Luke Goebel w/ Dane Bahr & Ryan Boudinot, K*ll DICK

Author of Fourteen Stories, None of Them Are Yours and screenwriter of Eileen and Causeway, Luke Goebel, presents his latest novel K*ll Dick, a modern literary thriller that unflinchingly dissects wealth, exploitation, and the perilous line between survival and self-destruction. He is joined by Dane Bahr and Ryan Boudinot.

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At nineteen, Susie Vogelman should be coasting: she’s an NYU dropout with no responsibilities, endless prescription pills, and a Brentwood estate to waste away in. But Los Angeles has other plans. A string of brutal murders targeting addicts spreads through the city, and Susie’s ivory tower begins to crumble. The headlines point too close to home: her father’s ties to an opioid empire, a sinister secret society, and her own complicity in the systems holding it all together.

Then there’s Peter Holiday, a disgraced professor running a rehab scam so audacious it’s almost admirable. When their lives collide, Susie and Peter are dragged into a web of privilege, corruption, and violence, where every escape leads deeper into the rot.

Dark, satirical, and razor-sharp, K*ll Dick is a modern literary thriller that unflinchingly dissects wealth, exploitation, and the perilous line between survival and self-destruction.

Luke Goebel won the Ronald Sukenick Innovative Fiction Prize and the Joan Scott Memorial Fiction Award for his debut novel, Fourteen Stories, None of Them Are Yours. His screenwriting credits include Eileen, starring Anne Hathaway and McKenzie Thompson, and Causeway, starring Jennifer Lawrence and Brian Tyree Henry, who received an Oscar nomination for his performance. He is also known for his role as co-editor at The New York Tyrant and work with Tyrant Books. He lives in Pasadena, CA with his wife, fellow author Ottessa Moshfegh.

Dane Bahr is the author of The Houseboat, Stag and The Dead Ringer. In praise of The Houseboat, The New York Times Book Review said: The Houseboat reminded me of works by Robert Bloch strained through a more literary—but quite welcome sensibility. The Wall Street Journal said: Bahr writes like a demon... it’s haunting sequences may prove impossible to forget. He lives in Washington state with his wife and sons.

Ryan Boudinot is the author of the novels Broken Utopia (Publication Studio, 2025) and Blueprints of the Afterlife (Grove Atlantic/Black Cat, 2012) as well as the serial memoir How to Get Good at Losing Your Job.

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