Luke Goebel’s Kill Dick is a novel, confrontation, and movement, all in one. The award-winning author and screenwriter, known in part for his debut novel, Fourteen Stories, None of Them Are Yours, hasn’t invented a world shaped by violence, addiction, and a blasé, let-them-eat-poisonous-cake indifference. Rather, he’s reflecting the one we’re already stuck in. What he offers in his latest work, now available wherever you buy books, is a sharpened, highly unsettling lens; a cast of characters who move through this landscape like the walking dead, or simply the dead dead, numbed by spectacle and habit yet hyper-aware of the systems enclosing them.