SHAME

by Wolfe Margolies Foreword by Lydia LunchIllustrated by Karolina Urbaniak & Wolfe MargoliesWith an interview conducted by Martin Bladh Softbound with flaps, 194 pages, I love Wolfe Margolies’s writing. The vehemence, roughshod poetry, and its sense of having needed to exist recalls French literary scourges like Guyotat, Celine and Genet. At the same time his writing has an impassioned “anyone could do this” clarity and a beseeching tenderness that’s distinctly American and totally his. SHAME is a novel that could inspire readers to be writers and writers to be great writers.—Dennis Cooper​SHAME is truly fantastic. A philosophical purging of a young pervert’s darkest obsessions.—Lydia Lunch SHAME is not your enemy. SHAME aids survival, incentivizing you to blend in, thereby concealing yourself from predators and avoiding conflict with peers, while pride aids reproduction, motivating you to stand out, thereby attracting mates. Evolution did not design you to be happy, only to behave