{"product_id":"my-dead-book-9781635902143","title":"My Dead Book","description":"\u003cb\u003eA rumination on survival, queer aging, and estrangement that was a finalist for the Republic of Consciousness Prize.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eMy dead friends are back. I lie in bed at night and see them.\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eHaunted by insomnia and the past as he approaches his fiftieth birthday, the narrator of \u003ci\u003eMy Dead Book\u003c\/i\u003e flips through scenes of his youth and memories of dozens of friends who are no longer with him. Living alone and working odd jobs in Wisconsin, he ruminates on survival, queer aging, his years as a teenage throwaway, and estrangement, wondering whether he has outlived his place in the world. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFirst published in 2021, Lippens's debut novel was hailed as \"a brutally acerbic novel of queer pessimism\" (Donna Marcus, \u003ci\u003eAnOther Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e). As Lindsay Lerman observed in \u003ci\u003eSouthwest Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \"\u003ci\u003eMy Dead Book\u003c\/i\u003e is not transgressive because it follows a gay man as he struggles to survive on the fringes of multiple worlds. ... It is \u003ci\u003econtinually transgressing\u003c\/i\u003e. It's a living book (a living dead book), moving around in time, making tangential connections.\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis new edition includes an introduction by LAMBDA Literary Award-winning American poet and writer, Eileen Myles.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNate Lippens's \u003ci\u003eMy Dead Book\u003c\/i\u003e was a finalist for the Republic of Consciousness Prize. His second novel, \u003ci\u003eRipcord\u003c\/i\u003e, will be published in 2024 by Semiotext(e) (US) and Pilot Press (UK). His fiction has appeared in the anthologies \u003ci\u003eLittle Birds\u003c\/i\u003e (2021), \u003ci\u003eResponses to Derek Jarman's Blue\u003c\/i\u003e (Pilot Press, 2022), and \u003ci\u003ePathetic Literature\u003c\/i\u003e, edited by Eileen Myles (2022). \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eEileen Myles (they\/them, b. 1949) is a poet, novelist, and art journalist whose practice of vernacular first-person writing has made them one of the most recognized writers of their generation. \u003ci\u003ePathetic Literature\u003c\/i\u003e, which they edited, came out in Fall of 2022. \u003ci\u003ea \"Working Life\"\u003c\/i\u003e, their newest collection of poems, is out now. They live in New York \u0026amp; in Marfa, TX.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Semiotext(e)","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50878148346130,"sku":"9781635902143","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_9b1b9560-4daf-4113-bb13-93235ff3b2d2.jpg?v=1738174798","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/my-dead-book-9781635902143","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}