Horror writer Gabino_Iglesias guides you through the darkness at the Texas Book Festival.
The world would not have been blessed with Gabino Iglesias' dark and disturbingif not for an East Austin brown recluse and the state of Texas' cruel commitment to leaving a fifth of its people without health insurance.
"People are used to an arc where people build to a positive change," he said, but this is not that kind of story."Everything spirals down."Iglesias' dark take on Austin and its relentless apathy toward its poorest residents comes, of course, from reality. Iglesias came to Austin in 2008 from Puerto Rico to get his Ph.D. in journalism: Once he did he spent several years in the gig economy – teaching, writing, and more – usually without health insurance.
So he thought of the most horrible thing possible and put it right before the 100-page mark, where publishers often decide whether or not they're really interested. Iglesias and others have compared it to that scene in Ari Aster's, and it may cause a similarly powerful physiological response in any reader bearing a soul.
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