A taste for cannibalism?

A series of recent stomach-churning books, TV shows and movies suggest we've never been so delicious with each other for others.
An image came to Chelsea G. Summers: a boyfriend, accidentally hit by a car, a quick job with a corkscrew and his liver served Tuscan-style, on toast.
< p class="css-at9mc1 evys1bk0">This figment of her twisted imagination is what prompted Mrs. Summers to write her novel, "A Certain Hunger," about a restaurant review with a taste for (male) human flesh.
Turns out cannibalism has a time and a place. In the stomach-churning pages of some recent books, and on TV and movie screens, Ms. Summers and others suggest that time has come.
"Lapvona", the novel by Ottessa Moshfegh published in June, depicts cannibalism in a medieval village overcome by plague and drought. Agustina Bazterrica's book "Tender Is the Flesh", released in English in 2020 and in Spanish in 2017, imagines a future society that raises humans like cattle. Also released in 2017, “Raw,” a film by director and screenwriter Julia Ducournau, tells the story of a vegetarian student vet whose taste for meat intensifies after consuming raw organ meats.
< p class="css-at9mc1 evys1bk0 ">Still to come, "Bones and All,” with Timothée Chalamet. The film, about a young love that becomes a thirst of Human Consumption, slated for release later this year or early next. Its director, Luca Guadagnino, called the story "extremely romantic".
Can you stomach?
A fascination with cannibalism, perhaps unsurprisingly, can go on, as Mrs. Summers learned while writing "A Certain Hunger".
When fact-checkers came calling the frenzied scenes in which the book's anti-heroine grooms her murdered lovers with grotesque, epicurean ep Anouir, their questions about the intricacies of human butchery so disturbed Ms Summers that she became a "raw vegan for two weeks". The creator was horrified by her own monster.
Perhaps the editors were too. When Ms. Summers, who uses a pseudonym, bought the book in 2018, it was rejected more than 20 times before Audible and the no-name press made an offer.
ImageThe tension in "yellow vests" is that you know cannibalism is coming, but when? And why?Credit...Showtime
If she sold "A Certain Hunger" today, Ms. Summers, who is 59 and lives in New York and Stockholm, think it would be c...

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A series of recent stomach-churning books, TV shows and movies suggest we've never been so delicious with each other for others.

An image came to Chelsea G. Summers: a boyfriend, accidentally hit by a car, a quick job with a corkscrew and his liver served Tuscan-style, on toast.

< p class="css-at9mc1 evys1bk0">This figment of her twisted imagination is what prompted Mrs. Summers to write her novel, "A Certain Hunger," about a restaurant review with a taste for (male) human flesh.

Turns out cannibalism has a time and a place. In the stomach-churning pages of some recent books, and on TV and movie screens, Ms. Summers and others suggest that time has come.

"Lapvona", the novel by Ottessa Moshfegh published in June, depicts cannibalism in a medieval village overcome by plague and drought. Agustina Bazterrica's book "Tender Is the Flesh", released in English in 2020 and in Spanish in 2017, imagines a future society that raises humans like cattle. Also released in 2017, “Raw,” a film by director and screenwriter Julia Ducournau, tells the story of a vegetarian student vet whose taste for meat intensifies after consuming raw organ meats.

< p class="css-at9mc1 evys1bk0 ">Still to come, "Bones and All,” with Timothée Chalamet. The film, about a young love that becomes a thirst of Human Consumption, slated for release later this year or early next. Its director, Luca Guadagnino, called the story "extremely romantic".

Can you stomach?

A fascination with cannibalism, perhaps unsurprisingly, can go on, as Mrs. Summers learned while writing "A Certain Hunger".

When fact-checkers came calling the frenzied scenes in which the book's anti-heroine grooms her murdered lovers with grotesque, epicurean ep Anouir, their questions about the intricacies of human butchery so disturbed Ms Summers that she became a "raw vegan for two weeks". The creator was horrified by her own monster.

Perhaps the editors were too. When Ms. Summers, who uses a pseudonym, bought the book in 2018, it was rejected more than 20 times before Audible and the no-name press made an offer.

ImageThe tension in "yellow vests" is that you know cannibalism is coming, but when? And why?Credit...Showtime

If she sold "A Certain Hunger" today, Ms. Summers, who is 59 and lives in New York and Stockholm, think it would be c...