Hogg
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"First written thirty-five years ago and completed days before the Stonewall riots in New York, Hogg is one of America's most famous " unpublishable" novels. It recounts three horrifically violent days in 1969 in the life of truck driver and rapist-for-hire, Franklin Hargus. Narrated by his young accomplice, the novel portrays a descent into unimaginable depravity. What transforms this nightmare into literature is Delany's refusal, faced with our moral anxieties, to mutilate his appalling creation. Hogg's monsters wear our faces, possessing the human complexities of intense loyalty perverse ad
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I got back into using e-readers so I read a lot more this year than usual. - More than Human by Theodore Sturgeon - Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlives by David Eagleman - Hogg by Samuel R. Delany - The first dozen Discworld books (in publication order) by Terry Pratchet - The Wall by Mary Roberts Reinhart - Columbine by Dave Cullen - Garth Marenghi's TerrorTome - Stray…
on “Ask HN: What did you read in 2025?” ↗…detriment, he seem to be quite a. . . well, a pervert, in the most classical sense. I actually think that Delany delights in shocking his readers with detailed depictions of disgusting acts. Reading his novel Hogg quickly becomes a kind of self-inflicted endurance test. It's just a non-stop description of graphic descriptions of murder, child molestation, incest, coprophilia, coprophagia, urolagnia, anal-oral contact,…
on “In Praise of Samuel R. Delany” ↗