You have to stand by your work at the end of the day, and honestly, if this book didn’t make me laugh, I wouldn’t have let it go to print.
No matter how profoundly the rapist’s actions affected the victim, the man himself, separated from that act, is nothing. Or not much, anyway. A boring man in a boring ranch house.
Love Me Tender – Constance Debré
Love Me Tender channels the performative masculinity of Paul B. Preciado’s Testo Junkie and the restless thirst of Jane DeLynn’s lesbian cruising novel Don Juan in the Village. In other words, Love Me Tender is hot.
Whom To Send To: Bernadette Mayer’s Lifelong Epistle
The letter resembles such gestures as the smile or the wave in the way it puts faith in the signs we move between each other as subjects.
I want to take things seriously, because these are serious things I’m writing about, but life is so funny, so ridiculous, and so bizarre—and the more bizarre I made the book, the more the book looked like real life.
The Bulgarian Psychiatrist – Thomas McGonigle
The murderous logic and hypocrisy of communist rule in Bulgaria . . . serves as a haunting backdrop to this dense and caustic piece of fiction that treads along unsettling nihilist pathways.
Welcome to a dysfunctional society!
All someone needs to do is open a window to a place like that and let me peer inside, and I’m intrigued.
stemmy things – imogen xtian smith
Pleasure triumphs over production. stemmy things lives up to this axiom, hitting the reader with a sticky frankness that elicits both surprise and gratitude.
Metabolics – Jessica E. Johnson
Johnson’s diagrams not only play with her background and love for biology but manage to capture the experiences of motherhood and a mother’s body that cannot be expressed with words.