Sunday, August 04, 2019
From Outwrite DC 2019: previews of "Mostly Dead Things" and "Disease"
I visited OutwriteDC Saturday (14th and U St NW
Washington) for two hours.
There was a science-fiction-horror reading session in the “living
room” with the view of U St.
Unfortunately the group's website doesn’t have all the program details. There were four or five authors, mostly trans
or female. There was one author from
Minneapolis (where I lived 1997-2003). The best reading was the last one, a heterosexual
erotica where the woman has set up physical traps, which prostitutes in Vietnam
actually did during the Vietnam war (yes, I did hear about this when I was in
the Army 1968-1970, a preview of gays in the military.)
Then I went to Kristen Harnett’s session in the “dining room”.
She talked about her experience getting caught in a power
failure while in Wisconsin.
I bought her novel “Mostly Dead Things”, 356 pages, Tinhouse
press, hardcover. The novel appears to
be a dark comedy about a woman whose father runs a taxidermy shop, and her
misadventures when he suddenly commits a very public suicide.
I bought another book “Disease”, by Hans M. Hisrchi, from
Beaten Track Publishing, paper, 204 pages. The author lost his mother to Alzheimer’s. But the book is a first person fictional
account of a man in a same-sex marriage who gradually slips away to Alzheimer’s,
with an afterword from the husband. It’s pretty hard to imagine what your
consciousness is during the end but I will find out when I read it. I could
imagine the same concept with ALS; a cousin
died of it in early 2018.
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