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meganmilks's review
4.0
many of these stories are interested in bodily orifices, the enactment of violence upon. unsurprising since it's edited by dennis cooper. i borrowed this from andrea, who is awesome, a while ago. pretty radical overall.
invertible_hulk's review
2.0
A decent, if highly uneven, anthology of 'edgy' queer writing -- circa 1991. I skipped through a lot of it, read some of it, and even finished a few pieces.
Most of the work here hasn't aged too gracefully, but it's interesting to see what was thought to be 'edgy' and 'arty' and whatnot at that time. A time when I was still wrapped up in the Fear Street saga, and whatever other drivel I was reading then.
It's also amusing to read pieces from such unknown upstarts as Dorothy Allison, Alison Bechdel, and David Sedaris (such 'edgy' writers who are now household names: Allison's Bastard Out of Carolina is required reading in many schools, Bechdel's Fun Home was Time magazine's book of the year in 2005, and middle America worships the ground that Sedaris walks on); there are few other contributors whose names I recognized -- like Vaginal Davis -- but most of them have remained in obscurity.
Most of the work here hasn't aged too gracefully, but it's interesting to see what was thought to be 'edgy' and 'arty' and whatnot at that time. A time when I was still wrapped up in the Fear Street saga, and whatever other drivel I was reading then.
It's also amusing to read pieces from such unknown upstarts as Dorothy Allison, Alison Bechdel, and David Sedaris (such 'edgy' writers who are now household names: Allison's Bastard Out of Carolina is required reading in many schools, Bechdel's Fun Home was Time magazine's book of the year in 2005, and middle America worships the ground that Sedaris walks on); there are few other contributors whose names I recognized -- like Vaginal Davis -- but most of them have remained in obscurity.
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