Category Archives: Mark Seltzer

The Serial Killer as a Type of Person

The fol­low­ing excerpt is from the remark­able essay The Ser­ial Killer as a Type of Per­son by Mark Seltzer, a pro­fes­sor of Eng­lish at Cor­nell Uni­ver­sity. (The high­light­ing is my own.)
Obey your thirst!
There is an empty cir­cu­lar­ity in the notion of the kind of per­son called the ser­ial killer lift­ing itself by its own boot­straps: the