“Love is a marketing slogan. Friction is the only truth we have left.”
Hank Fredo doesn’t write romance. He writes the police report.
In SEX 3, the cult author of Suburban Porn and The Last Supper returns to the dimly lit corners of the American night, chronicling the desperate collisions of bodies in a culture addicted to the superficial.
From the turpentine-soaked squats of New York’s East Village in 1984, where art is just another form of bleeding, to the blistering, neon-drenched purgatory of 1992 Las Vegas, where a porn writer and a starlet try to outrun their own shadows. Fredo drags the reader through the decades, ending in the cold, stainless-steel silence of a TriBeCa loft on the eve of the digital age, witnessing the final, mechanical spasms of a relationship that died long before the clothes came off.
These are stories about the spaces between the sheets where the American Dream goes to pass out. It is a world of stale vodka, smeared eyeliner, flickering television sets, and the terrifying clarity of the morning after.
Visceral, hallucinatory, and relentlessly honest, SEX 3 is a travelogue of the void.
“Fredo writes like a man trying to describe a car crash while he’s still flying through the windshield. It’s jagged, it’s wet, and it’s absolutely essential.” — The Underground Literary Review
CONTAINS THE STORIES:
- Ghosts in the Neon Static
- Fear and Loathing in the Valley of Silicone
- Static on the Zero Line
- …and more.