Luke B. Goebel’s winking satirical novel Kill Dick parodies contemporary literary and cultural forms.
Set against sun-bleached Los Angeles—a place marked by wealth, addiction, and apathy—the book accumulates exaggerations of crime thrillers, moralizing social novels, and confessional autofiction. Its damaged young central character, Susie, is a caricatured vehicle for critiquing the decay of late capitalism…