books
books in progress
STATE OF DENIAL by Lindsay Zafir (Winter 2027)
AIDS denialism, which emerged in the early 1980s among the gay communities hit hardest by the pandemic - and ultimately spread across the globe - signalized a profound transformation in our relationship to scientific authority, with far-reaching ramifications. Unearthing the spread of this denialist movement through careful archival research, Zafir traces a compelling, untold history and a makes a compelling argument for how the failures of the US government have fostered our modern climate of distrust. THE FLAWLESS by Diana Tourjee (Winter 2027)
The untold story of one of America’s most notorious serial killings and the remarkable drag queen whose boots-on-the-ground detective work revealed the dark underbelly of Houston’s gay elite.
THE LEVERET by Anna Goldreich (Winter 2027)
In which a queer couple grieves the loss of a child late in pregnancy while the woman who carried the child cares for a baby hare, only to face the animal's intractable wildness and the violence it can't help but commit.
JUPITER SAVES! by Nicole White (Spring 2027)
A madcap Willy Wonka for the modern era, about the heirs to a multinational candy empire and the wide cast of characters caught in their orbit as the world counts down to an apocalyptic asteroid impact, featuring a tradwife YouTuber, a reverend forcibly baptizing passersby, a disgraced high school gym teacher, and a semi-feral raccoon.
RAPID ONSET by Charlie Markbreiter
An examination of the anti-trans culture industry and U.S. imperial decline, spanning the War on Terror, the early internet, and our cruel present
BABY by Claudia Ross (Summer 2027)
A Hollywood coming-of-age novel set over a single week, in which a young woman begins working for a celebrity gynecologist and renowned collector of frontier paraphernalia, her mother prepares to be killed off her starring role in a TV series, and her boyfriend is surveilled by a food delivery app.