Jane DeLynn is the author of the widely acclaimed novels Leash, Don Juan in the Village, and Some Do. Her novel Real Estate was named a New York Times Notable Book of the Year. Her work has appeared in The Paris Review, Mademoiselle, Glamour, Harper’s Bazaar, The New York Times, the New York Observer and Tikkun, and she lived in Saudi Arabia as a correspondent for Mirabella and Rolling Stone during the Gulf War. She is also the author of three plays, and wrote the libretto for the children's opera The Monkey Opera, composed by Roger Tréfousse, which premiered at the Brooklyn Academy of Music. She lives in Los Angeles.
Forthcoming
In Thrall
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In Thrall
Jane DeLynn
Nov 2024
In Thrall
Jane DeLynn
Dear Miss Maxfeld . . . What I’m really afraid of is that I am a homosexual human being. I wish you were one too but I don’t think it’s possible there could be so many in one school, do you? Probably there is only one person who is homosexual in one place at one time and that one person (I am afraid) is me . . .
After sixteen-year-old Lynn writes her thirty-seven-year-old English teacher a letter they embark on one of the funniest and saddest love affairs in fiction, shrouded in secrecy and guilt. Set in the year Kennedy was shot, all Lynn knows about “lezbos” is that they wear their hair in crew cuts, buy suits like her father’s, and sprout mustaches over their upper lips. Trying to pass, Lynn continues to neck with her boyfriend and make bigoted jokes with her friends. Feigning innocence with her parents, each night she checks the mirror for tell-tale signs of perversion. Profound, witty, poignant, and highly charged, In Thrall is the first in Jane DeLynn’s trilogy of novels on sexuality and authority. It is as believable in its depiction of a closeted teen as it is heartbreaking.
With an introduction by Colm Tóibín
- 978-1-7395161-6-1
- 21.6 x 13.9 cm
- 280 p.
- Paperback
- November 2024
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Endorsements (3)
Flawless comic timing.
All Lynn’s phobias, aversions and hang-ups make her exaggerated but real . . . The great triumph of this novel is that DeLynn has captured the way adolescents felt, talked, and behaved during the early 1960s.
A dazzlingly gritty exposure of a girlhood experience usually neglected by both private and public consciousness.
Darryl
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Darryl
Jackie Ess
Feb 2025
Darryl
Jackie Ess
Underneath the sharp satire and hilarious sexual irreverence this is a deadly serious book: a brilliant novel of a seeker, like The Pilgrim’s Progress refracted by queer internet culture.
Darryl Cook is a man who seems to have everything: a quiet home, a beautiful wife, and a lot of friends to fuck her while he watches. But as the couple explore the cuckolding lifestyle, Darryl finds himself tugging at threads that threaten to unravel his marriage, his town, and himself.
- 978-1-7395161-7-8
- 21.6 x 13.9 cm
- 184 p.
- Paperback
- February 2025
About the author
Jackie Ess is a writer, cultural mischief-maker and minor internet celebrity. A co-founder of the Bay Area Trans Writers Workshop, her work can be found in Heavy Feather Review, the Zahir, the New Inquiry, Vetch, and the anthology We Want It All: An Anthology of Radical Trans Poetics. Darryl is her first novel.
Property Property Property: Our Political Categories
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Property Property Property: Our Political Categories
Luce deLire
Mar 2025
Property Property Property: Our Political Categories
Luce deLire
A radical transfeminist philosopher of secular infinity, Luce deLire writes that the concepts of liberation we have to hand—respect, freedom, privilege—are condemned by the logic of property and commodity that legitimises their use.
- 978-1-7398431-3-7
- 21.6 x 13.9 cm
- 170 p.
- Paperback
- March 2025
About the author
Luce deLire is a ship with eight sails and she lays off the quay. A time traveller and collector of mediocre jokes by day, when night falls, she turns into a philosopher, performer and media theorist. She loves visual art, installations, video art, etc. She could be seen curating, performing, directing, planning and publishing (on) various events. She is working on and with the philosophy of treason, infinity, post-secularism, self-destruction, fascism and seduction – all in mixed media.
Bourgeois Coldness
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Bourgeois Coldness
(trans. Grace Nissan)
Henrike Kohpeiß
Sep 2025
Bourgeois Coldness
trans. Grace Nissan
Henrike Kohpeiß
- 978-1-7395161-2-3
- 21.6 x 13.9 cm
- 296 p.
- Paperback
- September 2025
About the author
Henrike Kohpeiß is a philosopher working on social and political philosophy, critical theory, affect studies, black studies and feminist philosophy. She is currently a postdoctoral researcher at the CRC 'Affective Societies' at Free University, Berlin. Together with Philipp Wüschner, she hosts a monthly conversations on 'Feelings at the end of the world' at Volksbühne Berlin. Occasionally, she engages in artistic collaborations in dance and performance, mostly as a dramaturge or writer, sometimes as a performer. Bourgeois Coldness is her first book.