{"product_id":"my-dead-book-isbn-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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eMy dead friends are back. I lie in bed at night and see them.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis new edition includes an introduction by LAMBDA Literary Award-winning American poet and writer, Eileen Myles.\"A perfect book, from the first line to the last. \u003ci\u003eMy Dead Book\u003c\/i\u003e is the most electrifying thing I’ve read in a long time, a poetic, compressed novella about queer loss and addiction that reminded me of Gary Indiana and William Burroughs.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Olivia Laing, \u003ci\u003eThe Guardian\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A satellite of weary, tender doom, in the Midwest amidst the specter of AIDS and the culture wars.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Kate Zambreno, \u003ci\u003eBOMB\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\"What a blistering book—Nate Lippens has created something truly fucking great. It’s as if the storied stars of Lou Reed’s 'Walk on the Wild Side' overshot Manhattan and wound up in Wisconsin, broke and blue with cold and depressed beyond belief by the thought that this nowhere is now home. It’s a bitter pill, but I love bitterness, and who doesn’t love pills?\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Derek McCormack\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"There’s no doubt to this book. You’d think that was a flaw but it’s been burned away. \u003ci\u003eMy Dead Book\u003c\/i\u003e is not short though it is brief. It’s loving, bittersweet, and actually courageous because it tells a story that is slightly unbearable because it’s all secret, awful hard bad secrets and funny as hell. Nate’s balancing act works because the heart of it (this novel) is true even though it’s often heartless. It’s simple. He knows what things are worth. When you need the sea or a bird they’re there like they never were before.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Eileen Myles\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\"What a blistering book—Nate Lippens has created something truly fucking great. It’s as if the storied stars of Lou Reed’s 'Walk on the Wild Side' overshot Manhattan and wound up in Wisconsin, broke and blue with cold and depressed beyond belief by the thought that this nowhere is now home. It’s a bitter pill, but I love bitterness, and who doesn’t love pills?\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Maggie Nelson\u003c\/b\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).\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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.","brand":"Semiotext(e)","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46300405170405,"sku":"NP9781635902143","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781635902143.jpg?v=1767733242","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/my-dead-book-isbn-9781635902143","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}