After reading dozens of queer nonfiction titles in the process of judging three (!) awards last year, A.V. Marraccini’s WE THE PARASITES was one of two that really stayed with me. It’s a slim volume with an outsized impact, lyrical, probing, fraught with emotions and erotic longing. From the review, which went live on the Gay & Lesbian Review’s blog today:
“To be a critic and to be queer both are exercises in denial, in misplaced longing…” Marraccini supports this sorrowful claim without veering into diary-of-a-sadgirl vibes, because as often as she is torn up over a lover, a text, or Nike of Samothrace (winged, like Lucilia bufonivora, the toadfly, and headless, like the infected toad), she is as often ecstatic about what she is seeing, reading, and feeling.”
Thanks to Richard Schneider and Allison Armijo at the G&LR.
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