Iphgenia Baal

''Utterly absorbing and standout tales... Baal's witty and unconventional prose will hook you in right from the start.' – Cosmopolitan Man Hating Psycho is the caustic new collection of stories from visionary writer Iphgenia Baal. Interrogating the disconnect between our public identities and real-life selves, Baal exposes the inherent duplicity of online communication. Text messages relaying deep personal crisis are nothing more than an annoyance, WhatsApp takedowns of wide-eyed left-wingers unfold at breakneck speed, friendships that seem set in stone disintegrate at the first hint of sex, the language of love degraded as life becomes more and more transactional. With black and disquieting humour, thirteen playful texts disparage the highly-profitable superstitions that are the scaffolding of our current social order. Man Hating Psycho lays bare the trappings of modern life, whilst putting the short story form through a literary mincer.. 'An extraordinary voice, and if you want to understand what happens next in modern writing, you'd do well to listen to it. A revelation.' – Alan Moore

Man Hating Psycho

Mercedes Benz is a dysfunctional love affair strung out over SMS, BBM, email and Facebook. Set in a barely credible 2011 London, Iphgenia Baals third novel, edited by cult author Stewart Home, describes a world where Bow E3s high-rise estates are no longer the Ends, awful art parties do little to dispel 1990s nostalgia and downward mobility proves to be a much more intoxicating drug than heroin. If the story told here isnt a tragedy, love is dead! Iphgenia Baal, a London-based writer (and formerly a journalist) has been published in Smoke: A London Peculiar, The White Review, and The Milan Review. She has also self-published two zines: The Gentle Art of Tramping and No! No! No! No! No! No! No! In 2011, Baal was nominated for the Granta Young British Novelist award for her first book, The Hardy Tree.

Merced Es Benz

An account of a dysfunctional love affair, narrated via SMS, email, Facebook and Google search results, act as a body of circumstantial evidence, betraying a 'real' intimacy behind a messy social media scandal that spilled into tabloid coverage. Told against a backdrop of a pre-Olympic London where east London's awful art parties, populated by the debased progeny of the rich and famous, do little to dispel 90s rave nostalgia, Iphgenia Baal's non-fiction novel balances at the intersection of death, mourning, and Facebook.

Death & Facebook

A collection of short stories, this is a book about folk devils: creatures at war with respectable society and the conventions on which respectable society is based. It can also be read as a heartrending account of the permanent degradation of men of great talent due to persistent lack of self-control--often indistinguishable from madness. Gentle Art's diminutive dimensions echo the intent of early devotional literature--an almost disposable object, designed for personal edification and spiritual formation. Referencing Stephen Graham's 1927 work, The Gentle Art of Tramping--a manual for life on the other side--Gentle Art is a departure from standard experimental literature. Its aim is not to be difficult. Kidnapping personas from real life (marvellous George, the petrol-drinker, the ket-head with a woman for a cock and many more!) and entering them into absurd formatting--from Choose Your Own Adventure to a compilation of quotes footnoting the entire text--Baal's stories demonstrate how and why people slip beyond the norms of society and report back on what lies in store when they get there--From Amazon.com.

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