When I learned that HBO Max would be adapting the novel, I was apprehensive: Would the show be able to capture the book’s maniacal humor, its oddly poetic horniness, its gorgeous sense of impending doom? Four episodes in, I’d say - cautiously - yes. As similarly demonstrated in her unhinged Grub Street diets, Nutting has a perfectly twisted way with words, a darkly hilarious and refreshingly frank way of looking at and sending up the increasingly uncanny world we inhabit. I returned to it several times over the years, mostly to try and figure out how she pulled off its freaky magic tricks.
I first read Alissa Nutting’s 2017 absurdist sci-fi-satire Made for Love on an airplane, laughing out loud so many times that my seatmates began to suspect me of insanity.
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