{"product_id":"my-dead-book","title":"My Dead Book","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cspan class=\"font-size-12 lh-1\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"lh-1 font-size-18\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"lh-1 font-size-20\"\u003eMy Dead Book is a novel composed of nonlinear vignettes and fragments about a queer man approaching his fiftieth birthday who is haunted by insomnia and his past. In the dead of night, he remembers his friends who died in the late 1980s and 1990s, his years as a teenage throwaway and sex worker, and ruminates on working class survival, queer aging, AIDS, and whether he has outlived his place in the world.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"font-size-12 lh-1\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"lh-1 font-size-18\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"lh-1 font-size-20\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cspan class=\"font-size-12 lh-1\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"lh-1 font-size-18\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"lh-1 font-size-20\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cspan class=\"font-size-20 lh-1\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"lh-1\"\u003e“My Dead Book by Nate Lippens is the most electrifying thing I’ve read in a long time, a poetic, compressed novella about queer loss and addiction that reminded me of Gary Indiana and William Burroughs.” \u003c\/span\u003e— Olivia Laing, author of The Lonely City\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cspan class=\"font-size-20 lh-1\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cspan class=\"font-size-20 lh-1\"\u003e“What a blistering book—with My Dead Book, Nate Lippens has created something truly fucking great. It's as if the storied stars of Lou Reed's 'Walk on the Wild Side' overshot Manhattan and wound up in Wisconsin, broke and blue with cold and depressed beyond belief by the thought that this nowhere is now home. It's a bitter pill, but I love bitterness, and who doesn't love pills?”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cspan class=\"font-size-20 lh-1\"\u003e— Derek McCormack, author of Castle Faggot\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cspan class=\"font-size-20 lh-1\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cspan class=\"font-size-20 lh-1\"\u003e“There’s no doubt to this book. You’d think that was a flaw but it’s been burned away. My Dead Book is not short though it is brief. It’s loving, bittersweet, and actually courageous because it tells a story that is slightly unbearable because it’s all secret, awful hard bad secrets and funny as hell. Nate’s balancing act works because the heart of it (this novel) is true even though it’s often heartless. It’s simple. He knows what things are worth. When you need the sea or a bird they’re there like they never were before.”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cspan class=\"font-size-20 lh-1\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cspan class=\"font-size-20 lh-1\"\u003e— Eileen Myles, author of Chelsea Girls\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cspan class=\"font-size-20 lh-1\"\u003ePaperback.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Nate lippens","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56884814872954,"sku":null,"price":14.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0003\/6778\/8068\/files\/7AB306D8-E3E7-4C6C-983B-7E8805AAB09B.jpg?v=1778679469","url":"https:\/\/raremags.co.uk\/products\/my-dead-book","provider":"Rare Mags","version":"1.0","type":"link"}