failbetter.com has a new interview with Sam Lipsyte in which they discuss his recent novel, Home Land:
I’m definitely not interested in simply being shocking, not for any moral reason but because it’s a dead end. You’ll never be able to shock enough. There are moments of sexual humiliation and moments of terrible violence in this book, but they arise from forces set into motion by the narrative. If these events are disturbing there is also logic built into them, I hope. Like Oedipus taking out his eyes. Or Teabag getting teabagged again.
myfanwy collins 