Bold literary fiction. Independent voices. Conversations the publishing industry doesn't want you to have.
Bukowski · Houellebecq · Bolaño · Ellis
The publishing industry does not exist to find dangerous literature. It exists to manage risk on behalf of corporations who acquired imprints from other corporations.
What happened to journalism, to music, to film — the dissolution of gatekeepers by independent creators working outside the established order — has not yet happened to literary fiction. This channel exists to begin that conversation.
We are interested in writers who push against comfort. Bolaño writing into the void from a dying body. Houellebecq refusing consolation. Bukowski refusing respectability. Ellis refusing to look away. These are the writers who tell the truth about how we actually live — not how we wish we did.
The New Satyricon is a YouTube channel, a publishing experiment, and an argument: that serious, transgressive, unflinching literary fiction can find its audience without asking permission from New York.
The novel the publishing industry wasn't willing to publish — and didn't deserve to.
Independent. Uncompromised. Available directly through this website — no algorithm decides whether it reaches you, no editorial committee decided what it was allowed to say.
Available in standard edition, audiobook, and a private limited edition of 66 numbered copies.
Sixty-six copies. Individually numbered. Signed by the author.
The Private Edition exists outside commerce. It is given — to guests of the channel, to the first believers, to those who understood what this was before it became what it will be.
Not for sale. Inquiries welcome.