'The internet just lends itself to dehumanization in a lot of ways,' says the author Eliza Clark, whose second novel, 'Penance,' is a grisly send up of true crime fanatics.
CONNOLLY: Something I really want to talk about is the sympathy in. It’s a book about some girlies who do a bad thing, but all of these characters come off as very sympathetic in their own way.
CLARK: Yeah, it’s maybe an encapsulation of me as a person. I found that in high school, when I did engage in being cruel to people, I would think about it a lot afterwards and really struggle to not feel super, super guilty. I guess that’s almost a mission statement for the book, the idea that when you’re in high school, everybody’s in this cycle of being a bully but also being bullied at the same time.
CONNOLLY: So the book is also about true crime as a genre. It doesn’t make its case in a really overt way, but it’s quite a sly send-up of the way people interact with that genre. Were you reading a lot of that stuff when you were writing it? CLARK: The weird citizen-detective stuff that’s popped up so much in the last few years is so toxic. They’re doing it in the same way that I would useor something, except they’re talking about dead children. It feels like the internet just lends itself to dehumanization in a lot of ways, to treating people as fictional characters.
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