Nut Cutting Time
A Review of Dan Baltic's Nutcrankr
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Nut-cutting time.
“Nut-cutting time” is a phrase mostly heard in my neck of the woods. Us Southerners love a colorful phrase, and we especially love a colorful phrase if it is one-part black humor and one-part pure grotesquerie. Nut-cutting time refers to a last resort—when all else has failed, it’s time to grab some cojones and go forward. Most men will face multiple nut-cutting times in their life. For Spencer Grunhauer, the protagonist of Dan Baltic’s excellent novel NUTCRANKR, his nut-cutting time comes after months of embarrassment. Cancelation, humiliation, and a hyper-speed descent down the social ladder lead Spencer, a graduate of one of the finest liberal arts universities in the United States, to bring a 9mm Glock to the Monkey Love May Day, a communistic celebration of bondage and workers’ rights. Spencer’s goal is an explosive missive—a high-velocity impact statement jacketed in metal designed to right wrongs and save the …
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