A Meal of Thorns 50- SISYPHEAN with Gareth Watkins

A rain of corpses is falling from the sky, insectoid femme fatales are setting their compound eyes on our tender thoraxes, and our cattle drive across an expanse of nanotech goo is starting to go off the rails. So we ask ourselves: do we still have to go to work tomorrow? Critic, author, & podcaster Gareth Watkins joins to discuss Dempow Torishima’s delightfully strange Sisyphean.

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Guest: Gareth Watkins

Title: Sisyphean by Dempow Torishima, translated by Daniel Huddleston

Host: Jake Casella Brookins

Music by Giselle Gabrielle Garcia

Artwork by Rob Patterson

Opening poem by Bhartṛhari, translated by John Brough

References:

Death // Sentence

Muskism by Quinn Slobodian & Ben Tarnoff