@raviddice

Author of SQUIMBOP CONDITION, BERLIN WALL, DODGE CITY, ANGEL HOUSE, PORNME, NEW HOUSE, NEW FLESH, & DRIFTER. Co-hosts @wakeislandpod, Column in @SouthwestReview

 NYC & Northampton
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Joined February 2013
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Huge thanks to @hank_jost for this incredibly thoughtful and eloquent essay on THE BERLIN WALL and its relation to simulations, kitsch, reality, Sorokin, Cronenberg, and much, much more! @WhiskeyTitBooks @vol1brooklyn @1111Press @altcurrent @blakebutler southwestreview.com/nightmar…

Nightmares in the Language of Kitsch | David Leo Rice's The Berlin Wall

By K Hank Jost

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Now you’re down there, beneath it all. Underneath the strewn fields, in a warm, comforting darkness where, for as long as you remain, there will be no disorder. You explore what could be your new home, as if you’d achieved all you’d set out to already.
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David Leo Rice@raviddiceOct 9
Thanks for having me back -- always a blast! @WakeIslandPod @vol1brooklyn @lgnbrry @NewSchoolWrites
Method and Madness@madmethodpodOct 9
Now free to all. The great @raviddice joined me to talk perhaps the strangest novel of the Vietnam war. MEDITATIONS IN GREEN: David’s personal experience studying w/ Wright, the consciousness of the jungle, the chaos of total information, and much, much more. Link below.
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thinking of re-watching Hereditary tonite, which I haven't seen since it came out... should I do that or watch something new, and if so, what?
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Blue Light Lounge: The Portal (more thoughts on our recent talk with Jarett Kobek) @WakeIslandPod wakeisland.substack.com/p/bl…
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Ben Katchor@benkatchorOct 12
Join me for a conversation with composer David Yazbek about my new book "Hotel & Farm" at the Strand bookstore, 828 Broadway, NYC on Friday, Oct. 16, 2026 at 7:30pm. For tickets: strandbooks.com/ben-katchor-…
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@bradkellyOct 12
This might have slipped under the radar last week. Check it out! We chat in-depth about this. underrated, psychedelic Vietnam novel
Method and Madness@madmethodpodOct 9
Now free to all. The great @raviddice joined me to talk perhaps the strangest novel of the Vietnam war. MEDITATIONS IN GREEN: David’s personal experience studying w/ Wright, the consciousness of the jungle, the chaos of total information, and much, much more. Link below.
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Replying to @madmethodpod @raviddice
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Ep. 21.1 - MEDITATIONS IN GREEN by Stephen Wright w/David Leo Rice — Method and Madness

David Leo Rice joins me to pore over the negatives of this novel. We talk the ongoing reverberations of the Vietnam war, Stephen Wright’s mastery of exposition and psychedelia, David’s personal...

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Thanks for having me back -- always a blast! @WakeIslandPod @vol1brooklyn @lgnbrry @NewSchoolWrites
Method and Madness@madmethodpodOct 9
Now free to all. The great @raviddice joined me to talk perhaps the strangest novel of the Vietnam war. MEDITATIONS IN GREEN: David’s personal experience studying w/ Wright, the consciousness of the jungle, the chaos of total information, and much, much more. Link below.
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Man, Digger rules. Def my movie of the year.
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Thrilled to welcome the one and only Jarett Kobek back to WAKE ISLAND for another wild talk! @WakeIslandPod @vol1brooklyn @beyondzeropod @ElsbyCharlene @SemiotextePress @chriszeischegg wakeisland.substack.com/p/za…
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More new stuff - Here is Sam Farhi speaking about THE SAPSUCKERS. Listen here ore anywhere you get your podcasts open.spotify.com/episode/1m2…

Sam Farhi - THE SAPSUCKERS

Beyond The Zero · Episode

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X-R-A-Y@xraylitmagSep 15
we have a list of recommended books by Andrew Farkas ! the theme is works of fiction that use cinema as part of their style or subject matter featuring books by David Leo Rice @raviddice & Brandi Homan xraylitmag.com/andrew-farkas…

Andrew Farkas Recommends

My cinematic education started pretty early. My mom introduced me to Humphrey Bogart films and my dad to the Marx Brothers and Elvira’s Movie Macabre all before I was a teenager. Later, I would...

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As if retreating into a facsimile of the privacy of their wedding night, Face and Star Simpson pull freak masks embroidered with daisies and carnations over their heads and make a gleeful performance of zipping the mouth- and eye-holes shut before escorting him out of the archive
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Nevertheless, when the exchange is finished, he sees the track helpers tossing bodies into the brush for the dingoes or hyenas that slink out of the taupe background with bright red hanging tongues to receive them.
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Method and Madness@madmethodpodSep 29
Early access starts now! The great @raviddice joined me to talk perhaps the strangest novel of the Vietnam war. MEDITATIONS IN GREEN: David’s personal experience studying w/ Wright, the consciousness of the jungle, the chaos of total information, and much, much more. Links below.
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Replying to @madmethodpod @raviddice
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Replying to @madmethodpod @raviddice
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Ep. 21.1 - MEDITATIONS IN GREEN by Stephen Wright w/David Leo Rice | Method and Madness

Meditations in Green is the debut novel of the writer, and Vietnam veteran, Stephen Wright. Published in 1983 to praise in mainstream circle

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Alvin Lu@alvinluSep 28
Dark history, violent death made Elkin levels of funny, structured in a delightfully chaotic triple-layer narrative sandwich. Felt like I hit the jackpot whenever I opened the book, so clear a case it makes that we are living in a literary golden age but too benighted to know it.
The Delegation by Avner Landes

ALT The Delegation by Avner Landes

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Thanks to everyone for another successful book launch! I really felt the love this week.
Joshua Chaplinsky@JaceyCockrobinSep 22
The Man in the Watch Still Visits Me At Night is now available! Thanks to everyone who’s read and reviewed thus far. Can’t wait for this one to find its audience. @CLASHBooks
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Reading the scene where Shrek sees himself reflected again and again in all the mirrors, my 4YO looked up and said, "I think that's all the same Grinch."
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