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Evil: A Study of Lost Techniques with Jason Bahbak Mohaghegh
Wake Island is back. It’s been a long hiatus, a lot of life changes and transitions... the usual upheavals that seem to have hit everyone over the last year or so.We’re kicking things off with past…
CRY OF THE CONQUERED
Written by David Leo Rice and Paul KThis is the final entry in our Substack project, which set out to explore the energy, sickness, and imagery of 2025.If you enjoyed this entry, feel free to go back…
Derek McCormack Christmas Special (rebroadcast)
Derek McCormack is a small town pervert and the author of The Well-Dressed Wound and Castle F*ggot, both published by Semiotext(e). His most recent book is Judy Blame's Obituary. This collection…
S2E11 Chaos and Disenchantment: Berlin Wall book launch w/ David Leo Rice & B.R. Yeager
In this season-ending episode of Wake Island, guest co-host BR Yeager—author of Negative Space and Burn You the Fuck Alive—joins us for a hall of mirrors conversation. Together, we get into David Leo…
S2E10 Home Haunts with Dennis Cooper
Daddy’s back. ROOM TEMPERATURE, haunted houses, video games, childhood memories, publishing with an indie press, supportive teachers, Flunker, and more Dennis Cooper's Blog. FLUNKER, six fictions,…
S2E9 Grave Desire with Steve Finbow
In this episode with Steve Finbow, we tease out the point at which a body ceases to be considered a person and chart the development of trauma over time, tracing the fine line between disgust and…
S2E8 Guilty Creatures with Mikita Brottman
From the critically acclaimed author dubbed “one of today’s finest practitioners of nonfiction” (The New York Times Book Review), a breathless true crime tale of sex, religion, and murder in the deep…
S2E7 The Sleep of Reason with Matt Lee
Fear. Disgust. Pity. The cripple evokes our basest human emotions—as does the monster. Told in lyric fragments, The Backwards Hand traces Matt Lee’s experience living in the United States for more…
CHRIS ZEISCHEGG: ON ART AND UNBECOMING
Christopher Zeischegg is a writer and filmmaker who spent eight years working in the adult industry as performer, Danny Wylde. He is the author of The Magician, Body to Job, The Wolves that Live in…
The World Below with David Peak
Last year, David Peak released "The World Below," a midwestern gothic tale intertwining two rival families whose animosity sparks amidst a ritualistic occult murder mystery, amplified by heroic doses…
S2E4 Three Nights at the Skylark Motel with Logan Berry
Every city has that motel. The motel on the edge of town, the mythical place you dare not go. Logan Berry goes there. In this episode, we calibrate a magical framework for understanding the world…
S2E3 Exaltations in the Dead of Night with Jason Bahbak Mohaghegh Part II
“The omnicidal will to constitute an infinite decision implies one of two things: either to kill the unfinished, or to let the unfinished kill.” In the second part of our conversation with Jason…
S2E2 Exaltations in the Dead of Night with Jason Bahbak Mohaghegh Part I
"Every storyteller harbours a secret desire to be the one who tells the last story, just as every maniac wishes to inscribe the last fateful madness on earth." In this episode with Jason Bahbak…
S3E1 Jack Riccobono - Amityville: An Origin Story
Enter the Amity-verse with Wake Island. In this episode we get into channeling dark energy from the media vortex surrounding America’s most infamous haunted house in Amityville, Long Island. In…
S2E18 How to Find Zodiac with Jarett Kobek
Jarett Kobek is a Turkish-American writer living in California. His novel I HATE THE INTERNET was an international bestseller, translated into nine languages, and published in twelve countries. His…
S2E17 Illuminating the New American Right with James Pogue
James Pogue is a journalist and essayist. His first book is called Chosen Country: A Rebellion in the West. James recently wrote an article for Vanity Fair called Inside the New Right and it’s not…
S2E15 On the Cusp of Dissolution with Lindsay Lerman
Lindsay Lerman is a writer and translator. Her new novel, WHAT ARE YOU (CLASH Books) is out now. Her first book I'm From Nowhere was published in 2019. Her essays, short stories, and poetry have been…
S2E14 Counteragent Adam Lehrer on Addiction and Crypto-Transgression
Adam Lehrer is a writer and an artist living in New York. He is the founder and co-host of the System of Systems podcast, and the founder and curator of the Safety Propaganda collaborative media…
S2E12 Stephen Marche on The Next Civil War: Dispatches from the American Future
Will American fantasies of purifying violence dissolve upon contact with reality or will the illusion break into civil war? Find out on this eps w/ Stephen Marche author of The Next Civil War:…
S2E11 Dylan Mulvin on Proxies: The Cultural Work of Standing In
We speak to Dr Dylan Mulvin, Assistant Professor in LSE Department of Media and Communications, about his book Proxies: The Cultural Work of Standing In, which examines the ways in which proxies…
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