Her work has been published in magazines such as Vice and Index, as well as in Semiotext (e) Zipper Mouth is a poetic novel, fragmented and hilarious. Weeks takes the reader on a manic ride through memory and sensation, addiction and affection, on the rippling streets of . · “Zipper Mouth is a brilliant Laurie Weeks has been an underground superstar in the New York downtown writing world since the s. Her fiction and other writings have been published in The Baffler, Vice, Nest, Index, Brand: Feminist Press at CUNY, The. Read "Zipper Mouth A Novel" by Laurie Weeks available from Rakuten Kobo. This novel of a young lesbian addict in **’**90s NYC “recalls Naked Lunch” with “dreamy, impressionistic, and rapturous” Brand: The Feminist Press at CUNY.
Buy Zipper Mouth by Laurie Weeks from Waterstones today! Click and Collect from your local Waterstones or get FREE UK delivery on orders over £ Zipper Mouth ebook mid; A Novel By Laurie Weeks. Read a Sample. Sign up to save your library Written in the brash, fervent voice of the young and addicted, this debut novel from underground superstar Laurie Weeks "is a short tome of infinitesimal reach, a tiny star to light the land" (Eileen Myles). Or so they have sat on my mental bookshelf for the past several months. The first is After Claude by Iris Owens, which was first published in , and which was republished by the New York Review of Books in ; the second is Zipper Mouth by Laurie Weeks, published in by the Feminist Press, under the excellent editorial direction of Amy.
Her work has been published in magazines such as Vice and Index, as well as in Semiotext (e) Zipper Mouth is a poetic novel, fragmented and hilarious. Weeks takes the reader on a manic ride through memory and sensation, addiction and affection, on the rippling streets of New York City's Lower East Side of the s. Zipper Mouth, on the other hand, is hallucinatory and roving, allowing for dreams, specters, epistolary interludes, lyric and temporal vaulting. Perhaps the biggest difference is that Weeks’s narrator is a romantic rather than a cynic, and remains completely enthralled to desire — most notably, for beautiful, taunting, straight girl Jane, and when Jane can’t be had, for dope. Author: Courtney Gillette. October 3, Momentum has a language, and in her long awaited debut novel Zipper Mouth (Feminist Press), Laurie Weeks speaks it fluidly. Every verb pops, and sentences fling themselves forward with colorful climax. In a slim pages, there may not be a denouement—no coming of age, no epiphany, no peak accomplishment—but there is so much movement that to finish the book is to come to a dizzying halt.
0コメント