Name: In-Store: Luke Goebel: K*ll Dick w/ Nicola Maye Goldberg
Start: 2026-05-01T19:00:00-04:00
End: 2026-05-01T20:00:00-04:00
Location: Books Are Magic Montague

$In-Store: Luke Goebel: K*ll Dick w\/ Nicola Maye Goldberg$

“If this book were any better, I’d cut my own head off.” —Ottessa Moshfegh, author of My Year of Rest and Relaxation
About this Event

Event guidelines:

All attendees are strongly encouraged to wear a face mask at all times.
Tickets are limited to restrict capacity.
Additional copies of the book will be available for purchase at the event.
A signing will follow the talk.
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The event will also be livestreamed on YouTube: https://youtube.com/live/ngR9Au26me4
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A fever dream, K*ll Dick is a literary thriller that plunges into the chaos of Los Angeles, where addiction, privilege, and corruption combust.

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.

Nicola Maye Goldberg is a writer and bookseller in New York City. She is the author of Nothing Can Hurt You. Her novel Other Women is forthcoming from Verso in April 2026. She teaches creative writing at Columbia University and the Center for Fiction.