The Last Time I Dip Into This Well, So Help Me God

Thus, fourteen pages into American Sucker... we are treated to Denby’s brief-but-harrowing addiction to Internet pornography. Denby being Denby, this revelation is naturally accompanied by a disquisition on how Plato, Hegel, and Nietzsche might judge these activities, which is either comically self-important or one of the most ingenious meta-commentaries on masturbation we’ve come across in some time.

Daniel A. Brennan reads American Sucker so you don't have to.