Zipper Mouth by Weeks, Laurie

Laurie Weeks

Zipper Mouth

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In this extraordinary debut novel, Laurie Weeks captures the freedom and longing of life on the edge in New York City. Ranting letters to Judy...

In this extraordinary debut novel, Laurie Weeks captures the freedom and longing of life on the edge in New York City. Ranting letters to Judy Davis and Sylvia Plath, an unrequited fixation on a straight best friend, exalted nightclub epiphanies, devastating morning-after hangovers — Zipper Mouth chronicles the exuberance and mortification of a junkie, and transcends the chaos of everyday life.

WINNER OF A 2012 LAMBDA LITERARY AWARD

Selected by Dave Eggers for Best American Nonrequired Reading.

"Laurie Weeks' Zipper Mouth is a short tome of infinitesimal reach, a tiny star to light the land." —Eileen Myles, author of Inferno

"Zipper Mouth is a brilliant rabbit hole of pitch-black hilarity, undead obsession, the horror of the everyday, and drugs drugs drugs." —Michelle Tea, co-founder of Sister Spit

Award: Lambda Literary Awards - Winner
Award: Triangle Awards - Finalist

Laurie Weeks has been an underground superstar in the New York downtown writing world since the 1980s. Her fiction and other writings have been published in The Baffler, Vice, Nest, Index, LA Weekly, and Semiotext(e)'s The New Fuck You. She has taught in writing programs at UC San Diego and The New School, and has toured the US with the girl-punk group Sister Spit.

Genre
Fiction
Pages
144
Publisher
Feminist Press
Publication Date
October 4, 2011
ISBN
9781558617483

Tags: Award winner, Book, Fiction, Gay, Humorous, Lesbian, Literary