Notes from the millennial underground

Luke Kennard on Black Bag

Man oh man am I glad to be back author-chatting, reader! It’s a new year, and the Cosmic Cheeto rolodex has yielded a guest roster full of writers I just know you’ll want to meet.

First of the year is Luke Kennard, the coruscatingly funny poet-novelist behind Black Bag, a book about:

• Art in the age of AI

• Angst at the adit of the manosphere

• Why it’s sometimes easier to retreat to a Swedish sawmill of the mind or beneath a black leather bag than face the terror of human vulnerability

Wondering what Dostoevsky’s underground man would have been like if he’d worn flip-flops? Need a nonentity narrative instead of more identity fiction? Sounds like you need to pre-order Black Bag. You will not be disappointed!

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