Sarah Schulman

The Mere Future Sparkling with wit and provocative social commentary, Sarah Schulman’s new novel crosses many genres, including literary fiction, mystery, fantasy, poetry and stand-up comedy. In her dystopian vision, New York has morphed into an idealized version of itself. Rent is cheap, homelessness ... (more)is over, and everyone works in Marketing. Despite the utopian surface, however, there is a disturbing malaise that infects the population. Meanwhile our heroine and her girlfriend, Nadine, just want to fall in love again, but can’t help noticing that the social packaging may not be recyclable. Schulman (People in Trouble, Rat Bohemia) is one of literature’s most important chroniclers of contemporary queer life. In The Mere Future, she invents a literature that is at once sexy and funny, while openheartedly reflecting the lives we live.

The Mere Future Sparkling with wit and provocative social commentary, Sarah Schulman’s new novel crosses many genres, including literary fiction, mystery, fantasy, poetry, and stand-up comedy. In her dystopian vision, New York has morphed into an “idealized” version of itself. Rent is cheap, homelessness ... (more)is over, and everyone works in marketing. Despite the utopian surface, however, there is a disturbing malaise that infects the population. Meanwhile our heroine and her girlfriend just want to fall in love again, but can’t help noticing that the social packaging may not be recyclable. Schulman (People in Trouble, Rat Bohemia) is one of literature’s most important chroniclers of contemporary queer life. In The Mere Future, she invents a literature that is at once sexy and funny, while openheartedly reflecting the lives we live. We’ll also be celebrating the release of Schulman’s new book of non-fiction, Ties That Bind: Familial Homophobia and Its Consequences.

Author and journalist Sarah Schulman will be appearing at Books Inc. Market for a reading and signing of her new novel “The Child.”

“The Child,” a Lambda Literary Award finalist, is the eleventh and perhaps most controversial book by acclaimed lesbian writer Sarah Schulman, available for ... (more)the first time in paperback. This novel explores the parameters of queer teen sexuality against a backdrop of hysteria and sanctioned homophobia, based on the 1997 sexual assault and murder of an eleven-year-old boy by a fifteen-year-old.
Stew is a lonely teen who discovers love on an adult website. But when his older boyfriend is arrested in an Internet pedophilia sting, his proclivities are revealed to his family and friends, to his horror. Devastated by these revelations and left to fend for himself, he ends up committing murder.

Brazen and daring in its themes, "The Child" is a powerful indictment of sex panic in America, and a plaintive meditation on isolation and desire.

About the author:
Sarah Schulman is the author of eleven books, including eight novels, the latest being The Child (2006). As a journalist, her essays have appeared in The New York Times, The Nation, and Interview. She has won a Guggenheim Fellowship and two American Library Association Gay & Lesbian Book Awards. She lives in New York.

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Join acclaimed author and playwright Sarah Schulman for a reading and celebration of the re-release of her novel "Rat Bohemia" and the publication of her latest novel "The Child." Schulman's writing is brimming with wicked, urban humor and with haunting meditations on the prejudices surrounding lesbian ... (more)and gay lives.

Arsenal Pulp Press and the Oscar Wilde Bookshop are hosting Sarah Schulman and the relaunch of her classic book...Rat Bohemia.