Scarlett O’Hara, and her later, more bummed-out incarnation, Blanche DuBois. It didn’t seem likely but this was part of the pleasure, like the agony of fixating on a dead movie star the way I’d become obsessed at age fifteen with the long-decomposed actress Vivien Leigh, a.k.a. I wanted her to drop by in the afternoon for a nap. I decided I was in love with this girl and I couldn’t eat, couldn’t sleep. Movie: Of Human Bondage (1934) A clubfooted medical student is infatuated with a woman. The Madness of the Day Movie: Of Human Bondage “ Zipper Mouth is a brilliant rabbit hole of pitch-black hilarity, undead obsession, the horror of the everyday, and drug, drugs, drugs.” -Michelle Tea, co-founder of SisterSpit Read moreĪs reason returned to me, memory came with it, and I saw that even on the worst days, when I thought I was utterly and completely miserable, I was nevertheless, and nearly all the time, extremely happy. “The book’s pulse is evident on every page.” ( Lambda Literary) Chosen by Dave Eggers as Best American Nonrequired Reading and a winner of the 2012 Lambda Literary Awards, this novel encapsulates the soaring highs and gritty lows of the junkie and the reckless intensity of love. Strung out on dope and unrequited love for her straight best friend, Jane, the novel’s unnamed narrator zig-zags between glimpses of her childhood and early teens to the raw, super-caffeinated world of her present on the streets of New York. Written in the brash, fervent voice of the young and addicted, this debut novel from underground superstar Laurie Weeks “is a short tome of infinitesimal reach, a tiny star to light the land” (Eileen Myles). This novel of a young lesbian addict in ’ 90s NYC “recalls Naked Lunch” with “dreamy, impressionistic, and rapturous” prose-“an ecstatic love story” ( Publishers Weekly).

Zipper mouth by laurie weeks