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WAKE ISLAND, David Leo RiceWake Island: Exploring the Imagery, Sickness, and Energy of 2025
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Evil: A Study of Lost Techniques with Jason Bahbak Mohaghegh
This is the reason for the severity sensed in every lullaby: the sleeping child is a wind chime for the human misadventure that lurks around every corner. They are our only true companions across the great divide (between now, then, and w...
Wake Island: Cry of the Conquered
“Get me to God’s country.”
— Morgan Wallen, SNL
If you’d rather hear this read aloud, the audio version is embedded below.
In the Land of Shadows
The elevator of the first half of the 2020s took us to the bottom of the sea, where a...
CRY OF THE CONQUERED
Written by David Leo Rice and Paul K
We’re hoping to release more podcasts and Substack posts in 2026.
Wake Island: Exploring the Imagery, Sickness, and Energy of 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.
A lot of these images aren’t important, resonant, or meaningful. Most of them are pathetic. But what does it mean when...
Wake Island: Exploring the Imagery, Sickness, and Energy of 2025
“Shallow are the souls who have forgotten how to shudder.” — Leon Kass
In his new book Against the Machine, British novelist and environmentalist Paul Kingsnorth describes “the Machine” in the broadest, most capacious terms possible, not...
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WAKE ISLAND IS A CONVERSATION SERIES ABOUT THE DARKENING UNDERCURRENTS OF CONTEMPORARY CULTURE WITH HOSTS PAUL K AND DAVID LEO RICE \ud83d\udd73️ \ud83d\udc07
I'm a writer of dark and surreal fiction from Northampton, MA. My novels include The Berlin Wall, A Room in Dodge City, A Room in Dodge City Vol. 2, ANGEL HOUSE, The New House, Drifter: Stories, and The Squimbop Condition.
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