How to Quit Writing Forever and Never Look Back

One gay boy’s weaponized self-loathing emerges as a growing fracture of psychedelic despair and deep psychic violence.

If you gaze too long into the abyss, the abyss gazes back at you, girl. In R. Fey’s astounding debut, one gay boy’s weaponized self-loathing emerges as a growing fracture of psychedelic despair and deep psychic violence. Under the existential weight of God and family, romance and writing, labor and theory, a psyche explodes. Caught between a relentlessly abject consciousness and an increasingly violent psyche, the narrator builds a queer hall of mirrors that warps at every angle. Not for the faint of heart, How to Quit Writing Forever… And Never Look Back! is a destabilizing exploration of a shattered queer id. Trigger warning: It’s also quite funny.