Bookworm, no. 7
Fiction by Patrik Sampler. Non-fiction by Scott Clarke. Keeping secrets. Inside the September issue.
A Different Sort of Strip Club
Naked Defiance
Patrik Sampler
New Star Books
184 pages, softcover and ebook
Patrik Sampler’s second novel, Naked Defiance, confounds categorization. Ostensibly about a ragtag team of countercultural rebels, it’s at once a complex metafiction, a Kafkaesque satire, and a smart critique of neoliberalism. It shouldn’t work, but it …
