CZM Book Club: Black Hole, by November Rush
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4.7 • 902 Ratings
🗓️ 15 February 2026
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Happy Valentine's Day! Margaret reads you a story about codependent lesbian mushroom parasites.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.5 | Guaranteed human. |
| 0:06.0 | Cool Zone Media. |
| 0:11.1 | Book club, book club, book club, book club. |
| 0:15.2 | Hello! |
| 0:16.3 | And welcome to the Cool Zone Media Book Club. |
| 0:17.9 | The only book club that is introduced by me going book club, |
| 0:23.3 | book club, book club. This week, we're back to fiction, and I have a little Valentine's treat for you. |
| 0:31.0 | This is a really fun story by a writer named November Rush. Hazel pitched this story to me as, |
| 0:39.0 | What if Alien the movie was about the horror of falling in love? |
| 0:43.3 | And so, what more could you want from Valentine's Day than a story about falling in love that is horrible? |
| 0:53.9 | I will have seen Wuthering Heights by the time that you |
| 0:57.3 | hear this, but I have not seen it yet by the time I'm recording it. So I wonder whether it |
| 1:04.7 | will also misunderstand stories about love. Anyway, that's entirely unrelated. We are going to be reading a |
| 1:12.5 | story called Black Hole by November Rush. It's a weird little space journey through psychedelic, |
| 1:18.4 | out-of-control body horror. It's about parasitic body-jumping, codependent lesbians searching to |
| 1:25.1 | find each other again, and the wake of destruction they leave behind them. |
| 1:30.4 | That sounds like romance to me. |
| 1:33.2 | I'm not actually as cynical as I'm making it sound. |
| 1:35.5 | This story is from the collection, Barry Your Gays, an anthology of tragic queer horror, |
| 1:41.2 | edited by Sophia Asram, which Hazel describes as |
| 1:44.4 | very fucking good. |
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