On Atta and Invocation of My Demon Brother

After hours at the Skyway

My cinematic education started pretty early. My mom introduced me to Humphrey Bogart films and my dad to the Marx Brothers and Elvira’s Movie Macabre all before I was a teenager. Later, I would attend...

By David Leo Rice

Podcast Episode · Wake Island · September 11 · 1h 28m

When one dystopia isn’t enough.

The name of Jakob would not stretch far enough to cover them both, and yet there was no other that either could use. Whether this doubled or halved the power the name carried with it was what remained...

The name of Jakob would not stretch far enough to cover them both, and yet there was no other that either could use. Whether this doubled or halved the power the name carried with it was what remained...

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David Leo Rice’s The Squimbop Condition is in many ways a culmination, a capstone on one phase of his career, and at the same time, a hint at which of the many forking paths he may travel going for…

David Leo Rice’s The Squimbop Condition is in many ways a culmination, a capstone on one phase of his career, and at the same time, a hint at which of the many forking paths he may travel going for…

David Leo Rice’s The Squimbop Condition is in many ways a culmination, a capstone on one phase of his career, and at the same time, a hint at which of the many forking paths he may travel going for…

The Word The entire process depends on the use and placement of specific key words. It is possible that the process can have begun many years prior to this moment in the present; that the concatena…

By David Leo Rice

Tommy Bruno spent his life in a tuxedo, selling popcorn.

The brilliant writer David Leo Rice joined me to talk Thomas Pynchon’s latest, and possibly last, novel SHADOW TICKET. Pynchonian Zones, the warp and weft of history, the end of the systems novel, a...

Matthew Specktor and author David Leo Rice discuss his book series, “A Room in Dodge City.”

David Leo Rice is the author of the novels Angel House, The New House, The Berlin Wall, and the Dodge City trilogy, as well as the story collections Drifter and The Squimbop Condition, out later this ...

Kitaro Nishida and the Subject-Object Collapse in David Leo Rice's "The Berlin Wall" and Michael Faber's "The Book of Strange New Things". Excerpt from "Apocalyptic Consciousness", a book-length philo...

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