About the author
Missouri Williams is an English novelist, playwright, and editor whose fiction combines satire, speculative elements, bodily vulnerability, and institutions that turn their private rules into a complete world. Her first novel was The Doloriad.
The Vivisectors is a campus novel set around a group of academics and artists whose theories, ambitions, rivalries, and appetites become difficult to separate. Its satire is interested in the damage produced by intellectual performance as well as its comedy.
Where to start
Start with The Vivisectors for Williams's satirical novel of academic life, artistic ambition, and a community making a closed system out of itself.
