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“If this book were any better, I’d cut my own head off.” ― Ottessa Moshfegh
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Luke Goebel | A Killing of Innocence
“The LA novel is so exciting because it’s so technicolor,” says novelist and screenwriter Luke Goebel. “There’s so much to Los Angeles. It’s such an unattainable dream. You go to San Francisco, and the dream is money. You go to New York, and the dream is power. You go to LA, and the dream is to be relevant and to be able to make things creatively. That’s something that always extends the reach of everyone. It’s a dream that has real consequences, especially for the people who don’t get to achieve that dream.”
SF CHRONICLE
Inside 'Kill Dick,' Luke Goebel's opioid-era satire
Luke Goebel revisits San Francisco as he discusses his second novel “Kill Dick,” shaped by addiction, grief and the opioid epidemic.
LA TIMES
Why this author’s spray-painted ‘Kill Dick’ stencil art is all over L.A. sidewalks.
In the back corner booth at a diner in Los Feliz, writer Luke Goebel is shaking off last night’s drive down from San Francisco. “I will just have to warn you I drove like 100 miles an hour through Big Sur,” he says, leaning in over the Formica table. “OK, 90 miles an hour through Big Sur last night, just blasting ‘Dark Star,’” referring to the Grateful Dead song known for its galactic endlessness in live versions. He took the famous California coastal route the 1 back to his home in L.A.
LITERARY HUB
On the Dark Arts of Writing Dangerously (and Marriage, and Life in L.A.)
Luke Goebel Considers the Evolution of a Novel, and a Relationship
OUR CULTURE
Author Spotlight: Luke Goebel, ‘Kill Dick’
Luke Goebel doesn’t enter my Zoom call, “KILL DICK” does. It’s a sensible stone in the path for an all-out burst of promotion that has included graffiti in Los Angeles, merchandise, a FLAUNT party, and a playlist. The marketing mirrors the book, Goebel says, and Kill Dick goes off like a bomb—a cutting commentary on wealth, homelessness, artistic deprivation and those who profit off the weakest members of our society. It’s a realistic satire with its claws firmly in the present, as if Chuck Palahniuk and Joan Didion wrote one LA’s final episode.
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…”