DEATH // SENTENCE
Episodes
Richard Chiem: The King of Joy Challenge
24 Feb 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Richard Chiem's King of Joy (Soft Skull Press) is a novel about porn, weed and good dogs that's also a Lynch-ian vaporwave nightmare *and* a raw, inte...
Mr. Cocaine Toilet (Lords of Chaos Review)
19 Feb 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Lords of Chaos was going to be the definitive story of the bloodiest chapter in extreme metal's history, a cinematic event essential to any true metal...
Esme Weijung Wang: The Collected Schizophrenias
12 Feb 2019
Contributed by Lukas
We get into one of the most anticipated books of the early part of 2019: Esme Weijung Wang's The Collected Schizophrenias. The essay collection explor...
Charlie Jane Anders: The City In The Middle of The Night
04 Feb 2019
Contributed by Lukas
We're back. with a real episode about books, without a single anime in sight. We're talking with Charlie Jane Anders- prolific short story writer, pod...
The Anime Corner: Fate/Stay Night
26 Jan 2019
Contributed by Lukas
I turned my back for a second and Langdon went and recorded an episode entirely about Anime, or as the Japanese call it, 'Manga'. He and a fellow lost...
Cormac McCarthy Hates Us All with Leslie Lee III
17 Dec 2018
Contributed by Lukas
We've got Leslie Lee III of Struggle Session with us to talk about one of his favorite books and ours: Cormac McCarthy's Grind-Western Blood Meridian....
The Best Of 2018 Best Of Episode
14 Dec 2018
Contributed by Lukas
It's the very best Best Of episode of 2018, where we struggle to remember what happened this year, up to and including how many Olympics there were! J...
Capitalist Realism vs. Acid Communism (Mark Fisher's K-Punk, With Tom Whyman)
10 Dec 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Tom Whyman (@healthuntodeath- a reference I get immediately) stops by to discuss the legacy of Mark Fisher, one of the British Left's most innovative ...
George H Welfare Bush Tribute Episode (With Steve Anwyll)
02 Dec 2018
Contributed by Lukas
In this very special episode, Steve Anwyll (@oneloveasshole) is on the line to talk about his book Welfare (on Tyrant Books), a punchy, rhythmic story...
The One Where Rachel Suicide Bombs Bloomingdales (An Interview with Vile Creature)
25 Nov 2018
Contributed by Lukas
I was lucky enough to catch Canadian anti-oppressive doom-duo Vile Creature at their show in Manchester for a chat about everything from their vegan b...
Uber, But For Killing People (Chris Sebela's Crowded)
19 Nov 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Crowded (on Image Comics) is about a ten-minutes-into-the-future world in which anybody can put a crowdsourced hit on anybody else, a party girl with ...
Jenny Hval's Paradise Rot/The Afterlife of Steig Larsson
11 Nov 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Scandinavia fuckin' rips: it's always cold, it's mostly dark and its very existence pisses off CHUDs. We talk about Norwegian singer and novelist Jenn...
Orienteering With Napalm Death (Aubrey Sitterson's Comic Book Story of Professional Wrestling)
05 Nov 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Aubrey Sitterson, author of The Comic Book Story of Professional Wrestling joins us to discuss the One True Sport. Along the way we lust after Zack Sa...
The Foremost Literary Jonathan (Jonathan Lethem's The Feral Detective)
28 Oct 2018
Contributed by Lukas
The best turn-of-the-century literary guy named Jonathan has a new one out, and he's back doing detective stories. Can he get back into the groove he ...
Hot Couch Guy Goes To War (Nico Walker's Cherry)
21 Oct 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Writer, podcaster and Troop Nate Bethea (@inthesedeserts) joins us to talk about the buzzed-about Cherry by Nico Walker, the almost-entirely true stor...
Millennials Killed The Serial Killer (Jeff Jackson's Destroy All Monsters)
15 Oct 2018
Contributed by Lukas
We've got Deirdre Coyle (@DeirdreKoala) and Michael J Seidlinger (@mjseidlinger) on the show to talk about Jeff Jackson's (@deathoflit)Destroy All Mon...
Against Creativity And Cereal Cafes But Not Slimer
07 Oct 2018
Contributed by Lukas
We're joined by The LitCrit Guy (@thelitcritguy) to talk about Oli Mould's Against Creativity, a book that argues that capitalism has co-opted art, so...
Tapes, How They Work (With Christine from Tridroid Records)
04 Oct 2018
Contributed by Lukas
In the sequel or spinoff to the last episode, we're still on the line with Chistine Kelly, owner and operator of Tridroid Records, who helps us to bec...
Eating Crudo? No Kathy (Olivia Laing's Crudo)
02 Oct 2018
Contributed by Lukas
We've got Christine from Tridroid Records on the show to talk about Olivia Laing's fiction debut Crudo... which means actually talking about Gritty, K...
Axis of Horror: The Neckbeard Deathcamp Interview
23 Sep 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Antifascist war-metal breakout stars Neckbeard Deathcamp are signed to Prosthetic Records and playing Maryland Death Fest after one intentionally bad ...
Gary Shteyngart vs. Dril For The Soul of America
10 Sep 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Gary Shteyngart, bestselling, award-winning novelist, has a new book out that weaves together threads of race, class and power to create a vibrant por...
Live Work Work Work BOLT THROWER Die (ft. Corey Pein)
02 Sep 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Corey Pein (@coreypein) joins me to first give us an update on the fallout from the Unite The Right 2 mess in Portland, then to talk about his book Li...
Hideo Azuma's Disappearance Diary (with Sean McTiernan)
27 Aug 2018
Contributed by Lukas
We're joined by Sean McTiernan (@nochorus) of the All Units podcast to talk about Hideo Azuma's Disappearance Diary, the story of the cult manga artis...
Chapo Trap House's Bart Simpson's Guide To Life
20 Aug 2018
Contributed by Lukas
It's safe to say that we and just about everyone else podcasting right now wouldn't have even picked up a USB microphone and 'evaluation' copy of Adob...
Frank Herbert's Dune Part Two: Please Die Brian Herbert (Of Natural Causes, But Please Die)
13 Aug 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Dune is perhaps the greatest science-fiction epic of all time, and thus deserves deep, critical literary analysis. We can't do that so we talk about t...
Frank Herbert's Dune Part One: No Spice/Deep Ecology
05 Aug 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Before there was Star Wars, before there was Game of Thrones, before there was Rick and Morty, before there was Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, there was Dune, t...
Flame On: R.O Kwon's The Incendiaries
29 Jul 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Is R.O Kwon's The Incendiaries (https://amzn.to/2AhLZJC) the debut of the year? Yes. Yes it is. We go deep into this spectacularly written novel with ...
Paul Blart: 410,757,864,530 DEAD MALL COPS
22 Jul 2018
Contributed by Lukas
William W. Johnstone released Trigger Warning on an unready world, despite having been dead since 2004, and we stepped up to give it the informed lite...
Hell-Brides, Goth GFs and The Mere Wife
18 Jul 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Deirdre Coyle of Unwinnable and Christine Kelly of Tridroid Records join me to talk about Maria Dahvana Headley's brilliant The Mere Wife, a modernize...
Trve Apocalyptic Black Metal Lemonade (David Peak's Corpsepaint)
08 Jul 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Dan Jackson of Void Ritual, Dead Wretch and others joins me to discuss David Peak's Corpsepaint (https://amzn.to/2J28AZH), the first and currently onl...
RIP: Y'all - The Bud Smith Interview
04 Jul 2018
Contributed by Lukas
I call up Bud Smith (@budsmith), author of Double Bird and Work and a bunch of other stuff, while he's sitting in his car on a warm summer night, and ...
Death-Conscious Consumption (Dempow Torishima's Sisyphean)
24 Jun 2018
Contributed by Lukas
After a brief sojourn into Elon Musk's latest batch of fuckery, we go elbows-deep into Dempow Torishima's book Sisyphean (https://amzn.to/2tAibRA), fo...
An Edgelord Amount of Knives: Michelle Perez and Remy Boydell's The Pervert
15 Jun 2018
Contributed by Lukas
The Pervert writer and artist team Michelle Perez (@mperezwritesirl) and Remy Boydell ( are on the line to talk about their book (https://amzn.to/2MsV...
Bullshit Jobs // Did DC Comics Get Good?
10 Jun 2018
Contributed by Lukas
David Graeber's Bullshit Jobs (https://amzn.to/2xYaydf) builds on his barnstorming 2013 essay... but does it build enough? And can you trick your boss...
Finnegans Wake Is Vaporwave, with Trevor Strunk
03 Jun 2018
Contributed by Lukas
We get Trevor Strunk of No Cartridge Audio (https://twitter.com/NoCartridge) on the show to talk about the links between videogames and literature but...
Thee Alt-Right Is Stupid: Elizabeth Sandifer's Neoreaction A Basilisk
27 May 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Special guest Jordan B. Peterson introduces this episode of DEATH // SENTENCE, where Elizabeth Sandifer and I discuss her book Neoreaction: A Basilisk...
When I'm Fucked Up That's The Real Me (Tao Lin's Trip)
17 May 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Tao Lin was *the* Alt-Lit guy until the scene crashed and burned, and now he's back with... a book about how mushrooms are from space and you have bad...
The One Where We Don't Mention The Shape of Water (Melissa Broder's The Pisces)
13 May 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Me and Deirdre Coyle (@deirdrekoala) talk about The Pisces by Melissa Broder (@melissabroder and @sosadtoday), which you can get here: https://amzn.to...
Solve et Coagula: The Elle Nash Interview Episode
07 May 2018
Contributed by Lukas
I talk to Elle Nash (@saderotica), author of Animals Eat Each Other (Dzanc Books) and editor of Witch Craft Magazine (@witchcraftmag) about her life, ...
We Refuse: Grand Hotel Abyss feat. Riley Quinn
01 May 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Me and Riley Quinn (@raaleh) discuss Stuart Jeffries' Grand Hotel Abyss (Verso), a group-biography of the Frankfurt School, which means we get to talk...
Anarcho-Buffyism with Margaret Killjoy
25 Apr 2018
Contributed by Lukas
I talk to Margaret Killjoy about her new book The Barrow Will Send What It May (Tor Books), anarchism, punk, DIY, making music, settling down, magic, ...
HP Lovecraft Presents: Barbara Bush's Beach House Barbiturate Boogaloo!
20 Apr 2018
Contributed by Lukas
After a heartfelt tribute to the late Barbara Bush and an impassioned plea to not repeat her mistake of eating dozens of xannies while listening to Dr...
(20) Days of Turin // And Then The MAGA CHUDs Came At Me
10 Apr 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Me and Langdon Hickman (@langdonhickman) talk about Giorgio De Maria's cult-classic horror-ish novel 20 Days of Turin and the much more horrifying pro...
Ep14 Hire More Women Russian Bots (Emily Chang's Brotopia)
21 Mar 2018
Contributed by Lukas
I talk about Emily Chang's book Brotopia for about eight seconds then launch into an extremely relatable discussion of neoliberalism, Cambridge Analyt...
Ep.13 Requiem For A Cyborg Future Tomorrow
15 Mar 2018
Contributed by Lukas
On another double episode, I talk about Eugene Lim's Dear Cyborgs and Nicky Drayden's The Prey of Gods, but also Metal Gear Revengeance again, Black P...
Ep.12 Zebra Don't Read This, Punpun Hello
07 Mar 2018
Contributed by Lukas
It has always been my dream to record extremely likable #content, and in this episode, I think I've finally done it. I talk about Azareen Van der Vlie...
Ep.11 The Chandler Klang Smith Interview Episode
23 Feb 2018
Contributed by Lukas
In this interview with the author of the rather good The Sky Is Yours we talk genre, getting published, reading slush piles, dragons, Logan Paul and t...
Ep10: 'Clocking People- An Original Idea' (Moshin Hamid's Exit West)
14 Feb 2018
Contributed by Lukas
On this very special episode, I come up with a far better idea than podcasting: a Youtube series in which an Australian Death Metal vocalist who wears...
Ep.10 Preview: Metal Moshin Hamid Music
13 Feb 2018
Contributed by Lukas
In which I take a somewhat dim view of the prose style of noted author Moshin Hamid.
Ep9 Reign In Tusks (Don't.Eat.Meat)
06 Feb 2018
Contributed by Lukas
On a very special DEATH // SENTENCE, I talk about Brooke Bolander's 'The Only Harmless Great Thing', but also Instagram, radium, vegetarianism, anarch...
Ep7: The Sarah Podcast (Scott McClanahan's The Sarah Book)
27 Jan 2018
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, I discuss what it means to be a Dirtbag in reference to Scott McClanahan's The Sarah Book, and relate the true story of my high schoo...
Ep6: Blockchain Cryptocurrency Dolphin Sex Bitcoin
16 Jan 2018
Contributed by Lukas
THE FIRST PODCAST TO BE ENTIRELY ENCODED IN THE CRYPTO-BLOCKCHAIN OF BITCOIN, but is also about sex with dolphins, so there's no reason to not give me...
Ep5: Robot Nut Rising: Revengeance
10 Jan 2018
Contributed by Lukas
This week I read Autonomous by Annalee Newitz, and for once I actually enjoyed something. As always I ask the important questions: can robots nut? Wha...