Episode 92: A Feast of Snakes - Southern Serpentine Symbolism

Harry Crews' Feas t of Snakes (1976) is a rough and raunchy southern gothic that opens with a lurid bang and never lets up. Jack and Kate are confronted with the seamy underbelly of Americana, from football bullies to dog fights to so, so, so very many snakes (reptilian and human). Why are debate club members the worst ever? Is the ultimate power move maintaining eye contact during scatalogical…