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02/23/22 • 11 min

A science fiction set in the back of beyond, along a stretch of Interstate 80 in Northern Utah’s desolate Great Salt Lake Desert, where for decades the United States military has clandestinely tested its most volatile chemical, biological, and explosive weapons. Here, amidst blinding salt flats and far-flung mountain ranges, one local gig worker unwittingly crosses a top secret threshold, stumbling upon an alarming experiment that upsets the very foundations of our temporal reality. Originally published by Do Not Research: https://donotresearch.net/ Pre-Order the physical book, scheduled May 2022, with original drawings by Thomas J Gamble: https://humorandtheabject.com/store/backslasher

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110: Elvia Wilk

New York writer Elvia Wilk joins to discuss her recent collection of essays on ecologies, “Death By Landscape” (Soft Skull Press, 2022). Using an accessible approach she calls “fan-nonfiction,” Wilk’s latest book catalouges and considers a diverse group of writers, while ruminating on plant-becoming, slow apocalypses, mysticism, LARPing, trauma, the New Weird, consent, and black holes. The outro music is “Planta” by Soda Stereo. Purchase “Death By Landscape,” as well as Wilk’s 2019 debut novel “Oval,” through Soft Skull Press: https://softskull.com/authors/elvia-wilk/