Published: 10/21/2021
What happens when the defining moment of your life might be a figment of your imagination? How do you understand—and live with—definitive feelings of having been abused when the origin of those feelings won’t adhere to a singular event but are rather diffused across years of experience? In Bullied: The Story of an Abuse, Jonathan[…]
Published: 11/11/2021
Winner of the 2021 best non-fiction Queer Indie Award Entropy Mag’s Best of 2020–2021 Non-Fiction Books Shortlisted for the ASAP (Association for the Study of the Arts of the Present) 2022 Book Prize The landscape of trauma is scattered with ghosts. Wolves hunkering in the shadows. Memory’s spectral persistence and evasion. Leaky bodies and selves[…]
Imprint: Dead Letter Office
Published: 04/06/2021
Come As You Are, After Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick brings together two pieces of writing. In the first, “After Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick,” Jonathan Goldberg assesses Sedgwick’s legacy, prompted mainly by writing about Sedgwick’s work that has appeared in the years since her death in April 2009. Writings by Lauren Berlant, Jane Gallop, Katy Hawkins, Scott Herring,[…]
Imprint: 3Ecologies Books
Published: 07/08/2021
Last Year at Betty and Bob’s: An Actual Occasion is the third in a trilogy of novellas emerging from a writing practice that taps the cusp of consciousness between dreaming and waking. An Actual Occasion revisits the viral transitioning of the becoming rat-woman from Last Year at Betty and Bob’s: A Novelty (Vol. 1 in the[…]
Published: 11/05/2020
From a stage erected in front of the US Capitol, on April 25, 1993, Michael Callen surveyed the throng: an estimated one million people stretched across the National Mall in the largest public demonstration of queer political solidarity in history. “What a sight,” he told the crowd, his earnest Midwestern twang reverberating through loudspeakers. “You’re[…]
Imprint: Brainstorm Books
Published: 03/12/2020
Aural History is an anti-memoir memoir of encountering devastating grief that uses experimental storytelling to recreate the winding, fractured path of loss and transformation. Written by a thirty-something psychotherapist and queer theorist, Aural History is structured as a sequence of three sections that each use different narrative styles to represent a distinctive stage in the[…]
Imprint: Advanced Methods
Published: 08/06/2020
Making a Laboratory: Dynamic Configurations with Transversal Video defines a new audiovisual embodied research method that short-circuits experimental practice and video recording to generate new kinds of data and documents. Overturning conventional hierarchies of knowledge, “Dynamic Configurations with Transversal Video” (DCTV) grounds both discursive and audiovisual knowledges within the space of embodied practice, synthesizing insights[…]
Published: 04/22/2021
Essays on the Peripheries contains essays written by translator and scholar Peter Valente over a twenty-year period, stretching from the 1990s to 2019. They are a record of literary exploration and discovery, concerned with the recovery of lost works, with those writers whose works were out of print or hard to find, and whose names[…]