Indifferently Depraved Book Club

The Indifferently Depraved girls sit down with guest host Jim E. Toledo to hash out the finer points of the Bret Easton Ellis benchmark, 'American Psycho'.  Chainsaws and existentialism ensue.  

We are joined by WV filmmaker, actor, comic - and now, cult leader! - David Smith to chew over his selection, 'The Girls' by Emma Cline.  A coming-of-age love story about a hippie death cult, we all enjoyed this end of summer fluff!  It's perfect beach reading for the IDBC crowd.  Let's dip our feet into some Manson mania and get to know our new all-father.

Kenny Cooper of Lightbearer Photography joins us with a battered copy of Erik Larson's "Devil in the White City", a ponderous tome that dissects the minutiae of H.H. Holmes and the Chicago's World Fair. Together we parsed the delights of turn of the century sewage systems, murder hotels, and the good old days before Instagram and waste treatment plants. 

Penny and Carla bring their friend Nancy Bell to the Vclub for the second annual End the Backlog benefit.  Robert Bloch's game changing noir classic 'Psycho' is the topic this episode, and the girls do a great job exploring the Oedipal complex, the sanctity of motherhood, and alienating their fan base.  

Special guest host Nancy Bell joins Penny and Carla to chew over Joyce Carol Oates' 'Zombie', a novella with a Dahmer-esque anti-hero, and the secondary text, 'Where are You Going, Where Have You Been', an early Oates short story.  We talk a little about our live show coming up Thursday 4/26 at V Club Nightclub at the End the Backlog benefit!  Special thanks again and always to Swamp Rat for our theme music.

'Silence of the Lambs' is our first fiction selection, but the Thomas Harris classic draws on a wide array of heavy hitters and B listers.  Pull out your well-worn paperback and get lost again in the dog eared pages as we meander down memory lane.  Brudos, Gein, Dahmer, Bundy, Heidnik - tweet us if we missed anyone!  And also, let us know - have the lambs stopped screaming?  An ad in the national edition of the Times and in the International Herald Tribune on the first of any month will be fine.  Ta!

This meeting we're talking about Jeff Jensen's graphic novel, 'Green River Killer: A True Detective Story'.  Gary Leon Ridgway was convicted of 48 murders and is estimated to have killed close to 100, so us joking about Etsy's crochet nipple belt trade isn't so bad.  Join us! - or don't, we're indifferent. 

In our pilot Book Club meeting, Penny and Carla discuss Katharine Ramsland, Phd's horrifically titled but well written and stellarly researched 'Confession of a Serial Killer: The Untold Story of Dennis Rader, the BTK Killer'.  Five out of five stars, we were so excited to break this biography down for you!  Big thanks to our editor, Scott Gregg, and Swamp Rat, haunted folk punk from southern WV, for our title theme 'Kill'!