Interview with a View: Reading from #JFTRE7

Here's another backstage pass into the reckless, weirdly poetic universe of Jonnie Fazoolie & the Transfinite Reality Engine, narrated by the sardonic mind behind it all — author Mookie Spitz. 

In this episode, “Interview with a View,” Jonnie Fazoolie — a lanky, allergy-ridden, hot-sauce-guzzling adrenaline junkie with a Ponzi’s conscience and Lincoln’s physique — tries to hustle his way onto Penny’s coveted Thrillionaire’s Under 30 list.

Perched 1,200 feet above the chaotic sprawl of Chicago on a garbage-strewn penthouse balcony, Jonnie spins wild tales of his questionable “successes,” smokes endless joints, and flaunts his cat BS, while Penny, a razor-sharp journalist with Lois Lane style and zero patience for narcissistic train wrecks, tries to keep her composure —and her distance.

The "interview" is actually a standoff of desire and disgust: Jonnie's delusions of grandeur and compulsive charm clash with Penny’s cool, skeptical detachment. He twitches, ogles, offers drugs, spews nonsense about waterproof fireworks and wax pistols, while she tries to flee but stays, magnetized by his sheer reckless energy. Meanwhile his apartment is a surreal stage: pizza boxes, crushed beer cans, a jerry-rigged telescope spying on neighbors — everything about Jonnie screams chaos.

Expect rapid-fire wit, lurid confessions, and a raw exploration of the human tendency to chase the very disasters we claim to hate. Their rapport is messy, funny, a little gross, and disturbingly relatable.

If you crave fiction that’s unfiltered and savagely observant —where every character is both predator and prey, where lust and loathing dance hand-in-hand—this novel and Mookie's readings are your ride. 

Hit play and get hooked.

The Novel

Jonnie Fazoolie & the Transfinite Reality Engine

First Reading

Alice Unchained

Next Reading

Piddle of a Riddle

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