Book release and signing with Anton Solomonik for Realistic Fiction, a story collection published by LittlePuss Press.
About the book:
A BOOK FOR MEN!
Have you ever engaged in totally normal male behavior like:
Stealing porn magazines?
Hooking up with guys on Grindr?
Attempting to work in an open-pit mine despite having no relevant job experience?
Crossdressing as a woman?
Attending Gnostic Mass?
Running for government office?
Then this is a book for you!
It is definitely not a deeply felt collection of transsexual short stories, engaged in dissident metaphysical investigation of the normative tenets of gender in our society! Bro, how could you say that? It is very dramatic and exciting, yes, but it is not metaphysical at all. In fact, it is Realistic Fiction.
As if Charlie Chaplin re-wrote the works of Kafka, and he was a Russian trans man, Anton Solomonik brings a funny, heartbreaking, and startlingly unique new voice to contemporary short fiction.
PRAISE FOR REALISTIC FICTION
"Anton Solomonik’s stories are mordant, caustic, unyielding and outrageously funny. As they sound the endless ad absurdum of the human condition - human selves inside their given human bodies, like either of ‘em or not - and as they unceremoniously toss every stripe of piety, conformism, and posturing straight into the acid bath - they reverberate with a brilliant and steadfast, backhanded humanism. That is to say, Realistic Fiction is a grand and electrifying read.”?
—Paul Harding, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Tinkers
"What does it mean to be understood? My heart overflows at this long-awaited story collection, which blends Sonic the Hedgehog aesthetics with the exacting interior investigations of a trans Thomas Mann, and which answers that question through unforgettable narrators who passionately strive to become less than they are, and who fail."
—Jeanne Thornton, Lambda Award-winning author of Summer Fun and A/S/L
About the author:
Anton Solomonik is a writer and illustrator living in Brooklyn, NY. He’s the co-host of the World Transsexual Forum, an open mic series for trans writers. His work has been described as "whimsical, yet heavy-handed.”
Anton Solomonik will be in conversation with Luke Sutherland.
Luke Sutherland is a multi-genre writer and library worker. His debut chapbook Distance Sequence won the OutWrite 2023 Chapbook Contest in Nonfiction and was published by Neon Hemlock Press in 2024. He was a finalist for the Larry Neal Writers’ Award, the Black Warrior Review Flash Contest, and the SmokeLong Quarterly Award for Flash Fiction. He is an editor at smoke + mold and the DC trans micropress Lilac Peril. You can find him online as @lukejsuth.
About the publisher:
LittlePuss Press is a feminist press run by trans women. We believe in printing on paper, intensive editing, and throwing lots of parties.
Accessibility note: This event is up two flights of stairs and Lost City Books does not have an elevator. Please contact events@lostcitybookstore.com with questions.
Dato de accesibilidad: Este evento toma lugar en el segundo piso y Lost City Books no tiene ascensor. Favor de contactar events@lostcitybookstore.com con cualquiera duda.