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“If this book were any better, I’d cut my own head off.” ― Ottessa Moshfegh
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NEW YORK POST
This satirical literary thriller has shades of Joan Didion and Bret Easton Ellis. A 19-year-old NYU dropout returns home to Brentwood to laze about and enjoy popping prescription pills. But when addicts around Los Angeles keep getting murdered, she finds her father and his tie to an opioid manufacturer may somehow be connected to the crimes. April 14
USA TODAY
“Beneath the haze and the privilege burns a fearless, too-brilliant-for-her-own-good Gen Z it girl – a kind of modern-day Raskolnikov in lip gloss and vintage Céline – who refuses to stay complicit or silent, even if awakening means breaking the law, the heart, or the world itself,” Goebel says in a statement to USA TODAY.”
PLAYBOY
“Caustic, combative and tender, Kill Dick is the kind of book that makes you want to write… Luke Goebel has woven an insane portrait of Los Angeles in the vein of Bret Easton Ellis and Joan Didion. It’s a car chase of a novel, where you never want to look away.”
LITERARY HUB
“Goebel’s LA thriller comes packaged with not only an insane blurb from his wife, Ottessa Moshfegh (“If this book were any better, I’d cut my own head off.”) but also an apparently earnest one from none other than Anna Delvey, who says, “It’s like if Joan Didion and Hunter S. Thompson had a love child raised on Oxy and existential dread—impossible to look away from…”
ELLE
One of two books Jennette McCurdy wants everyone to read this year: KILL DICK
“I’ve read an early copy of ‘Kill Dick’...I fell in love with [the] protagonist, and that’s what hooked me.”
Publishers Weekly
“Ambitious blend of social satire and sunshine noir from Luke Goebel (Fourteen Stories, None of Them Are Yours). Nodding off poolside in the backyard of the $15 million Brentwood estate owned by her…”