With regard to Epstein, there's still the fact that his old girlfriend has been jailed for pimping children to... nobody at all.
Thinking about it now, would you consider some of Ishmael Reed's work to be hysterical realism? I've only read Mumbo Jumbo, but I dare say that qualifies. Certain maximalist qualities indicating a hyperawareness of complex and/or conspiratorial arrangements, certain absurdist elements indicating perhaps some kind of disillusionment or commentary on how ridiculous things are, feelings of paranoia, etc.
Oh interesting, didn't know it was originally intended as a pejorative. I had been using it without any connotation of being pejorative, IE basically just fiction which is often maximalist, often absurdist, and often involves paranoia as a fundamental character trait of protagonists which subjectively colors the world of the fiction. Do you know if there is any less pejorative term to refer to this sort of fiction?
Yeah but you're not craner, so it lacks a certain weight.
Haha we had pretty much the same exchange way back then.
In a few years, by which time I’ll have read at least one Delillo novel, I’ll be sure to come back and ask you again.
What are you getting at?
The fact that none of the men who abused those kids has been arrested or prosecuted. Thought that was pretty obvious?