Virility Rituals of North American Teenage Boys (EBM) - Softcover

Briggs, Matt

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1624620663 ISBN 13: 9781624620669

Publisher: Publication Studio, 2014

Synopsis

In the Virility Rituals of North American Teenage Boys tells stories set at the boundary between real men and boys in man drag. In the title story, a man tells the various myths associated with his manhood from the Breakfast Club inspired obsession with "Elephantitis of the nuts" to an unexpected bodily testing sequence executed under the florescent glare of middle school lights. The characters in the fourteen stories live in the shadow of a failed macho culture. These stories have appeared in Birkensnake, The Chicago Review, Filter Magazine, MonkeyBicycle, Roethke Readings, Spork, and TRNSF Magazine. The Review of Contemporary Fiction wrote of Briggs' stories, "As with the songs, the stories are all about life out of kilter, told with charm from the perspective of the odd as norm, not so much magical realism than delightfully pernicious absurdity."

About this edition

• Publisher: Publication Studio
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 1624620663
• ISBN 13: 9781624620669
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 180