CYBERSPACE — Christopher Zeischegg, formerly known as adult star Danny Wylde, is profiled in a recent issue of Bomb Magazine. He has also published a new short story.
The story, titled “Spell,” appears in issue no. 7 of Montreal-based Crooked Fagazine. “It shares a minor character with the novel I'm currently working on, and maybe some of its tone,” Zeischegg said.
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Author Chelsea Hodson penned the Bomb Magazine profile. “I discovered her book while lurking Twitter for a new read, authored by someone who might be within a few years of my age. I wanted to know what the literature of my peers looked like,” notes Zeischegg. “Chelsea's collection of essays, ‘Tonight I’m Someone Else,’ is an example of this literature. Not the first I've found — of course, there are so many young writers — but one of the first I've genuinely connected with. We've since met in person and read on a panel together. In short, it means a lot to me that she took the time to connect.”
Topics in the profile range from “working in the porn industry, the theatricality of violence and the mundanity of capitalism.” Hodson notes she “tore through [Zeischegg’s memoir, ‘Body to Job’] in a matter of days. I imagine it could be easy to write off a book like this, assuming that it might be nothing more than a diatribe against the porn industry, but ‘Body to Job’ is much more complex and insightful than that. Zeischegg interrogates the consequences of turning his body into a commodity, and reflects on what it means to realize he’s good at his job, and what it means to lose that identity.”
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Find “Body to Job” on Amazon. Follow Zeischegg on Twitter here. In related news, Zeischegg has recently made a number of literary festival appearances and he was a guest, this summer, on “The Bret Easton Ellis Podcast”; click here for details.
