Rupert Taylor Interview Episode 71

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Matt Crawford speaks with author Rupert Taylor about his new novel, Please Let Me Destroy You. While trying to heist a casino in the Cambodian jungle, Apollo Jones has a crippling panic attack. But he’s no seasoned crim, he’s a filmmaker, and he’s heisting the casino so he can turn the story into the first season of a preposterously ambitious TV show he hopes to sell to HBO or Netflix or some other global streaming powerhouse. Spoiler alert: his panic attack stuffs up the heist. As punishment, his partners slice off his right pinky. But the TV show is all he has, so Apollo bandages his stump and heads off on a search for stories that will take him to the steaming streets of Saigon, the glittering hills above Hollywood, and all the way back to the dark and damp Cambodian jungle, where he may or may not be forced to dig his own grave.

Taylor shines a light on the dark underbelly of our society stoked by social media and our celebrity obsessed culture. A delicious satire that is as thought provoking as it is fun to read.