Podcasts about jarett kobek

In this episode, host Roifield Brown leads a riveting discussion on America's political landscape after a historic and divisive election. Joined by political activist Zee Cohen Sanchez, tech entrepreneur Mike Donoghue, and author Jarett Kobek, the group dissects the surprising return of Donald Trump to the presidency and the ramifications for the Democratic Party, American democracy, and global stability. The analysis doesn't just linger on Trump's victory; it explores America's ideological divides, the fading influence of character in politics, and how populism has now displaced traditional party structures.The discussion shifts focus to the Democratic Party's future, asking if it's time for a bold recalibration to reconnect with working-class America or to address the stark gender, race, and education-based divides in voting trends. While some argue for a more economically inclusive platform that speaks directly to disenfranchised voters, others contend that the Democratic Party's alignment with elite technocrats has distanced it from grassroots support. Finally, the panel unpacks Trump's alignment with global authoritarian figures and its possible threats to NATO, European security, and the already fragile international order. While some panelists remain cautiously optimistic, hoping for a tempered approach from Trump, others warn of a deeply uncertain period ahead. This episode serves as a wake-up call for anyone seeking to understand the shifting tectonic plates of American politics—and what lies ahead.Notable Quotes:1. Roifield Brown: “The middle ground in American politics is gone. We are witnessing a tectonic shift.”2. Zee Cohen Sanchez: “This wasn't a red wave; it was a red bloodbath. The Democratic Party has lost touch with working-class America.”3. Mike Donoghue: “The irony is, Trump won by portraying himself as the populist, but he's anything but.”4. Jarett Kobek: “Trump's genius isn't in governance—it's in being a master marketer, aligning himself with those who feel ignored.”5. Roifield Brown: “This isn't about America alone. This epoch shift threatens the entire world order.”Further Reading:- [The Atlantic on Populism and Democracy](https://www.theatlantic.com/)- [New York Times Analysis of Voter Demographics](https://www.nytimes.com/)- [Pew Research on the Political Divide](https://www.pewresearch.org/)- [Brookings: Future of NATO in Trump's America](https://www.brookings.edu/). Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The mystic juggalo weebs J. David Osborne and Kelby Losack are joined by screenwriter, author, and Mutual Aberration Society host Ryan Jackson to discuss 2023's Netflix anime ONIMUSHA, directed by godfather of the show, Takashi Miike and based on the Capcom series of video games. We discuss: the Agitator sound board, slur buttons, how Koreans say "I," Nick-r-Treat and '90s commercials, Programmed to Kill, Subliminal Jihad, Programmed to Chill, the life and music of XXXTentacion, Do Every Thing Wrong! by Jarett Kobek, Island Boys selling their souls and kissing each other, gates of hell, Miike's career trajectory, Yakuza-run production companies, the Capcom video games ONIMUSHA is based on, which Japanese emperors were the best aka the worst, why is Oda Nobunaga always a villain in Japanese media?, identifying as samurai, vikings as the white samurai, the ONIMUSHA movie that never happened because Heath Ledger died, how we feel about all the Miike touches in the ONIMUSHA anime, why ONIMUSHA stans are mad about the anime, lore nerds, writers against plotting, filmmakers who are painters, are Takashi Miike and David Lynch each other's yin and yang?, why AI is not a threat and how to either use it or not care, paint-by-numbers critics, why Star Wars is best in video game form, utilizing the unique aspects of the medium in which you are creating in, the history of samurai and western cross-referencing, idea vs execution... and this is all within the first hour. We made this one free as a reference point for what Agitator is all about. It's a good hang, it's a comedy show, it's craft and hustle talk, it's anime obsession, it's esoteric, and it's uninhibited. Best podcast in the world. Check out our books, short films, bonus and uncut episodes, book club, and exclusive private Discord access at patreon.com/agitator 

“The FBI's investigation into the Zodiac Killer remains open and unsolved.” Maybe not for long. Jarett Kobek's book “How To Find Zodiac” (Audible - Amazon) explores a new theory of the case that brings to light an entirely new name. Jarett takes us down the rabbit hole on his investigation and tells what it took to develop and name his main suspect. Is he right? Listen and see what you think. Keep an open mind. Not everything is as it seems. Join us at Patreon.com/gameofcrimes for great content you won't hear anywhere else Donate at paypal.me/gameofcrimes or go to paypal.com and use our email: gameofcrimespodcast@gmail.com Go to GameOfCrimesPodcast.com for more info and merch Follow us on... Twitter Facebook Instagram

“The FBI's investigation into the Zodiac Killer remains open and unsolved.” Maybe not for long. Jarett Kobek's book “How To Find Zodiac” (Audible - Amazon) explores a new theory of the case that brings to light an entirely new name. Jarett takes us down the rabbit hole on his investigation and tells what it took to develop and name his main suspect. Is he right? Listen and see what you think. Keep an open mind. Not everything is as it seems. Join us at Patreon.com/gameofcrimes for great content you won't hear anywhere else Donate at paypal.me/gameofcrimes or go to paypal.com and use our email: gameofcrimespodcast@gmail.com Go to GameOfCrimesPodcast.com for more info and merch Follow us on... Twitter Facebook Instagram Part 1 is sponsored by HelloFresh, America's #1 meal kit. Go to https://hellofresh.com/goc16 and use code goc16 for 16 free meals plus free shipping!

Mike Chapman served in a variety of positions for DEA, in the U.S. and overseas. There were a lot of challenging cases, and tough times. Working as the DEA's Chief of Public Affairs for DEA exposed Mike to the tough decisions he would have to make when he was elected as Sheriff of Loudoun County, Virginia. He found himself and his department in the middle of two of the biggest controversies in the United States, as well as Loudoun County.   The newly released audiobook, HOW TO FIND ZODIAC by Jarett Kobek and performed by award-winning narrator, Scott Brick. Click the link to get the book on Audible. https://www.audible.com/pd/How-to-Find-Zodiac-Audiobook/B0BX4NMCGG Join us at Patreon.com/gameofcrimes for great content you won't hear anywhere else Donate at paypal.me/gameofcrimes or go to paypal.com and use our email: gameofcrimespodcast@gmail.com Go to GameOfCrimesPodcast.com for more info and merch Follow us on... Twitter Facebook Instagram

Jarett Kobek returns to Little Atoms for an extra long episode He talks to Neil about two books, Motor Spirit and How To Find Zodiak. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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 other books include: ATTA, Do Every Thing Wrong!: XXXTentacion Against the World, Only Americans Burn in Hell and The Future Won't Be Long. Motor Spirit: The Long Hunt for the Zodiac It's 1969. Evil lurks in California. From a Napa County hippie child murder to Haight Street gang bangs to methamphetamine psychosis to the killing of Sharon Tate. Here and now, in this place and this time, it's all gone wrong. And there's something else, too. How to Find Zodiac Dear Reader, This is not the Zodiac speaking. The one thing that I ask of you is this, please read this book. It is called How to Find Zodiac. Being that this book is about the Zodiac, it offers a new suspect. The theory is probably correct. At the moment the theory is unproven. But the idea is a bomb waiting to go massive. Can you see the flaws in the hunting method or will you just agree and say case closed. Either way one thing is true. Zodiac can never look and seem the same after you read this book. "A scruffy masterpiece of criminology. It seems to me that either Kobek's painstaking deductions are correct, or we must urgently revise the laws of probability." -Alan Moore, author of From Hell SOCIAL: Twitter: @WakeIslandPod Instagram: @wakeislandpod David's Twitter: @raviddice --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/wake-island/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/wake-island/support

Neil is still on holiday so here's another hit from the Little Atoms archive, Jarett Kobek on his novel Only Americans Burn In Hell. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Jarett Kobek lets you know from page one where he stands with his politics, and his work is only stronger for this. Ben and Emily discuss why it's important to understand that your politics will show up in your work whether you want them to or not, so it might be a good idea to make them obvious. An excerpt from I Hate the Internet (2016) Good Writing is a podcast where two friends read like writers and lay out craft for fellow writers to steal. Co-hosted by Emily Donovan and Benjamin Kerns. Twitter: @goodwritingpod  Email: goodwritingpodcast@gmail.com

In this freewheeling bonus episode, Kylie and Dan assess Jarett Kobek's claim in I Hate the Internet that "the good novel, as an idea, was created by the Central Intelligence Agency." Kylie summarizes her dissertation research on the relationship between the American intelligence community and American fiction, Dan comes up with some wild metaphors, and they both weigh in on whether the CIA's influence on literary production prevented authors from developing new forms or ideas. Plus, a spontaneous NewlyReads Game and Dan's infamous T.S. Eliot impression!An incomplete bibliography of great books on this topic that Kylie references in the episode: For more information on the Congress of Cultural Freedom, see Frances Stonor Saunders's The Cultural Cold War: The CIA and the World of Arts and Letters. For more on the general relationship between American intelligence, literature, and university humanities programs, see Timothy Melley's The Covert Sphere: Secrecy, Fiction, and the National Security State and Robin Winks's Cloak and Gown: Scholars in the Secret War, 1939-1961.For a more focused examination of how Faulkner was promoted as an American asset in the Cold War cultural battle, see Lawrence H. Schwartz's Creating Faulkner's Reputation: The Politics of Modern Literary Criticism. And finally, for more information on the FBI's policing of black writers and thinkers in the twentieth century, see F.B. Eyes: How J. Edgar Hoover's Ghostreaders Framed African American Literature , Barbara Foley's Wrestling with the Left: The Making of Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man, and Richard Gid Powers's G-Men: Hoover's FBI in American Popular Culture. 

Dan Makes Kylie read Jarett Kobek's scree against our contemporary moment. Dan explains why I Hate the Internet is a valuable reflection of the way internet discourse has broken all of our brains, and Kylie attempts to process her frustration with Kobek's means to communicate his message.

Today we are joined by Clint Lose ex capitol hill staffer in Washington, Latosha Brown co-founder at Black voters matter, political commentator and Tv pundit Laura Babcock in Hamilton Ontario. Kyle Kondik managing editor of Sabato's Crystal Ball, Derek Perkinson of the National Action Network. Karin Robinson of the Democratically: 2020 podcast, author Jarett Kobek and Mic Wright the journalistic Fire Starter in Norwich.In a week that has seen the first storming of the capitol since the British took it in 1812 we try to take stock of what happened this week. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Kalifornien brennt. Die Waldbrände haben längst San Francisco und das Silicon Valley erreicht. Bis in die späten Nullerjahre galt die sogenannte Bay Area an der Westküste der USA als utopischer Ort: Hier wurde dank Digitalisierung eine bessere Zukunft für die Menschheit errungen, eine Zukunft der Teilhabe, der direkten Demokratie, der Transparenz und Herrschaftsfreiheit. In den vergangenen zehn Jahren jedoch ist das Silicon Valley zum dystopischen Ort geworden: Die großen Tech-Konzerne überwachen jede unserer Lebensregungen, ihre Algorithmen steuern die Menschheit, künstliche Intelligenz schafft die freien Subjekte ab. Sind die Waldbrände in Nordkalifornien nur das sichtbarste Zeichen für das Ende des Optimismus, der von der Sehnsuchtsformel Silicon Valley ausgeht? Ein Buch und eine Serie jedenfalls eröffnen in diesem Herbst eine ganz neue Perspektive auf die amerikanische Tech-Industrie: “Code Kaputt” heißen die Memoiren der Schriftstellerin Anna Wiener, die aus dem New Yorker Literaturbetrieb floh und jahrelang im Silicon Valley arbeitete. Und "Devs" heißt die neue Serie von Science-Fiction-Star Alex Garland, der uns die Welt der Milliardäre und Entrepreneure von ihrer gruseligsten Seite zeigt. Über das Buch und die Serie und vieles mehr diskutieren Ijoma Mangold und Lars Weisbrod in der neuen Folge des Podcast “Die sogenannte Gegenwart”. Das Buch “Code Kaputt” von Anna Wiener https://www.droemer-knaur.de/buch/anna-wiener-code-kaputt-9783426277737 Der Roman “Ich hasse dieses Internet” von Jarett Kobek https://www.fischerverlage.de/buch/jarett-kobek-ich-hasse-dieses-internet-ein-nuetzlicher-roman-9783596297863 Die Serie “Devs” von Alex Garland https://www.werstreamt.es/serie/details/1587558/devs/ Alex Garlands Film “Ex Machina” https://www.werstreamt.es/film/details/575489/ex-machina/

Today we are joined by TV pundit Laura Babock in Hamilton Canada, journalist Emma Burnell in London in England and by author Jarett Kobek in LA AmericaIn a week that has seen 16 formula 1 drivers take a knee for Black Lives matter, we ask is the Supreme Court the effective check on the Trump administration that the Republican Party isn’t been? See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Jarett Kobek is a Turkish-American writer living in California. He is the author of the novella ATTA (2011) and the novel I Hate the Internet (2016), an international best seller that has appeared, or is scheduled to appear, in seven languages. His current novel is Only Americans Burn in Hell, a kind of Swiftian, take no prisoners satire. I spoke with him at our studios, and he made me laugh.

Only Americans Burn in Hell is the only novel for our certifiably insane times. Its American warts and all everyone takes a kicking in this brilliant book. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Jarett Kobek is a Turkish-American writer living in California. His novella ATTA, a psychedelic biography of the 9/11 bomber Mohamed Atta, was an unexplained bestseller in parts of Canada. His first novel, I Hate the Internet, was a bestseller everywhere, doing especially well in Serbia. His second novel, The Future Won't Be Long, wasn't a bestseller anywhere, but was published in the United States by a company that printed propaganda for Nazi Germany. So there's always hope. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jarett Kobek is the guest. His new novel, Only Americans Burn in Hell, is available from We Heard You Like Books. This is Kobek's third time on the program. He first appeared in Episode 399 on February 3, 2016, and in Episode 476 on August 2, 2017. Kobek is an internationally bestselling Turkish-American writer who lives in California. His work has been translated into nine languages and published in twelve countries. His previous books include ATTA, I Hate the Internet, and Do Every Thing Wrong!: XXXTentacion Against the World. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

My guest is Jarret Kobek. His new book is Only Americans Burn in Hell (https://www.amazon.com/Only-Americans-Burn-Jarett-Kobek/dp/0578529718/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=only+americans+burn+in+hell&qid=1571353565&sr=8-1). If you still want to play the game of American life, then you had better learn to lie. Kneel before false gods. Pretend to care about the ruling class and their illusions. Keep your head down. Pray that no one sees you. Your world is one of endless interruption and constant despair. This is not the future you were promised. What if someone had navigated the chaos of the Twenty-First Century and solved the puzzle of America's blinding and relentless informational assault? And what if they had put that solution into a novel that explained everything? This is Only Americans Burn in Hell, true believer. Rapturously reviewed in the United Kingdom, it's your only guide to 2020 and beyond. Just remember: every suicide needs its note. Special Guest: Jarett Kobek.

This week Robin, and returning guest co-host Bec Hill, are joined by acclaimed US author Jarett Kobek. His novel I Hate the Internet is a regularly mentioned favourite on this podcast, so while he was in the UK it seemed only right to get him into the studio. They chat about that book, his new book Only Americans Burn in Hell, video games, virtue in the age of Trump and other favourite authors. Support the podcast at http://patreon.com/bookshambles to get extended editions of each and every episode. 

Jarett Kobek is a Turkish-American writer living in California. His novella ATTA, a psychedelic biography of the 9/11 bomber Mohamed Atta, was an unexplained bestseller in parts of Canada. His first novel, I Hate the Internet, was a bestseller everywhere, doing especially well in Serbia. His second novel, The Future Won't Be Long, wasn't a bestseller anywhere, but was published in the United States by a company that printed propaganda for Nazi Germany. His latest novel is Only Americans Burn in Hell. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

As the news becomes ever more outlandish, how do we make sense of our current historical predicament and where are we heading? Cult American novelist Jarett Kobek has written a hilarious and provocative satire for our times: Only Americans Burn in Hell. Here at 5x15 he takes part in an unmissable conversation with acclaimed stand up comedian and writer Stewart Lee: an expert in satire this side of the Atlantic, and creator of Stewart Lee's Comedy Vehicle. The book is set in 2019 and America is ruled over by a billionaire reality TV star. The media is owned by a transnational class of the shameless and the depraved. And the people have been silently robbed of their wealth, their dignity and their democracy. In this brave new world, going to see a superhero movie counts as activism, and arguing with the other serfs on social media is political engagement. BUT EVERYTHING’S FINE - as long as you never, ever ask yourself who makes money from the ticket sales and the ratings, or who owns Twitter... "Jarett Kobek articulated things I'd been trying to understand but couldn't find the words to" Stewart Lee Recorded live in London in April 2019. 5x15 brings together outstanding individuals to tell of their lives, passions and inspirations. Learn more about 5x15 events: 5x15stories.com Twitter: www.twitter.com/5x15stories Facebook: www.facebook.com/5x15stories Instagram: www.instagram.com/5x15stories

Harrison’s friend Jarett Kobek comes on the show to discuss his new book about the violent life and versatile works of rapper XXXTentacion. Florida Men Killed Roommate Over PlayStation Theft. Colorado Man Claims Teenager Hired Him on Craigslist to Kill Her. Phone calls. Sign up for the Sick and Wrong Patreon to access bonus news stories, phone calls,...

Jarett Kobek published his first novel, I Hate the Internet, last year with a small indie publisher and it immediately took on cult status. Kobek received a rave review from Dwight Garner in The New York Times, who described the novel “as a glimpse at a lively mind at full boil.” Jonathan Lethem declared Kobek “as riotous as Houellebecq,” and Bret Easton Ellis was photographed reading it in bed. Viking is thrilled to be publishing Kobek’s brilliant and epic follow-up novel, The Future Won't Be Long, a provocative, ecstatic story of friendship, sex, art, and ambition in the twilight days of New York City’s East Village (1986-1996). The Future Won't Be Long centers on Adeline—featured years later in I Hate the Internet—a wealthy art student in New York City who chances upon a young man from the Midwest known only as Baby in a shady East Village squat. The two begin a fiery friendship which propels them through a decade of New York life punctuated by the deaths of Warhol, Basquiat, Wojnarowicz, by the Tompkins Square Park riots, and by the rise of club kid culture. Adeline is fiercely protective of Baby, but he soon takes over his own education. Once just a kid off the bus from Wisconsin, Baby soon finds himself at the center of the club kid social scene, cavorting with Michael Alig and James St. James at The Tunnel, Limelight, and Alig’s infamous “Outlaw Party” at a midtown McDonald’s. As Adeline and Baby both develop into the artists they never expected to become, Kobek pays tribute to the last gasps of the gritty, drug-fueled scene of the East Village as gentrifiers begin to trickle in. Kobek, himself a graduate of NYU, writes with a native’s sensitivity to New York, especially about those who come here with hope and those who come to escape their pasts. Riotously funny and wise, The Future Won't Be Long is a euphoric, propulsive novel coursing with a rare vitality, an elegy to New York and to the relationships that have the power to change—and save—our lives. Jarett Kobek is a Turkish American writer living in California. He is the author of the novel I Hate the Internet (2016) and the novella Atta (2011) James St. James who was once dubbed a "celebutante" by Newsweek magazine, now leads a quiet, sedate existence in Los Angeles, far from the madness that he writes about.  Event date:  Thursday, August 17, 2017 - 7:30pm

Edição de 14 de Fevereiro 2018 - "Odeio a Internet", de Jarett Kobek

Hey there word nerds! Today I am delighted to have Jarett Kobek on the show! Jarett published his first novel, I Hate the Internet, last year with a small indie publisher and it immediately took on cult status and received rave reviews. His new book, The Future Won’t Be Long, centers on one of the characters (Adeline) featured in I Hate the Internet and is set in my favorite city, New York! Listen in as we discuss Jarett’s latest novel and his techniques to keep a book based around technology relevant even when the tech in the story becomes obsolete. In this episode Jarett and I discuss: The art of explaining everything, and why you should use the technique. His tips and tricks for keeping the technology in a book relevant for future generations. When to set a project aside and how to go back and edit it later. How to grow your characters through multiple books as well as in a single book. Why readers want to read multivolume stories. Plus, Jarett’s #1 tip for writers. For more info and show notes: DIYMFA.com/174

More Alive and Less Lonely: On Books and Writers (Melville House Publishing) A collection of bestselling, NBCC prize-winning author Jonathan Lethem’s finest writing on the subject of writers and writing. A readerly wake-up call from one of America’s finest and most acclaimed working writers. Picking up where his NBCC Award finalist collection The Ecstasy of Influence left off, More Alive and Less Lonely collects more than a decade of Lethem’s finest writing on writing, with new and previously unpublished material, including: impassioned appeals for forgotten writers and overlooked books, razor-sharp essays, and personal accounts of his most extraordinary literary encounters and discoveries. Only Lethem, with his love of cult favorites and the canon alike, can write with equal insight about the stories of modern masters like Lorrie Moore and Salman Rushdie, graphic novelist Chester Brown, science fiction outlier Philip K. Dick, and classic icons like Moby-Dick. Edited by novelist Christopher Boucher (Golden Delicious), More Alive and Less Lonely deserves a place on every serious reader’s bookshelf. Lethem’s joyful approach to literature will inspire you to dive back into your favorite books and then point you towards what to read next. Jonathan Lethem is the New York Times bestselling author of nine novels, including Dissident Gardens, The Fortress of Solitude, and Motherless Brooklyn; three short story collections; and two essay collections, including The Ecstasy of Influence, which was a National Book Critics Circle Award finalist. A recipient of the MacArthur Fellowship and winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction, Lethem’s work has appeared in The New Yorker, Harper’s Magazine, Rolling Stone, Esquire, and the New York Times, among other publications. Editor Christopher Boucher is a professor of English at Boston College, editor of Post Road magazine, and author of the novels How to Keep Your Volkswagen Alive and Golden Delicious, both from Melville House. Jarett Kobek is a Turkish-American writer living in California. His novella ATTA was called “highly interesting,” by the Times Literary Supplement, has appeared in Spanish translation, been the subject of much academic writing, and was a recent and unexplained bestseller in parts of Canada. Presently, he's working on a book about the Ol' Dirty Bastard's first album for Bloomsbury's 33 1/3 series. He is the author of the novel I Hate the Internet.

Brad Listi talks with Jarett Kobek, author of the novels THE FUTURE WON'T BE LONG (Viking Press) and I HATE THE INTERNET (We Heard You Like Books). The Otherppl with Brad Listi podcast is a weekly podcast featuring in-depth interviews with today's leading writers. All episodes are free. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This month Macon Holt fills in for Giovanna Alesandro for the 15th Ark Audio Book Club in which we discuss Jarett Kobek’s raucous and rather experimental satire of the cultural dominance of San Francisco’s technology industry. The book is a self-describe ‘bad novel’, and as the original subtitle reads, it’s also a useful novel against men, money and the filth of Instagram. The book is ostensibly about Adeline, a middle aged, kind of famous, comic-book artist with no eumelanin ( in the basal cell layer of her epidermis (more on that later) as she navigates the fallout of having gone viral as a woman with unpopular opinions in a society that hates women. But this is really just a structuring device for a detailed rant of a rage so hot it feels almost cool, on how what seems like the way of the future and the way of the world is merely the happenstance of power, prejudice and childish fantasy. Discussing the book this time are contributing editor of the Ark Review, Emilie Bang-Jensen, and writer and San Francisco native, Nereya Otieno.

Vote for your favourite Australian author, hear about the latest plagiarism scandal, and discover the worst words of last year. Get more writing done in 2017 with some useful writing tips. Find out the benefits of Facebook groups to build your author platform. Also meet Jarett Kobek, author of the runaway hit “I Hate the Internet”, get a bot to nag you to do stuff, and much more! This episode is brought to you by Writing Books for Children and Young Adults at the Australian Writers' Centre. Read the show notes.  Connect with Valerie, Allison and listeners in the podcast community on Facebook Visit WritersCentre.com.au | AllisonTait.com | ValerieKhoo.com

World of Warcraft (Boss Fight Books) At more than 100 million user accounts created and over $10 billion made, it is not only the most-subscribed MMORPG in the world, but the highest-grossing video game of all time. Ten years after its launch, Blizzard Entertainment's World of Warcraft is less a game and more a world unto itself, and it's a world Daniel Lisi knows well. More time in his high school years was spent in Azeroth than in his hometown of Irvine, CA—a home he happened to share with Blizzard itself. Now that Lisi has founded his own game development studio, WoW remains his most powerful example of just how immersive and consuming a game can be. Based on research, interviews, and the author's own experience in a hardcore raiding guild, Lisi's book examines WoW's origins, the addictive power of its gameplay loop, the romances WoW has both cemented and shattered, the enabling power of anonymity, and the thrill of conquering BlizzCon with guildmates you've known for years and just met for the first time. Daniel Lisi is the CEO and co-founder of Game Over, a video game development studio based in Los Angeles, CA. He's a member of Art Share LA's board of directors and facilitates an incubator for individual artists and their projects. Jarett Kobek is a Turkish-American writer living in California. His novellaATTA was called “highly interesting,” by the Times Literary Supplement, has appeared in Spanish translation, been the subject of much academic writing, and was a recent and unexplained bestseller in parts of Canada. His most recent book is I Hate the Internet. Presently, he's working on a book about Ol' Dirty Bastard's first album for Bloomsbury's 33 1/3 series.  Gabe Durham is the founder, editor, and publisher of Boss Fight Books. His novel FUN CAMP was one of BuzzFeed's 17 Books We Loved in 2013. He lives in Los Angeles, CA. Brock Wilbur is a nightmare man with a heart of solid gold. Born in Salina, Kansas and booklearn'd at the Northwestern University in Chicago, Brock is a 6'7" writer slash comedian now living in Los Angeles. He has some books and standup albums and films that you might enjoy, and you can track them all down on the internetwebs. He accepts tributes in the form of video games and gin -- like an adult.

So Much For That Winter (Graywolf Press/A Public Space) Dorthe Nors follows up her acclaimed story collection Karate Chop with a pair of novellas that playfully chart the aftermath of two very twenty-first-century romances. In "Days," a woman in her late thirties records her life in a series of lists, giving shape to the tumult of her days--one moment she is eating an apple, the next she is on the floor, howling like a dog. As the details accumulate, we experience with her the full range of emotions: anger, loneliness, regret, pain, and also joy, as the lists become a way to understand, connect to, and rebuild her life. In "Minna Needs Rehearsal Space," a novella told in headlines, an avant-garde musician is dumped via text message. Fleeing the indignity of the breakup and friends who flaunt their achievements in life, career, and family, Minna unfriends people on Facebook, listens to Bach, and reads Ingmar Bergman, then decamps to an island near Sweden, "well suited to mental catharsis." A cheeky nod to the listicles and bulletins we scroll through on a daily basis, So Much for That Winter explores how we shape and understand experience, and the disconnection and dislocation that define our twenty-first-century lives, with Nors's unique wit and humor. Praise for So Much for that Winter “How often can we honestly say that a book is unlike anything else? Yet here it is, unique in form and effect.”—The Guardian "[So Much For That Winter presents] an edgy evocation of contemporary life. Nors is a creator of small spaces; her fiction is relentless, edgy, brief."—Kirkus Reviews “Uniquely composed, yet eminently readable. Nors's experimental style permits a sidelong glance, not only into perhaps the scaffolding upon which stories are built, but also the spaces between things—much as a painting or song reveals itself in the interims between brushstrokes or notes.”—Jeremy Garber, Powell’s Dorthe Nors received the 2014 Per Olov Enquist Literary Prize for Karate Chop, which Publishers Weekly named one of the best books of 2014. Her work has appeared in the New Yorker and A Public Space. Jarett Kobek is a Turkish-American writer living in California. His novella ATTA was called “highly interesting,” by the Times Literary Supplement, has appeared in Spanish translation, been the subject of much academic writing, and was a recent and unexplained bestseller in parts of Canada. His most recent book is I Hate the Internet. Presently, he's working on a book about Ol' Dirty Bastard's first album for Bloomsbury's 33 1/3 series. 

Today, it is Graeme McMillan versus Jeff Lester versus Batman versus Superman versus I Hate the Internet by Jarett Kobek!  Yes, in this two hour-plus spoiler rich episode, we discuss all the ins and outs of BvS:DoJ, the DC Rebirth announcements, the rumors of Suicide Squad reshoots and the amazing new book, I Hate The Internet, by friend of the podcast, Jarett Kobek! Tough but fair show notes are available at waitwhatpodcast.com, we welcome your comments and questions at WaitWhatPodcast@gmail.com, and we invite you to look out for us on Twitter, Tumblr, and Patreon!

I Hate the Internet (We Heard You Like Books) What if you told the truth and the whole world heard you? What if you lived in a country swamped with Internet outrage? What if you were a woman in a society that hated women? Set in the San Francisco of 2013, I Hate the Internet offers a hilarious and obscene portrayal of life amongst the victims of the digital boom. As billions of tweets fuel the city’s gentrification and the human wreckage piles up, a group of friends suffers the consequences of being useless in a new world that despises the pointless and unprofitable. In this, his first full-length novel, Jarett Kobek tackles the pressing questions of our moment. Why do we applaud the enrichment of CEOs at the expense of the weak and the powerless? Why are we giving away our intellectual property? Why is activism in the 21st Century nothing more than a series of morality lectures typed into devices built by slaves? Here, at last, comes an explanation of the Internet in the crudest possible terms." Praise for I Hate the Internet "Could we have an American Houellebecq? Jarett Kobek might come close, in the fervor of his assault on sacred cows of our own secretly-Victorian era, even if some of his implicit politics may be the exact reverse of the Frenchman's. I just got an early copy of his newest, I Hate The Internet and devoured it - he's as riotous as Houellebecq, and you don't need a translator, only fireproof gloves for turning the pages." -- Jonathan Lethem, The Scofield "A riproaring, form-follows-function burlesque of the digital age that click-meanders its way like the ADHD freaks we're all becoming, while offering up compelling narrative lines that kept me clicking faster and faster. Read this book. Now." -- Dodie Bellamy "I Hate the Internet is thought provoking—and so funny! I can’t remember the last book I read that made me laugh this much. Kobek has a gift for seeing things from a different angle and for uncovering lies and invisible structures of society, and he does it in a playful, anarchistic and quirky way. The rows of association in this book—Kobek’s deconstructing voice—will keep you entertained and baffled throughout the reading." -- Dorthe Nors Jarett Kobek is a Turkish-American writer living in California. His novella ATTA was called “highly interesting,” by the Times Literary Supplement, has appeared in Spanish translation, been the subject of much academic writing, and was a recent and unexplained bestseller in parts of Canada. Presently, he's working on a book about the Ol' Dirty Bastard's first album for Bloomsbury's 33 1/3 series.  Matthew Specktor is the author of two novels, American Dream Machine and That Summertime Sound, as well as a nonfiction book about the motion picture The Sting. His writing has appeared in the New York Times, GQ, Harper’s, The Paris Review, and numerous other periodicals and anthologies. He is a founding editor of the Los Angeles Review of Books.

Jarett Kobek, author of "I Hate the Internet" visited our RE/Search office in February 2016. He was in town on a book tour, stopping off at City Lights in San Francisco. Here he shares his thoughts on writing, social media, living in Los Angeles and many other things. Listen in on the conversation with Jarett Kobek, V. Vale and Marian Wallace, with a cameo purr from Abby the cat.

Jarett Kobek is the guest. His new novel is called I Hate the Internet, available now from We Heard You Like Books.  This one was fun. I didn't know what to expect. Or I guess I sort of knew what to expect: Jarett and I would talk about the internet and what it feels like to hate it. But I didn't know quite what to expect from Jarett himself. Jonathan Lethem called him "the American Houellebecq," so I guess I was imagining that he would be drunk and smoking cigarettes and difficult to talk to, and so on. I imagined him as preemptively hating me, thinking of me as "the media," annoyed that he had agreed to do the podcast. Then he showed up and it was easy. More than that, it was interesting. This is a guy who really thinks about the world that we live in and the information we consume and the products we buy and how the powers that be make these things come to pass. He thinks about a lot more than that, but those are some of his main preoccupations. He's a good conversationalist, a curious person, a skeptic, and, I think it's safe to say, a man who has a very well-developed problem with authority.  The interview runs longer than normal. Hope that's okay. On this one, I just let the tape run. In today's monologue, I talk about some scary health stuff that we're going through with our son, and how that has been all-consuming lately, and how unhealthy (but unavoidable) it is to start Googling when confronted with medical troubles.     Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

BTW (Penny-Ante Editions) Another Skylight favorite, Jarett Kobek, returns with his most comic work yet, a love letter to Los Angeles and terrible relationships. For tonight's reading he will be joined by artist William E. Jones. Bad relationships, interracial dating, cross-faith intermarriage, the endless pangs of love, reality television, Muslim fundamentalism, Crispin Hellion Glover, Internet pornography, Turkish secularism in the era of Erdoğan, the amorous habits of Thomas Jefferson, errant dogs, monogamous cheeseburger tattoos, alcoholics without  recovery, 9/11 PTSD, female Victorian novelists, the people who go to California to die. Jarett Kobek's second novel, BTW, presents the tragicomedy of a young man in Los Angeles balancing a lunatic father, two catastrophic relationships, identity politics, and American pop culture at its most confused. Praise for BTW: “Moving from Williamsburg to Echo Park, Kobek's account of post-NYU life in the aughts (so generic it can barely be lived, yet alone retold) is surprisingly disrupted as primitive identities of religion and race surface among this young, well-connected, smart and otherwise evolved group of friends. In this, his second novel, Kobek's writing continues to impress."--CHRIS KRAUS, author of Where Art Belongs and I Love Dick “Half of BTW is a coming of age novel about the narrator's romantic entanglements, the most significant of which turns out to be with the city of Los Angeles; the other half is the real love story, played out between the narrator and his father. This father, who is by turns hectoring, profane, and tenderin phone conversations and voicemail messages from his native Turkey, counts as one of the great comic characters in recent fiction, the sort of eccentric with whom you spend a minute in an elevator but can't forget."--William Jones, author of Halstead Plays Himself "Jarett Kobek's deceptively artless prose responds like a flower to the sunlight of joy as to the cold rain of alienation. BTW is a book that could be as big as Bright Lights, Big City with the same general framework of a sharply experimental novel that yet can boast a big heart, a joke on every page, an overwhelming city magnificently delineated, and a handful of fascinating and all too real characters.--Kevin Killian, author of Spread Eagle and Impossible Princess “It's like Kobek keyed into John Kennedy Toole's lost biorhythm and resurrected it amid the cosmopolitan absurdities of Los Angeles. Between Tabitha Brown, Khadija, the Butterfed Behemoth and the legendary Mehmet, BTW adds up to a funny and hyper-literate look at failing relationships.”--Ken Baumann, star of the television show The Secret Life of the American Teenager Jarett Kobek is an American author and essayist living in California. His book ATTA (Semiotexte, 2011) is a fictionalized psychedelic biography of the lead 9/11 terrorist and If You Won't Read, Then Why Should I Write? was published in 2012 by Penny-Ante Editions, both of which were longlisted for Novel of the Year by 3:AM Magazine. His most recent criticism, «Je suis devenu un magicien noir», was published as a catalogue essay by White Cube of London. William E Jones  is an artist and filmmaker born in Ohio and now living in Los Angeles.  He has made two feature length experimental films, Massillon (1991) and Finished (1997), the documentary Is It Really So Strange? (2004), videos including The Fall of Communism as Seen in Gay Pornography (1998) and many installations.  His work has been the subject of retrospectives at Tate Modern (2005), Anthology Film Archives (2010), the Austrian Film Museum and Oberhausen Short Film Festival (both 2011).  His group shows include the 1993 and 2008 Whitney Biennials, the 53rd Venice Biennale (2009), and “Untitled (Death by Gun)” at the 12th Istanbul Biennial (2011). His books include Is It Really So Strange? (2006),Tearoom (2008),“Killed”: Rejected Images of the Farm Security Administration (2010),Halsted Plays Himself (2011), and Imitation of Christ (2013).  His solo exhibition, Heraclitus Fragment 124 Automatically Illustrated, opens at David Kordansky Gallery in January 2014.