An art installation in a homeless encampment that points a finger at opioid manufacturers while a serial killer stalks the city; that's just part of Luke Goebel's Kill Dick, a multifaceted novel that plumbs the depths of L.A. fiction's best traits. Then, Ed Simon returns to talk about the value of writing when the world is ending.
Kill Dick by Luke Goebel is out now.
Writing During the Apocalypse: Reflections on the Great Unraveling by Ed Simon is out now.
Works cited this episode:
Yesteryear by Caro Claire Burke
Less Than Zero, Bret Easton Ellis
Day of the Locust, Nathanael West
Play it as it Lays, Joan Didion
The Shards, Bret Easton Ellis
The Pisces, Melissa Broder
Hamlet, William Shakespeare
Eileen, dir. William Oldroyd
The Dove and the Dragon, Ed Simon
Prison Notebooks, Antonio Gramsci
“Perhaps the World Ends Here,” Joy Harjo
Mad Max, dir. George Miller
American Elegy: Notes on the Dis-United States, Ed Simon
In Praise of Purple Prose, Ed Simon
The Elements of Style, E.B. White and William Strunk, Jr.
“Music in Fifths,” Philip Glass