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In this extraordinary debut novel - a portion of which was selected by Dave Eggers for Best American Nonrequired Reading 2008 - an unnamed girl struggles on desperately limited means to meet the demands of doing the laundry and recreational drug use while battling a doomed and unrequited fixation on a straight friend. With comic randomness, an alternating erotic current pulls the reader through the boredom of temp jobs and nightclub epiphanies, all shot through with glimpses of a small-town childhood.
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A selection by Dave Eggers for Best American Nonrequired Reading.
WINNER OF A 2012 LAMBDA LITERARY AWARD
"Brash, exuberant... recalls Naked Lunch and imparts a fresh, lyrical sympathy... Dreamy, impressionistic, and rapturous... an ecstatic love story." --Publishers Weekly "Embarrassment, fear of rejection and all its associated paralysis consume our protagonist whilst the liberating effects of hedonism affect the story by degrees. The result is a beautiful telling of psychosis (drug-induced and otherwise) that is painfully honest and depressingly funny. Another good book for anyone keen to laugh at the tragedy of existence (who isn't?) and to savour the talents of a bright, new literary force." --AnOther Magazine "Laurie Weeks's Zipper Mouth is a short tome of infinitesimal reach, a tiny star to light the land." --Eileen Myles, author of Inferno "Zipper Mouth is a brilliant rabbit hole of pitch-black hilarity, undead obsession, the horror of the everyday, and drug, drugs, drugs." --Michelle Tea, author of Valencia
About the Author:
A selection by Dave Eggers for Best American Nonrequired Reading.
WINNER OF A 2012 LAMBDA LITERARY AWARD
Selected by Dave Eggers for "Best American Nonrequired Reading."
"Laurie Weeks' "Zipper Mouth" is a short tome of infinitesimal reach, a tiny star to light the land."Eileen Myles, author of "Inferno"
"Zipper Mouth" is a brilliant rabbit hole of pitch-black hilarity, undead obsession, the horror of the everyday, and drugs drugs drugs."Michelle Tea, co-founder of Sister Spit"
"Brash, exuberant recalls "Naked Lunch" and imparts a fresh, lyrical sympathy Dreamy, impressionistic, and rapturous an ecstatic love story. "Publishers Weekly"
"Embarrassment, fear of rejection and all its associated paralysis consume our protagonist whilst the liberating effects of hedonism affect the story by degrees. The result is a beautiful telling of psychosis (drug-induced and otherwise) that is painfully honest and depressingly funny. Another good book for anyone keen to laugh at the tragedy of existence (who isn t?) and to savour the talents of a bright, new literary force." "AnOther Magazine"
"Laurie Weeks's "Zipper Mouth" is a short tome of infinitesimal reach, a tiny star to light the land." Eileen Myles, author of "Inferno"
""Zipper Mouth" is a brilliant rabbit hole of pitch-black hilarity, undead obsession, the horror of the everyday, and drug, drugs, drugs." Michelle Tea, author of "Valencia""
"Brash, exuberant... recalls Naked Lunch and imparts a fresh, lyrical sympathy... Dreamy, impressionistic, and rapturous... an ecstatic love story." --Publishers Weekly
"Brash, exuberant... recalls Naked Lunch and imparts a fresh, lyrical sympathy... Dreamy, impressionistic, and rapturous... an ecstatic love story." --Publishers Weekly "Embarrassment, fear of rejection and all its associated paralysis consume our protagonist whilst the liberating effects of hedonism affect the story by degrees. The result is a beautiful telling of psychosis (drug-induced and otherwise) that is painfully honest and depressingly funny. Another good book for anyone keen to laugh at the tragedy of existence (who isn't?) and to savour the talents of a bright, new literary force." --AnOther Magazine "Laurie Weeks's Zipper Mouth is a short tome of infinitesimal reach, a tiny star to light the land." --Eileen Myles, author of Inferno "Zipper Mouth is a brilliant rabbit hole of pitch-black hilarity, undead obsession, the horror of the everyday, and drug, drugs, drugs." --Michelle Tea, author of Valencia
Laurie Weeks has been an underground superstar in the New York downtown writing world since the 1980s. Her fiction and other writings have been published in The Baffler, Vice, Nest, Index, LA Weekly, and Semiotext(e)'s The New Fuck You. She has taught in writing programs at UC San Diego and The New School, and has toured the US with the girl-punk group Sister Spit.
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- PublisherALYSON PUBLICATIONS
- Publication date2010
- ISBN 10 1593501544
- ISBN 13 9781593501549
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages225
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