Brut (novel)
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Brut (novel) has come up in 1 episode across 1 podcast in TMT, including The Joe Rogan Experience. 1 person has made recorded remarks about it.
What people said
Sam TallentAmerican stand-up comedian, novelist and host of the Chubby Behemoth podcast
Tallent acknowledges that, for his first hardcover release, he deliberately aimed to write commercially appealing genre fiction.
“I wanted to write something that was an easily sellable bit of pulp fiction”
The Joe Rogan Experience: #2575 - Sam Tallent (Nov 3, 2026) · Listen from 3:23
Tallent says Brut began as a short piece about a hitman whose gun jams, which Random House encouraged him to expand.
“I got 30 pages about a hitman killing a guy with his gun that's jammed”
The Joe Rogan Experience: #2575 - Sam Tallent (Nov 3, 2026) · Listen from 2:04
Podcasts
- The Joe Rogan Experience · 1 episode
Episodes
#2575 - Sam TallentThe Joe Rogan Experience · Nov 3, 2026 · 2 h 49 min
Joe Rogan and comedian-novelist Sam Tallent discuss Tallent's hitman novel Brut, a disastrous Kill Tony arena show, comedy careers, literature, fitness, and the rise of AI.