{"product_id":"the-callout-isbn-9781644212332","title":"The Call-Out","description":"\u003cb\u003eA fast-paced, debut tragicomedy of manners written in verse about queer (mostly trans) women that is funny, literary, philosophical, witty, sometimes bitchy and sometimes heartbreaking.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAashvi, Kate, Bette, Keiko, Gaia, and Day are six queer, mostly trans women surviving and thriving in Brooklyn. Visiting all the fixtures of fashionable 21st century queer society—picnics, literary readings, health conferences, drag shows, punk houses, community accountability processes, Grindr hookups—\u003ci\u003eThe Call-Out\u003c\/i\u003e also engages with pressing questions around economic precarity, sexual consent, racism in queer spaces, and feminist theory, in the service of asking what it takes to build, or destroy, a marginalized community.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eA novel written in verse, \u003ci\u003eThe Call-Out\u003c\/i\u003e recalls the Russian literary classic Eugene Onegin, but instead of 19th century Russian aristocrats crudely solved their disagreements with pistols, the participants in this rhyming drama have developed a more refined weapon, the online call-out, a cancel-culture staple. In this passionate tangle of modern relationships, where a barbed tweet can be as dangerous as the narrator’s bon-mots, Cat Fitzpatrick has fashioned a modern novel of manners that gives readers access to a vibrant cultural underground.\"Cat Fitzpatrick’s genre-bending “novel in verse” about queer (mostly trans) women is an homage to the Pushkin’s Eugene Onegin, but set in contemporary Brooklyn. The weapon at these women’s disposal is a charged one–the internet call out, a symptom of cancel culture. At stake is the precarity of a marginalized community, a picture developed in dark and hilarious rhyming form.\"—\u003cb\u003eElectric Literature \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"funny and queer and honest and dark and daring and brilliant\"—\u003cb\u003eMichelle Tea\u003c\/b\u003e, author of \u003ci\u003eBlack Wave\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e \"The sweetest, truest tale in verse\u003cbr\u003e Of how we sloshed and spoke and swived.\u003cbr\u003eOf broken hearts and sweet reverse,\u003cbr\u003e'Trans lit' and all it catalyzed.\" \u003cbr\u003e—\u003cb\u003eJackie Ess\u003c\/b\u003e, author of \u003ci\u003eDarryl\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"Cat Fitzpatrick is on the short list of contemporary writers whose work is actually fun\"\u003cbr\u003e—\u003cb\u003eTommy Pico,\u003c\/b\u003e Author of \u003ci\u003eIRL\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"How does Fitzpatrick do it? How does she see it all so clearly--the grace of trans women who play Zelda in gross apartments, the social maneuver behind the moral absolute, the loopy mores of the picnic, the queer lit reading, the library date? \u003cb\u003eShe's the heiress to Thackeray and Rochester, and we're so lucky to have this gossipy, glamorous, and vital novel: one all about justice and the messy queers who have to build it.\u003c\/b\u003e\"— \u003cb\u003eJeanne Thornton\u003c\/b\u003e, author of \u003ci\u003eSummer Fun \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"For fuck's sake! Am I seriously telling you that a novel-in-verse about Brooklyn trans girl drama is not only one of the funniest things I've read this year, but also one of the most skewering, perceptive, and empathetic looks at modern life?!? Yes I am, because it's absolutely true. If you don't read \u003ci\u003eThe Call-Out \u003c\/i\u003enow, you'll just be sad your friends did it first.\"—\u003cb\u003eCasey Plett\u003c\/b\u003e, author of \u003ci\u003eLittle Fish\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Cat Fitzpatrick’s novel-in verse, \u003ci\u003eThe Call-Out\u003c\/i\u003e, turns t-girl gossip into fine art\"—\u003cb\u003eMcKenzie Wark, \u003c\/b\u003eauthor of \u003ci\u003eReverse Cowgirl\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"This is just fucking sonnets, Cat.\"—\u003cb\u003eImogen Binnie, \u003c\/b\u003eauthor of \u003ci\u003eNevada\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003eCAT FITZPATRICK's\u003c\/b\u003e debut novel, \u003ci\u003eThe Call-Out \u003c\/i\u003e(Seven Stories Press, 2022), was awarded the 2023 Lambda Award for Transgender Fiction. She is the author of the poetry collection \u003ci\u003eGlamour­puss\u003c\/i\u003e (Topside Press, 2016), and the co-editor of the anthology \u003ci\u003eMeanwhile, Elsewhere: Science Fiction \u0026amp; Fantasy from Transgender Writers\u003c\/i\u003e, which won the ALA Stonewall Award for Literature. Fitzpatrick is the first trans woman Director of the Women’s and Gender Studies program at Rutgers University–Newark, and she also serves as the Editrix at LittlePuss Press. \u003ci\u003eThe Dinner Party\u003c\/i\u003e (Seven Stories Press, 2026) is her second novel in verse.","brand":"Seven Stories Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46299984822501,"sku":"NP9781644212332","price":14.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781644212332.jpg?v=1767738586","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/the-callout-isbn-9781644212332","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}