Hogg - Reviews

"Everything is in excess here, but nothing is gratuitous, and as the excess slowly bleeds out of a reader's mind, one is left with the strength of Delany's writing and thinking. Hogg is an exceptional and unique book; it is extremely difficult, extremely harrowing, but well worth it."

-American Book Review

"Hogg is a truly significant book. It is distasteful, raw, and upsetting; it also treats some of the sexual taboos that Americans do not want addressed in either art or politics. Hogg is an artistic triumph, as well as a political one."

-John O'Brien

"Hogg is a truly experimental novel…a minimalist testing of a single hypothesis. It wants to know to what limits appetite can suffuse consciousness before that consciousness stops being human."

-Bruce Benderson

"Hogg is a terrifying journey into the body and soul of a man who embodies all the nighmarish excesses of our century, a creature as much a part of the fever-dream of American life in the '90's as Jeffrey Dahmer...(We read) of such monsters as Delany's Hogg with pity and horror..."

-Elizabeth Hand