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Dryback
Dryback is equal parts hilarious, titillating, and a hypersexual and porn-brained novelette in the vein of Dan Baltic's Nutcrankr, Delicious Tacos, or Michel Houellebecq.
Javi leads an increasingly depraved lifestyle as a wine-seller in New York City as his fortieth birthday approaches. Resigned to the rampant loneliness and consumerism of the day, Javi passes the time creating deepfake porn starring ex-girlfriends and customers. His world is reinvigorated when he connects with Charlotte, a beautiful single mother. But will Javi's newfound domestic and sexual bliss withstand a full-court press of 2020’s cultural decadence? Or is he setting himself up for his most spectacular disillusionment yet? Dryback takes an unflinching look at what it means to be an aging millennial male with creative pursuits, high aesthetic standards, and raging sexual energies in a world with fewer and fewer good uses for any of it.
Javi leads an increasingly depraved lifestyle as a wine-seller in New York City as his fortieth birthday approaches. Resigned to the rampant loneliness and consumerism of the day, Javi passes the time creating deepfake porn starring ex-girlfriends and customers. His world is reinvigorated when he connects with Charlotte, a beautiful single mother. But will Javi's newfound domestic and sexual bliss withstand a full-court press of 2020’s cultural decadence? Or is he setting himself up for his most spectacular disillusionment yet? Dryback takes an unflinching look at what it means to be an aging millennial male with creative pursuits, high aesthetic standards, and raging sexual energies in a world with fewer and fewer good uses for any of it.
211 pages, Paperback
Published January 20, 2026
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August 8, 2026
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Okay, I just learned way too much about transracialism and white people who identify as black, it was an amusing rabbit hole. If we can identify as anything nowadays, then I sexually identify as “a person who just read a really good book.” Check it out if you’re ready for a deep dive into incel culture. Felt like Amydalatropolis meets Joe Goldberg.
Okay, I just learned way too much about transracialism and white people who identify as black, it was an amusing rabbit hole. If we can identify as anything nowadays, then I sexually identify as “a person who just read a really good book.” Check it out if you’re ready for a deep dive into incel culture. Felt like Amydalatropolis meets Joe Goldberg.
August 6, 2026
The depictions of male coomer sexuality are gratuitous to the point of smut. But even that has a purpose in faithfully depicting the pornbrained protagonist. It's pretty funny and not life-affirming whatsoever.
Review of advance copy received from Publisher
Depraved, disgusting and hilarious
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