My Dead BookA rumination on survival, queer aging, and estrangement that was a finalist for the Republic of Consciousness Prize. My dead friends are back. I lie in bed at night and see them. Haunted by insomnia and the past as he approaches his fiftieth birthday, the narrator of My Dead Book 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,

influencing everything from underground record labels to DIY T-shirts

rejections

a star model played by Dorothy McGowan (model for Vogue in the 1960s)

and for people who can’t afford one

and level the surrounding jungle

Perfect bound

“The Infinite Jest of climate books

reclusive world of psychoanalysis and to report to us

written alongside the interview

Derrick May

and deepen the sense of our lives

artificial life