Backwardness

From Letters and Notebooks, 1973-2023

von Garielle Lutz

748 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

Backwardness is a selection of heartbreakingly hilarious excerpts from an epistolary and notebook chronicle, spanning half a century, of working-stiff miserabilia and the dark enchantments of life as a misfit. First published in 2024 by SF/LD Books, this is a revised and expanded reissue."Out of those gray middling years of the late twentieth century is etched this unlikely portrait of a genuine queerdo, back before anyone knew what that was-let alone Lutz herself. [ . . . ] Reading this book fundamentally alters one's understanding of the author's short stories, with their self-deprecating narrators erecting exasperatingly droll and verbose linguistic monuments out of the banalities of their everyday lives-and gives us Lutz herself as a character, inherently lovable through the smog of her flaws."-Art Forum"Garielle Lutz is one of America's great writers. Why has her literary genius gone unnoticed?"-The Nation

• Themen: Sprache und Sprachwissenschaft Sprache, allgemein und Nachschlagewerke Schreiben, Technical Writing, Styleguides
• ISBN: 9781940853505
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 01.10.2025
• Größe: 229 x 152 mm
• Verlag: Calamari Press