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    Are Snakes Necessary?

    Sep 09, 2018 1 minute
    —Yonca Talu

    By Brian de Palma & Susan Lehman, Rivages, €16

    From Kazan to Jodorowsky to Van Sant to Cronenberg, filmmakers have periodically turned to novel-writing as an alternate creative was co-penned by Brian De Palma and his wife Susan Lehman, a former editor and lawyer. The book surveys the contemporary American sociopolitical landscape through a mordant, erotically charged tale of corruption and revenge inspired by the sex scandal involving ex-senator and presidential candidate John Edwards. is rooted not in serious literary aspirations but in the sheer pleasure of its twisted conspiratorial world that ensnares the reader in an anxious web of doubt by constantly toying with the boundaries between artifice and authenticity.

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