Ed Steck's A PLACE BEYOND SHAME is a harrowing, original, and endlessly surprising book. Ed Steck's A PLACE BEYOND SHAME is a long-form poetic exploration of autobiographical trauma. APBS is an excavation of memory linked to topography, site, and sight: the bleak expanse of plagued rural landscapes; addiction and terror; the house or the home; and a personal archive of horror, adult, and exploitation films. APBS follows a...