About
Luke Goebel is an author and screenwriter celebrated for his unflinching honesty and innovative storytelling.
A recipient of the Ronald Sukenick Innovative Fiction Prize and the Joan Scott Memorial Fiction Award, his debut novel, Fourteen Stories, None of Them Are Yours, garnered critical acclaim for its fragmented yet profoundly resonant exploration of love, grief, and the restless search for identity. His next novel, Kill Dick, will be published in Spring 2026 by Red Hen Press.
Goebel also co-wrote Eileen, starring Anne Hathaway and McKenzie Thompson, and Causeway, starring Jennifer Lawrence.
He lives in Pasadena.
What people are saying
ADVANCED PRAISE
“Finally, a book brave enough to say what we’ve all been thinking: Dick has got to go.”
—Lukas Gage
“If this book were any better, I’d cut my own head off.”
—Ottessa Moshfegh, author of My Year of Rest and Relaxation
“One of the last few geniuses we have left in this life. I mean that. Luke has a lot of pain in his heart.”
―Scott McClanahan, author of Crapalachia and Hill William
At nineteen, Susie Vogelman should be coasting: she’s an NYU dropout with no responsibilities, endless prescription pills, and a Brentwood estate to waste away in. But Los Angeles has other plans. A string of brutal murders targeting addicts spreads through the city, and Susie’s ivory tower begins to crumble. The headlines point too close to home: her father’s ties to an opioid empire, a sinister secret society, and her own complicity in the systems holding it all together.