Our Patreon: www.patreon.com/TheBookClubfromHell Jack's Substack: jackbc.substack.com Levi's website: www.levioutloud.com Join our Discord (the best place to interact with us): https://discord.gg/nbRkVeztEQ Watch us on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0n7r1ZTpsUw5exoYxb4aKA/featured X: @bookclubhell666 Jack on X: @supersquat1 Levi on X: @optimismlevi

    1h 31m

  4. 11/23/2025

    #133 The Regime of the Brother: After the Patriarchy - Juliet Flower MacCannell w/ Stephen G Adubato

    The Regime of the Brother is a book of psychoanalytic feminist theory (particularly leaning on Lacan), explaining why we no longer live in an Oedipal patriarchy, but rather live in a 'sham-Oedipus' regime of the brother. Neo-totemism, the primal hoard, the narcissistic ego as a consequence of failed symbolic castration and, consequently, no entry into the symbolic order. Make sense? Either way, you should listen to me and Stephen G Adubato talk about this book! Cracks in Postmodernity (very, very highly recommended!): https://cracksinpomo.substack.com/ Stephen on X: @stephengadubatoVERY IMPORTANT INFORMATION Contact: jack.bcfh@gmail.com Jack has published a novel called Tower! Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Tower-Jack-BC-ebook/dp/B0CM5P9N9M/ref=monarch_sidesheet The first nine chapters of Tower are available for free here: jackbc.substack.com Our Patreon: www.patreon.com/TheBookClubfromHell Jack's Substack: jackbc.substack.com Levi's website: www.levioutloud.com Join our Discord (the best place to interact with us): https://discord.gg/nbRkVeztEQ Watch us on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0n7r1ZTpsUw5exoYxb4aKA/featured X: @bookclubhell666 Jack on X: @supersquat1 Levi on X: @optimismlevi

    1h 33m

  5. 11/18/2025

    Farthest Heaven w/ Bill Ballard

    Farthest Heaven is publishing some of the most exciting poetry and (soon!) fiction around today. I got to talk to the First Consul (an in-house naming convention) of Farthest Heaven, Bill Ballard, about book design, finding great authors, his approach to editing, what it means to run a small press, and a whole lot more. I was really looking forward to this one, Farthest Heaven has only published winners so far, and I really encourage everyone to check them out. Farthest Heaven's website: www.farthestheaven.comFarthest Heaven on Patreon: www.patreon.com/c/FarthestHeavenFarthest Heaven on X: @FarthestHeavenFarthest Heaven on Substack: www.substack.com/@farthestheaven Bill's RecommendationsBruiser: www.bruisermag.com Apocalypse Confidential: www.apocalypse-confidential.comPostpop Lit: www.postpoplit.com VERY IMPORTANT INFORMATION Contact: jack.bcfh@gmail.com Jack has published a novel called Tower! Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Tower-Jack-BC-ebook/dp/B0CM5P9N9M/ref=monarch_sidesheet The first nine chapters of Tower are available for free here: jackbc.substack.com Our Patreon: www.patreon.com/TheBookClubfromHell Jack's Substack: jackbc.substack.com Levi's website: www.levioutloud.com Join our Discord (the best place to interact with us): https://discord.gg/nbRkVeztEQ Watch us on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0n7r1ZTpsUw5exoYxb4aKA/featured X: @bookclubhell666 Jack on X: @supersquat1 Levi on X: @optimismlevi

    1h 47m

  6. 11/09/2025

    £, flesh and Femoid w/ Aaron Barry

    £, flesh and Femoid are a novella and novel, respectively, written by Aaron Barry and published by McBussy Publishing. Both star poorly-adjusted female leads suffering terminal brainrot, and both are written in a dense, internet-inflected style. In line with both books' preoccupations, this episode we talked about how to write the internet (and what that might even mean), the childish defences of irony and performative nihilism, nuisance streamers, /r9k/, Cioran, Camus, how Aaron is being sued, and a lot more. Buy £, flesh: https://mcbussypublishing.org/product/flesh-by-aaron-barry-print-pre-order/ Buy Femoid: https://www.amazon.com/dp/1738633942 Get Femoid for free: https://mega.nz/file/WAl2EZRY#2JpCKfMBWli-vCS5c0iSvXXZCd4O3q9tAAiNOtiSgdMEcholalia Review (written by Aaron under the pseudonym 'Jasper Ceylon'): https://www.amazon.com/Echolalia-Review-Anti-Poetry-Jasper-Ceylon/dp/1738633926Aaron on Substack: @jasperceylonAaron writing about getting sued: https://substack.com/home/post/p-176802154 VERY IMPORTANT INFORMATION Contact: jack.bcfh@gmail.com Jack has published a novel called Tower! Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Tower-Jack-BC-ebook/dp/B0CM5P9N9M/ref=monarch_sidesheet The first nine chapters of Tower are available for free here: jackbc.substack.com Our Patreon: www.patreon.com/TheBookClubfromHell Jack's Substack: jackbc.substack.com Levi's website: www.levioutloud.com Join our Discord (the best place to interact with us): https://discord.gg/nbRkVeztEQ Watch us on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0n7r1ZTpsUw5exoYxb4aKA/featured X: @bookclubhell666 Jack on X: @supersquat1 Levi on X: @optimismlevi

    2h 27m

  7. 11/02/2025

    #132 Pretty Boys Are Poisonous - Megan Fox w/ Aaron Barry aka Jasper Ceylon

    Pretty Boys Are Poisonous (2023) is a poetry collection written by actress Megan Fox. Mostly focusing on her troubled relationship with professional machine-gun Colson Baker, the poems are surprisingly adolescent for a (currently) 39-year-old mother of four. To assist me in parsing these poems, Aaron Barry, aka Jasper Ceylon, joined me for this episode. Aaron/Jasper's work: Echolalia Review: https://www.amazon.com/dp/1738633926 Poundflesh: https://mcbussypublishing.org/product/flesh-by-aaron-barry-print-pre-order/ Femoid: https://www.amazon.com/dp/1738633942 Jasper's Substack: https://jasperceylon.substack.com/VERY IMPORTANT INFORMATIONJack has published a novel! Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Tower-Jack-BC-ebook/dp/B0CM5P9N9M/ref=monarch_sidesheet - The first nine chapters of Tower are available for free here: jackbc.substack.com Our Patreon: www.patreon.com/TheBookClubfromHell Jack's substack: https://jackbc.substack.com/ Levi's website: www.levioutloud.com www.thebookclubfromhell.com Join our Discord (the best place to interact with us): https://discord.gg/nbRkVeztEQ X: @bookclubhell666 Jack on X: @supersquat1 Levi on X: @optimismlevi

    2h 12m

  8. 10/27/2025

    Officeparks w/ Noam Hessler

    Officeparks is a wonderful poetry collection from Noam Hessler, and yet another winner published by Farthest Heaven. Romantic, funny, and shot through with an easy, natural experimentation, Officeparks is a real treat. I'm trying hard not to be too effusive in my praise, in case people think I'm being disingenuous, but these poems really are that good. Anyway, Noam and I got to talk about their approaches to poetry, how they manage to make experimentation feel so effortless, how one might write poems as songs versus films, the Russian language, and a whole lot more.  Find Officeparks here: https://farthestheaven.com/products/officeparksNoam on X: @poetryaccnt1518Noam on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/hesslerart_official/ Farthest Heaven: https://farthestheaven.comFarthest Heaven on X:@FarthestHeavenFarthest Heaven Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/FarthestHeaven Noam's RecommendationsWallace Barker - https://wallacebarker.com/ David C Porter - https://davidcporter.net/ Hayden Church - https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0BLR73Z3J Dustin Cole - https://farthestheaven.com/products/after-sunstone Tom Will - https://many.bio/thomaswill Ben Lerner - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Lerner Audrey Lee - https://audreymorganlee.com/ VERY IMPORTANT INFORMATION Jack has published a novel called Tower! Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Tower-Jack-BC-ebook/dp/B0CM5P9N9M/ref=monarch_sidesheet The first nine chapters of Tower are available for free here: jackbc.substack.com Our Patreon: www.patreon.com/TheBookClubfromHell Jack's Substack: jackbc.substack.com Levi's website: www.levioutloud.com www.thebookclubfromhell.com Join our Discord (the best place to interact with us): https://discord.gg/nbRkVeztEQ Watch us on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0n7r1ZTpsUw5exoYxb4aKA/featured X: @bookclubhell666 Jack on X: @supersquat1 Levi on X: @optimismlevi

    1h 27m
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The weirdest book club on the planet.

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  • Creator
    Levi MK and Jack BC
  • Years Active
    2022 - 2025
  • Episodes
    163
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    © Jack BC and Levi MK
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