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• DEVIL HOUSE by John Darnielle
• NIGHT FILM by Marisha Pessl *
• WAYS OF SEEING by John Berger
• CITY OF NIGHT by John Rechy *

DEVIL HOUSE highlights

• 27/6: "a luminary I'll decline to name told me, on a live mic: "There aren't any villains in a true crime book. There's the hero, and there's his victims." Everybody in the room laughed." (pg 61)

i hate true crime, but i love fiction about true crime. i love fiction that interrogates why ppl like true crime, and in what (horrible, detrimental) ways they do that (there was a really good essay on the idea of taking the deaths of real life people and making them a "genre" but idr what it's called rn) and also how insanely disrespectful it is to "repackage" that as ""content"". so this moment stuck out to me

total finished so far: 15

• THE METHOD: HOW THE TWENTIETH CENTURY LEARNED TO ACT by Isaac Butler (18/6)
• NO LONGER HUMAN by Junji Ito (18/6)
• COLUMBINE by Dave Cullen (27/5)
• CRITICAL APPROACHES TO WELCOME TO NIGHT VALE ed. by Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock (28/4)
• A MORE PERFECT UNION by Teri Ellen Cross Davis (22/4)
• THINGS HAVE GOTTEN WORSE SINCE WE LAST SPOKE by Eric LaRocca (18/4)
• BLACK TRANS PRAYERBOOK ed. by J Mase III and Lady Dane Figueroa Edidi (7/4)
• BE RECORDER: POEMS by Carmen Gimenez Smith (9/3)
• MANAHATTA by Mary Kathryn Nagle (2/3)
• CHRISTINE JORGENSEN: A PERSONAL AUTOBIOGRAPHY by Christine Jorgensen (25/2)
• SOME SAY THE LARK by Jennifer Chang (20/2)
• THE TESTOSTERONE FILES by Max Wolf Valerio (10/2)
• THERE ARE THINGS MORE BEAUTIFUL THAN BEYONCE by Morgan Parker (30/1)
• ALEXANDRA by Aleister Crowley (28/1)
• SECOND SKINS by Jay Prosser (26/1)

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