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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 willing to take risks, without compromise, to resurrect a tradition of provocative literature. 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 publishing experiment, a YouTube channel, and an argument: that serious, transgressive, unflinching literary fiction can find its audience without asking permission from New York.

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The
Hedonist
A Novel

The Hedonist

A meditation in three parts.

Autofiction at the edge of what traditional publishers will permit — and slightly past it. A man, a dissolution, and a reckoning rendered with more honesty than is strictly advisable.

Part I: a floor, a bottle, Coronado at night. Part II: a conversation in a red room. Part III: the party that made the exile permanent.

Transgressive, formally restless, and at times uncomfortably funny. Not for every reader. Exactly for some.

Available in standard edition, audiobook, and a special edition hardcover.

$18
Standard Edition
$14
Audiobook
$120
Special Edition
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The Private Edition

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.

66 Total Copies
№ 1–66 Individually Numbered
Signed By the Author

Not for sale. Inquiries welcome.

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Søren
Balkhaus

Søren Balkhaus is a California attorney who writes outside the boundaries of what the publishing industry is willing to publish.

The Hedonist is his book. The New Satyricon is his channel, his platform, and his argument: that serious, transgressive literary fiction can find its audience without asking permission from New York. What independent media did to journalism, independent publishing can do to literary fiction.

Don't tend the wound. Let the red turn to black. Leave it. Let it stain.
— Sinn Søren Balkhaus VI, The Hedonist