Alexander Saxton

That Eateth His Own Tail Podcast Episode · Wrong Station · 2026-02-02 · 43m

Very proud of the latest @thewrongstation.bsky.social episode. It’s a weird fiction spy thriller. It’s about ‘Operator’ culture and the Imperial Boomerang. Nobody learns anything.

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He’s rock solid on this issue

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Room full of about 100 people gathered around a banner that reads ‘solidarity has no borders’, many hold signs that read ‘abolish ice’

100+ workers organizing in Toronto tonight, here to show solidarity with #Minneapolis #abolishICE #defundICE #ICEout

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Procession of Ghosts Across the Rainswept Land

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Avi Lewis has the juice. He’s sharp, good on camera, knows how to organize, and has a strong, optimistic, and achievable vision for this country. If you’re looking for the Canadian standard-bearer of a Mamdani-style socialist politics, this is your guy.

IN THE EYES OF THE HUNGRY IN THE EYES OF THE HUNGRY is a horror anthology inspired by the works of John Steinbeck. Featuring David Simmons, Brendan Vidito, plus more. Edited...

You can pick up a copy here, and you really, really should. If you like Wrong Station, it’s for you. Moreover, proceeds go to No More Deaths, which offers humanitarian aid to migrants at the US border. Read fiction, fuck fascism, solidarity forever.

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Cover of ‘in the eyes of the hungry’, edited by Michael Tichy and Valentina Rojas. Rendered in charcoal, a male figure flays himself with a straight razor. From Castaigne publishing.

‘It Doesn’t Matter How Many Times You Kill Us’ was first published in this gorgeous print volume from @castaignepub.bsky.social, edited by @emptywrites.bsky.social and @styxteeth.bsky.social.

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Dullahan Podcast Episode · Wrong Station · S10 Bonus · 10m

It’s October. We’re releasing an episode every single day this month. We’re doing this because our enemies are powerless to stop us. Here’s one of those episodes. It’s called DULLAHAN.

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Announcement: A DECADE OF DREAD

10 seasons. Over 150 original stories. Thousands of hours of writing, editing, and recording.

This October, Wrong Station celebrates a Decade of Dread. It's a truly disturbing achievement.

Listen to our special season 10 announcement and discover the all horrible festivities we have in store.

PRODUCTIVITY HACK: fall asleep in a sunbeam partway through the afternoon

There’s an unproduced 4th Ilsa script, ‘Ilsa, Nanny to Royalty’ in my parents’ basement. It’s about Ilsa breaking out of the count of monte cristo prison and trying to seize control of a European micro-nation. Craig Russell from Outrageous (1977) plays the entire royal family, a la Kind Hearts

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It’s a great space, and a fantastic community. I have personally moved EVERY PIECE OF FURNITURE there up and down AT LEAST THREE FLIGHTS OF STAIRS on THREE SEPARATE OCCASIONS now. If this act of faith won’t convince you the vibes are good, you’re beyond reaching!

A lovely newly unpacked office space reserved for WRITING and WRITING ALONE. Lovely birch floors, snug cubicles, cosy bookshelves, etc

If you’re a #writer or other creative looking for a place to work quietly in the heart of #Toronto, the Toronto Writers Centre has just moved into lovely new digs at Bloor & Spadina. 250/mo, 24hr access, no kids, all the damn coffee you can drink. You won’t find a better deal on a desk in this town!

I read MacLeod in high school and didn’t really care. Now that I’m older—now that I know what it is to work a physical job in chronic pain—now that I know what it is to watch my loved ones age and die—I think he’s maybe the best writer this country ever produced.

He’s interested in modernity, but not as critic or apologist. He elevates the strength & dignity of the men he grew up around but isn’t a Retvrn guy, because he understands their brokenness & misery. He’s found his way into a world beyond the meatgrinder, but can’t pretend the grinder doesn’t exist

M’s stories are often about men, but I think he’s the antithesis of the self-consciously masculine midcentury writers we all Discourse about. He’s just some guy. He came from the mine island, he worked the trees, & it sucked. It all just fucking sucked. There was myth & dignity, but pain most of all

More soberly, it’s tough to say why these stories are so good. The prose is beautiful—the storytelling feels so effortless I can’t say whether they’re meticulously structured or completely unrefined. A Taoism of raw timber & crude silk at work. But I think it’s the Truth that makes them sing.

You don’t want to read about how all Good Dogs must eventually either kill or be killed by their owners? You don’t want to drink tea that a crazy lady stirred with her one gross fingernail? U don’t want to watch your once powerful grandfather jack off in a barn?? Then go read American lit, asshole

Oh, you don’t want to read a story about how the narrator’s father has been ground down by labour & will soon die, his like never to be seen again in the world of neoliberal modernity? You don’t want to read about his relationship with animal semen?? SORRY BUD YOUVE COME TO THE WRONG PLACE

Cover of ‘as birds bring forth the sun’. Image of the bleak, rocky shore of I assume Cape Breton Island.

Recently finished reading ‘As birds bring forth the sun—and other stories’ by Alistair MacLeod. Kicked my ass. Absolute belter. Total classic. Wall-to-wall. All killer no filler. Had me hooting and hollering. Everything people hate about Can-Lit—which is to say everything good about Can-Lit.

Thank you!

Not sure it really is a recommendation? Something about it appealed to my own idiosyncrasies—but I might feel bad about causing another human being to wade through it…

The text is About Things, but is ultimately mysterious. Maybe it’s only redeemed by a few strong paragraphs near the end. But it tasks me. I’ll probably try to write my own version of it someday.

I don’t think this is really a recommendation—the book’s long, often dull, and the characters are stock. But it lingers in my mind; the chord doesn’t resolve, and this means it passes an important test for me.

Simak’s kind of forgotten—he’s fusty & weird-in-an-un marketable-way & all his books are about wandering around Wisconsin. I have a soft spot for him, but this is the first time I’ve really paid attention to anything he’s done in terms of craft. Maybe I need to reassess my boy here

Which of course you should know—since the book begins with an argument about indigenous land rights in the US. ‘Oh, it’s about how we were the alien invaders, yeah, heard this one already’. But then you forget about it in all the Carter admin rigamarole. I think it’s a clever way to hide your theme