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David Leo Rice @raviddice.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Thrilled to welcome the one and only Jarett Kobek back to WAKE ISLAND for another wild talk! @specktor.bsky.social @wakeisland.bsky.social wakeisland.substack.com/p/zap-youre-...

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Zap, You’re Pregnant, That’s Witchcraft with Jarett Kobek

On Atta and Invocation of My Demon Brother

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ＰＡＵＬＫ | ＷＡＫＥＩＳＬＡＮＤ @wakeisland.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

PARADISE ALLEY: a chase through a predatory Interzone in Queens fueled by vaping, motion capture, Daizha Morgann's Octobooty, two hurricanes, and a live-streamed Devourment. An adaptation of Takashi Ito's Grim (1985) in prose. Excited to get this out into the world soon

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ＰＡＵＬＫ | ＷＡＫＥＩＳＬＡＮＤ @wakeisland.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

You would think #audible has a vendetta against the recently resurrected cool girl of L.A. lit, Eve Babitz, by giving her books the most spiritually degrading and ugly covers of all time.

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ＰＡＵＬＫ | ＷＡＫＥＩＳＬＡＮＤ @wakeisland.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I asked for books about drugs, addiction and intoxication that feel like being in an opium den in Kowloon, and here’s the new haul based on your recommendations. 🖤

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ＰＡＵＬＫ | ＷＡＫＥＩＳＬＡＮＤ @wakeisland.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

I think it may have got lost in the shuffle of 9/11 content but this was a meaningful conversation for anyone interested in healthcare, sci-fi and emergency medical services. wakeisland.substack.com/p/american-t...

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American Triage: From 9/11 to Fahrenheit 451

When one dystopia isn’t enough.

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ＰＡＵＬＫ | ＷＡＫＥＩＳＬＡＮＤ @wakeisland.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Interesting, somehow I’ve never read his stuff. Heard a lot about The Room. I should check it The Demon, thanks

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ＰＡＵＬＫ | ＷＡＫＥＩＳＬＡＮＤ @wakeisland.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Looking for books about drugs, addiction, intoxication. Nothing clinical or self-help, and no Burroughs. I want stuff that feels like being in an opium den in Kowloon. What’ve you got?

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David Leo Rice @raviddice.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

@whiskeytit.com @wakeisland.bsky.social

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ＰＡＵＬＫ | ＷＡＫＥＩＳＬＡＮＤ @wakeisland.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Anyone else bummed by how dutiful, bloodless, and overly art-directed The Shards adaptation turned out? All lens flare and gloss, no menace, no sexiness, none of what makes a BEE book such a joy to read

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ＰＡＵＬＫ | ＷＡＫＥＩＳＬＡＮＤ @wakeisland.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

New essay and podcast episode with Gideon Jacobs about his article for Spike Magazine “All Images Are Quite Useless Now” and whether the collapse of our old relationship to images might actually be liberating. wakeisland.substack.com/p/falling-ou...

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Falling Out of the Frame with Gideon Jacobs

Photography, AI, consciousness, spiritual practice, and whether the collapse of our old relationship to images might actually be liberating.

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ＰＡＵＬＫ | ＷＡＫＥＩＳＬＡＮＤ @wakeisland.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

I started a new series called Landfall, about leaving behind a career in media and starting over as an EMT in the age of AI. Here's the first post. Hope you enjoy the ride. wakeisland.substack.com/p/landfall-n...

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Landfall No. 1: Dirty Rain

I lost my job to AI. Now I’m becoming an EMT. Notes from my first shift in an ambulance.

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ＰＡＵＬＫ | ＷＡＫＥＩＳＬＡＮＤ @wakeisland.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

All these takedowns of takedowns remind me of how shitty and twee essay writing became during the 2010s: How to Be an Artist (Saltz), No Judgment (Oyler), Trick Mirror (Tolentino), Body Work (Febos), Bad Feminist (Gay).

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Malcolm Devlin @malcolmdevlin.bsky.social · 20/12/2025

One for those 'most anticipated books of next year' lists. Allan on Priest on Ballard and everything in between.

The Illuminated Man. Life, Death and the Worlds of JG Ballard by Christopher Priest and Nina Allan.

This book is about J. G. Ballard. This book is also about death, love and time travel.

In 2024, Nina Allan's husband, the novelist Christopher Priest died. He had been diagnosed with prostate cancer, which had metastasised into the bones, the same disease that killed the man whose biography he'd spent his last months working on - the cult author, J. G. Ballard.

J. G. Ballard possessed one of the most astonishing imaginations of our age, and he had an intense and turbulent history: a childhood spent in the encroaching shadow of World War II, teenage internment in a Japanese prison camp - an experience famously fictionalised in Empire of the Sun. Ballard's novels are among the finest and most unusual fiction that has ever been published. Whether in the hyper-surrealism of High Rise or the erotic violence of Crash, he upended the morality and reality of our world.

Christopher knew many of Ballard's friends and colleagues personally. As a young writer, it had been Ballard's stories, most of all, that had helped cement his passion for science fiction. With much of their early work published in the same magazines, Priest knew about Ballard's world from the inside. He set out to write a biography that would make people understand what he already knew: that J. G. Ballard wasn't just a cult writer - he was one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century.

When Nina and Christopher first met, they bonded over their love for Ballard's writing, rereading his novels and stories together many times. When it became clear that Christopher would not have time to finish this biography, Nina promised him that she would complete it, patching together with her own voice the gaps that remained. If the book began as a tribute from Priest to Ballard, it is now also a love story written by Nina for Christopher. With access to never-before-seen material, The Illuminated Man explores the history and themes of Ballard's life and - with Ballardian strangeness - celebrates and mourns for those that are gone.

This is the story of two deaths, three science fiction writers and one attempt to turn back time.

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ＰＡＵＬＫ | ＷＡＫＥＩＳＬＡＮＤ @wakeisland.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

The early 2020s took us to the ocean floor. The ride is over. There’s no deeper to go. Now we have to step off the elevator and try to live in this place, however hostile it is to life. open.substack.com/pub/wakeisla...

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Wake Island: Cry of the Conquered

FINALE (Written by Paul K and David Leo Rice)

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ＰＡＵＬＫ | ＷＡＫＥＩＳＬＡＮＤ @wakeisland.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

On January 5th, we’re putting out the final post for 2025. In the meantime, we wanted to share a year-end image edition: open.substack.com/pub/wakeisla...

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ＰＡＵＬＫ | ＷＡＫＥＩＳＬＡＮＤ @wakeisland.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

2025 was the biggest drag for movies. These were the only ones I enjoyed

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ＰＡＵＬＫ | ＷＡＫＥＩＳＬＡＮＤ @wakeisland.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

open.substack.com/pub/wakeisla... Perhaps to save itself from the hive mind, humanity is fragmenting once again, breaking the Tower of Babel before some wrathful deity breaks it for us.

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Wake Island: Exploring the Imagery, Sickness, and Energy of 2025

November Edition (Written by Paul K and David Leo Rice)

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ＰＡＵＬＫ | ＷＡＫＥＩＳＬＡＮＤ @wakeisland.bsky.social · 01/11/2025

Contemporary reality feels like a scratch ticket that we’ve scratched everything off of, and yet what’s revealed underneath is either illegible or a harder, stranger form of coating that no tool can scratch.

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ＰＡＵＬＫ | ＷＡＫＥＩＳＬＡＮＤ @wakeisland.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

The rage bait has been taken, swallowed, digested. Rage is the sacrament of a church that’s lost its tether to the divine, a cleansing ritual that no longer cleanses but leads only to more rage, the ceaseless desire for the next hit.

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Joe bielecki @noisemakerjoe.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

The newest Episode of Writing The Rapids is out now! I talked to @raviddice.bsky.social about his new book The Squimbop Condition ( @1111press.bsky.social ), and all that wild ride of a book entails. Take a listen.

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Rejoinder: The Squimbop Condition with David Leo Rice

YouTube video by Joe Bielecki

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