{"product_id":"slim-confessions-the-universe-as-a-spider-or-spit-9781934819968","title":"Slim Confessions: The Universe as a Spider or Spit","description":"\u003cp\u003eSLIM CONFESSIONS is an image-text about digital intimacy and visceral material. A work of autotheory, the book lays in parallel the history of slime as a vehicle for horror and entertainment with personal encounters with quotidian slime in the human and animal worlds. At its center is a story of farm labor: A cold spring spent birthing sheep in northern Iceland interspersed with confessions about the author's sexual past. In the lineage of Dodie Bellamy's \u003cem\u003eBarf Manifesto, \u003c\/em\u003e this is a book reveling in repulsion and attraction, a personal investigation of physical touch as approximated by visual media, a slow pour of parallel stories that chronicle a research trip gone awry.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLiterary Nonfiction. Women's Studies.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eMinor, Sarah:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - Sarah Minor is from Iowa. She is the author of SLIM CONFESSIONS: THE UNIVERSE AS A SPIDER OR SPIT (Noemi Press, 2021), BRIGHT ARCHIVE (Rescue Press 2020), and \u003cem\u003eThe Persistence of the Bonyleg: Annotated, \u003c\/em\u003e a digital chapbook (Essay Press 2016). Minor is the recipient of a Research Fellowship to Iceland from the American-Scandinavian Foundation and was awarded the 2018 Gulf Coast Barthelme Prize in Short Prose. She co-directs the Cleveland Drafts Literary Festival and teaches Creative Writing at the Cleveland Institute of Art in Cleveland, Ohio, where she lives with the writer Thomas Mira y Lopez.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Noemi Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50386987745554,"sku":"9781934819968","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_035347b7-2322-46f9-8c76-9097eb8e9075.jpg?v=1728865375","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/slim-confessions-the-universe-as-a-spider-or-spit-9781934819968","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}