by
Myriam Gurba
What do Joan Didion and a white onion have in common? What do fog and domestic violence have in common? How did William Burroughs kill his wife and his life go on as if nothing had happened? In this brilliant and sharp collection of essays, Myriam Gurba accurately dissects a broken society that tolerates and encourages abuse and oppression in all its spheres: from the privacy of our homes to the streets, schools, the judicial system, and the media. Through eleven electrifying pieces, Gurba explores her life and those of others–famous, infamous, and anonymous–to trace an informal sociology of “creeps,” individuals who deceive, exploit, and oppress, as well as of “creep culture,” whose dynamics and structures have fueled them and allowed them to act with total impunity. Until now.