Spencer Dew

Dew's characters' lives collapse into meaningless voids in uninteresting ways as they stumble through their days, and we are lucky enough to be able to watch this unfold. I guess the no-frills chronicling of this decay is supposed to be so impressive to us heathens who just don't "get" what life is like on the fringes. I'm sure Dew will become a famous author in underground circles; pick any random paragraph from this book and post it on Tumblr and see how many "likes" it gets from teens who can relate to its pathos. The book almost seems like a parody of other authors of this ilk, but it's hard to tell.… (mehr)