My Dead Book

“A perfect book, from the first line to the last. My Dead Book is the most electrifying thing I’ve read in a long time, a poetic, compressed novella about queer loss and addiction that reminded me of Gary Indiana and William Burroughs.”—Olivia Laing, The Guardian“A satellite of weary, tender doom, in the Midwest amidst the specter of AIDS and the culture wars.”—Kate Zambreno, BOMB

Nate Lippens’s My Dead Book was a finalist for the Republic of Consciousness Prize. His second novel, Ripcord, will be published in 2024 by Semiotext(e) (US) and Pilot Press (UK). His fiction has appeared in the anthologies Little Birds (2021), Responses to Derek Jarman’s Blue (Pilot Press, 2022), and Pathetic Literature, edited by Eileen Myles (2022).

Eileen Myles (they/them, b. 1949) is a poet, novelist, and art journalist whose practice of vernacular first-person writing has made them one of the most recognized writers of their generation. Pathetic Literature, which they edited, came out in Fall of 2022. a “Working Life”, their newest collection of poems, is out now. They live in New York & in Marfa, TX.