{"id":12549,"date":"2022-02-21T23:52:37","date_gmt":"2022-02-21T23:52:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/starktruthradio.com\/?p=12549"},"modified":"2022-02-21T23:52:37","modified_gmt":"2022-02-21T23:52:37","slug":"robert-stark-discusses-his-novel-vaporfornia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starktruthradio.com\/?p=12549","title":{"rendered":"Robert Stark discusses his novel Vaporfornia"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Robert Stark is joined with Matt Pegas<\/a> and Dan Baltic<\/a> to discuss his new novel, Vaporfornia<\/a><\/em>. Vaporfornia is a surreal dark comedy, a coming of age story set in California, and is the sequel to Robert’s first novel, Journey to Vapor Island<\/a>. This show is a simulcast with Matt and Dan’s dissident, counter-culture, literary podcast, New Write<\/a>.\u00a0 Vaporfornia<\/a><\/em> is available for purchase on Lulu publishing. Also check out Matt’s review of Vaporfornia<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Contrasting Vaporfornia with Journey to Vapor Island, and how both novels capture the zeitgeists of their respective eras
\nThe niche genre of the satirical moving adventure story
\nLiterary comparisons to a Confederacy of Dunces, William S. Burroughs’ Naked Lunch, Lucky Jim, Voltaire’s Candide, and Gulliver’s Travels
\nThe situational humor and dramatic irony
\nVaporfornia as a satire of the themes in Robert’s Substack<\/a> that delve into California’s social, political, class, and demographic dynamics
\nVaporfornia as a travelogue for California
\nAllegories and symbolism in the book
\nSaudade<\/a>, a longing for what could have been or nostalgia for lost futures
\nGio Pennacchietti’s video<\/a> about how Robert’s literary fiction and visual art complement each other
\nThe protagonist’s personal and political journey
\nThe politics of the “Chad Centrist” presidential candidate Roger Blackstone
\nWhether Robert Stark will run for California Governor or have a Vaporfornia tour some day<\/p>\nhttps:\/\/starktruthradio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Vaporfornia-show.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n

Click Here<\/a>\u00a0to download!<\/p>\n

Checkout Robert Stark\u2019s\u00a0Facebook page<\/a>,\u00a0Twitter<\/a>,\u00a0Instagram<\/a>,\u00a0Stark Truth TV<\/a>, novel\u00a0Vaporfornia<\/a><\/em>, and in production documentary\u00a0The Gospel of Gibson<\/a>, and subscribe to his Substack<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Robert Stark is joined with Matt Pegas and Dan Baltic to discuss his new novel, Vaporfornia. Vaporfornia is a surreal dark comedy, a coming of age story set in California, and is the sequel to Robert’s first novel, Journey to Vapor Island. This show is a simulcast with Matt and Dan’s dissident, counter-culture, literary podcast, … Continue reading Robert Stark discusses his novel Vaporfornia<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1135,572,542,835,709,1061,1218,623,457,291,841,1221,6,203,382,117,459,1344,741,713,417,484,1004,12,4,201,548,1328,532,684,334,3,60,332,423,70,110,376,1134,343,116,270,1203,1191,670,114,68,193,171,1081,1052,283,1264,66,600,494,169,172,622,86,249,606,1173,694,498,1100,527,603,18,131,526,59,244,130,14,762,304,559,516,677,1339,695,1342,717,1318,1201],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12549","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mark-velard","category-1980s","category-aesthetics","category-alicia-silverstone","category-alienation","category-alt-center","category-andrew-yang","category-architecture","category-art","category-beverly-hills","category-black-mirror","category-calexit","category-california","category-capitalism","category-class","category-conservatives","category-culture","category-dan-baltic-matthew-pegas","category-david-lynch","category-demographics","category-despair","category-donald-trump","category-dreams","category-economics","category-environment","category-eugenics","category-futurism","category-gio-pennacchietti","category-greg-johnson","category-hollywood","category-humor","category-immigration","category-incels","category-income-inequality","category-internet","category-iq","category-james-omeara","category-journalism","category-journey-to-vapor-island","category-liberalism","category-literature","category-los-angeles","category-malls","category-matthew-pegas","category-media","category-michel-houellebecq","category-middle-class","category-millennials","category-morality","category-mount-diablo","category-mulholland-drive","category-multiculturalism","category-neo-tribalism","category-neoliberalism","category-neon","category-personality-types","category-philosophy","category-political-correctness","category-politics","category-psychology","category-race-relations","category-radical-center","category-reno","category-retro-futurism","category-reviews","category-sam-hyde","category-san-francisco","category-science-fiction","category-sexuality","category-social-capital","category-social-darwinism","category-social-isolation","category-social-media","category-social-status","category-spree-shootings","category-surrealism","category-swpl","category-the-black-pill","category-travel","category-utopia","category-vaporfornia","category-vaporwave","category-virtual-reality","category-walnut-creek-ca","category-william-s-burroughs","category-yosemite"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starktruthradio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12549","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starktruthradio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starktruthradio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starktruthradio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starktruthradio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12549"}],"version-history":[{"count":27,"href":"https:\/\/starktruthradio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12549\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12592,"href":"https:\/\/starktruthradio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12549\/revisions\/12592"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starktruthradio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starktruthradio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starktruthradio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}