Author Description

<p>"There would be no communion with the Allfather just yet, as Spencer's Valkyrie had different plans. For Spencer, the road to Odin's great hall passed through Human Resources."</p><p>Life hasn't been easy for Spencer Grunhauer. Fired from his NYC nonprofit job for writing a "reactionary" manifesto during work hours, he drowns his sorrows with high-end liquor and online porn while raging against the "Davos Daddies" and their plans to crush Western civilization. But when he meets a young woman on a BDSM dating site, Spencer takes it upon himself to indoctrinate her in the tenets of "the Project," leading him down a rabbit hole of public humiliation and mental illness, culminating in a ill-conceived plot to take the "Davos Daddies" down once and for all.</p><p>NUTCRANKR is a comic examination of fringe ideology, social atomization, and sexual dysfunction in modern America. Dan Baltic's debut novel is a sardonic look at a certain type of Extremely Online character we're all too familiar with and what happens when their delusions and flights of fancy come into contact with the real world.</p>