The Babysitter at RestI'm so happy this collection exists. I feel drunk with love for these stories. They're so funny and weird and true. Sheila Heti Five storiesseveral as long as novellasintroduce the world to Jen George, a writer whose furiously imaginative new voice calls to mind Donald Barthelme and Leonora Carrington no less than Kathy Acker and Chris Kraus. In Guidance The Party, an ethereal alcoholic Guide in robes and flowing hair appears to help a thirty three

with a years-in-the-making oral history culled from a lineup of new interviews with the film’s stars (Kyle MacLachlan

And in a society where lack of identification is a crime

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non-Western and Indigenous perspectives

Working to neutralize trauma

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served as the first director of the Literature Program at the National Endowment for the Arts

and the eroticism is only represented by the abandoned clothes

Vollmann is a carbon burner just like the rest of us

With his notoriously dry wit

from bestselling progressive intellectual Malcolm Harris—“a brilliant thinker and writer capable of making the intricacies of economic conditions supremely readable” (Vulture)

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