Alissa Nutting

In Alissa Nutting’s novel Tampa, Celeste Price, a smoldering 26-year-old middle-school teacher in Florida, unrepentantly recounts her elaborate and sociopathically determined seduction of a 14-year-old student. Celeste has chosen and lured the charmingly modest Jack Patrick into her web. Jack is enthralled and in awe of his eighth-grade teacher, and, most importantly, willing to accept Celeste’s terms for a secret relationship—car rides after dark, rendezvous at Jack’s house while his single father works the late shift, and body-slamming erotic encounters in Celeste’s empty classroom. In slaking her sexual thirst, Celeste Price is remorseless and deviously free of hesitation, a monstress of pure motivation. She deceives everyone, is close to no one, and cares little for anything but her pleasure. Tampa is a sexually explicit, virtuosically satirical, American Psycho–esque rendering of a monstrously misplaced but undeterrable desire. Laced with black humor and crackling sexualized prose, Alissa Nutting’s Tampa is a grand, seriocomic examination of the want behind student / teacher affairs and a scorching literary debut.

A Novel

Tampa

From one of our most exciting and provocative young writers, a poignant, riotously funny story of how far some will go for love—and how far some will go to escape it. Hazel has just moved into a trailer park of senior citizens, with her father and Diane—his extremely lifelike sex doll—as her roommates. Life with Hazel’s father is strained at best, but her only alternative seems even bleaker. She’s just run out on her marriage to Byron Gogol, CEO and founder of Gogol Industries, a monolithic corporation hell-bent on making its products and technologies indispensable in daily life. For over a decade, Hazel put up with being veritably quarantined by Byron in the family compound, her every movement and vital sign tracked. But when he demands to wirelessly connect the two of them via brain chips in a first-ever human “mind-meld,” Hazel decides what was once merely irritating has become unbearable. The world she escapes into is a far cry from the dry and clinical bubble she’s been living in, a world populated with a whole host of deviant oddballs. As Hazel tries to carve out a new life for herself in this uncharted territory, Byron is using the most sophisticated tools at his disposal to find her and bring her home. His threats become more and more sinister, and Hazel is forced to take drastic measures in order to find a home of her own and free herself from Byron’s virtual clutches once and for all. Perceptive and compulsively readable, Made for Love is at once an absurd, raunchy comedy and a dazzling, profound mediation on marriage, monogamy, and family.

Made for Love

Fiction. Winner of the 6th Starcherone Prize for Innovative Fiction, chosen by Ben Marcus. In this darkly hilarious debut collection, misfit women and girls in every strata of society are investigated through various ill-fated jobs. One is the main course of dinner, another the porn star contracted to copulate in space for a reality TV show. They become futuristic ant farms, get knocked up by the star high school quarterback and have secret abortions, use parakeets to reverse amputations, make love to garden gnomes, go into air conditioning ducts to confront their mother's ghost, and do so in settings that range from Hell to the local white-supremacist bowling alley. "These fine stories, anthropologically thorough in their view of the contemporary person, illuminate how people hide behind their pursuits, concealing what matters most to them while striving, and usually failing, to be loved"--Ben Marcus.

Unclean Jobs for Women and Girls

Myriam Gurba

SJ Sindu

Maame Blue

Sam Cohen

Venita Blackburn

Anna Dorn

Marisa Crane

Aurora Mattia

Priya Guns

Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya

Soula Emmanuel

Temim Fruchter

Myriam Lacroix

Kristel Emma Buckley

Molly Llewellyn with Emily Austin

francesca ekwuyasi

A follow-up to their runaway success Peach Pit: Sixteen Stories of Unsavory Women, editors Molly Llewellyn and Kristel Buckley return with Be Gay, Do Crime, a celebration of queer chaos from an all-queer author lineup featuring Myriam Gurba, Emily Austin, Alissa Nutting, and Francesca Ekwuyasi

A trans woman makes increasingly frequent hoax calls to a business where she's had a negative experience, watching the consequences with perverse joy. A group of aging queers turns to bank robbery to stop the sale of their bungalow complex to a development company. As the president prepares to give a speech, two women lurk among the journalists, ready to shoot him. And an aspiring author takes to stealing items from strangers’ homes in a kind of cosmic redistribution each time one of her relationships fail.

In sixteen brilliant, wild-eyed stories, Be Gay, Do Crime delivers a celebration and reckoning of why queer people turn to crime–unintentionally, as a means of survival, as protest, as rescue, or to right injustices big and small.

Sixteen Stories of Queer Chaos

Be Gay, Do Crime

Ant Colony

Celeste Price, 26 ans, est professeure dans un lycée de la banlieue de Tampa. Elle est mariée à Ford, un policier. Mais Celeste est tourmentée par son goût particulier pour les adolescents. Elle décide de passer à l'acte et séduit un de ses élèves. Elle entre ainsi dans un engrenage infernal aux conséquences terribles. Premier roman.--[Memento].

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Tampa (Preview Edition)

„Scrisă impecabil, plină de referințe culturale și foarte inteligentă… o carte extrem de îndrăzneață." – Daily Beast „Pe cât de fascinantă, pe atât de tulburătoare." – NewYorkmagazine.com Celeste Price are 26 de ani, este frumoasă, deșteaptă și măritată cu un bărbat chipeș și bogat. Când începe să predea engleza la un liceu din Tampa, secretul ei întunecat iese la iveală. Are o singură obsesie sexuală: băieții la pubertate. După începerea anului școlar, Celeste îl alege pentru jocul ei sexual pe Jack Patrick, un licean liniștit și gânditor, căzut în admirația profesoarei sale. Când frenezia ei sexuală scapă de sub control, nimfomana Celeste ocolește fiecare obstacol cu istețime și nerușinare pentru a-și îndeplini unicul scop: propria plăcere. Lecții periculoase este o explorare senzuală și seriocomică, în stil American Psycho, a relației uneori complicate dintre profesori și elevi. „Scriitura este excelentă, autoarea are umor negru și e sarcastică. Celeste este un personaj senzual și amuzant." – Entertainment Weekly „Una dintre cele mai șocante lecturi, dar și una dintre cele mai surprinzătoare și acaparatoare. Alissa Nutting a scris o carte brutală, uimitoare." – Shelf Awareness „Un roman ambițios din punct de vedere literar și moral. Plin de umor negru dezlănțuit, observații inteligente la adresa culturii de consum și a obsesiilor care o susțin: tinerețea și frumusețea." – Cleveland Plain Dealer „O carte extrem de antrenantă, absolut șocantă – o poveste care ispitește și tachinează cititorii să cedeze oricărui gen de imoralitate." – BOMB „O lectură antrenantă… Alissa Nutting se pricepe." – New York Times „O carte curajoasă." – TIME

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