Paradoxia: A Predator's Diary

The unspeakable sexual confessions of underground legend Lydia Lunch.

"Hubert Selby, Jr. famously said that he grew up feeling like a scream without a mouth. Lydia Lunch, one of his most celebrated--and most uncompromising--literary progeny, delivered scream, mouth, teeth, blood, hair, sperm, knife, and adrenaline in her purgatorial masterpiece Paradoxia."
--Jerry Stahl, from the introduction

Paradoxia contains frank and often shocking confessions. Lydia Lunch relays in graphic detail a predator’s diary, revealing the true psychic repercussions of sexual misadventure. From New York to London to New Orleans, Paradoxia is an uncensored, novelized account of one woman’s assault on the male of the species.