Darryl by Jackie Ess

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In this episode, Rosie and Georgie chat about Jackie Ess’s debut novel Darryl, which came out with Clash Books in 2021. Darryl is about a man called Darryl Cook, a forty-something white guy who lives off his inheritance with his wife in Oregon, and proudly identifies as a cuck. Throughout the novel, we follow Darryl’s earnest and unfiltered musings through a succession of succinct diary-like entries. As the story evolves, so does he, and through his encounters with others in the cuckolding lifestyle, Darryl embarks on a turbulent journey of both self-discovery and self-destruction.

In the episode, we discuss the voice of Darryl, incels, Darryl's masochistic tendencies, and his relationship to his masculinity, sexuality and gender, before ending with a segment on TV, where we gossip about the latest season of the L Word: Ge ...