This Young Monster - by Charlie Fox (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br><p><em>This Young Monster</em> is a hallucinatory celebration of artists who raise hell, transform their bodies, anger their elders and show their audience dark, disturbing things.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p>This Young Monster</em> is a hallucinatory celebration of artists who raise hell, transform their bodies, anger their elders and show their audience dark, disturbing things. What does it mean to be a freak? Why might we be wise to think of the present as a time of monstrosity? And how does the concept of the monster irradiate our thinking about queerness, disability, children and adolescents? From Twin Peaks</em> to Leigh Bowery, Harmony Korine to Alice in Wonderland</em>, This Young Monster</em> gets high on a whole range of riotous art as its voice and form shape-shift, all in the name of dealing with the strange wonders of what Nabokov once called 'monsterhood'. Ready or not, here they come...</p><p/><br></br><p><b> From the Back Cover </b></p></br></br><i>This Young Monster</i> is a hallucinatory celebration of artists who raise hell, transform their bodies, anger their elders and show their audience dark, disturbing things. What does it mean to be a freak? Why might we be wise to think of the present as a time of monstrosity? And how does the concept of the monster irradiate our thinking about queerness, disability, children and adolescents? From <i>Twin Peaks</i> to Leigh Bowery, Harmony Korine to Alice in Wonderland, <i>This Young Monster</i> gets high on a whole range of riotous art as its voice and form shape-shift, all in the name of dealing with the strange wonders of what Nabokov once called 'monsterhood'. Ready or not, here they come...<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br><p>'<em>This Young Monster</em> is a hybrid animal in its own right, suturing biographical essays with stranger things: a "dumb fan letter" to the Beast, a meandering confession from Alice, bombed out after her many years in Wonderland. ...There's not enough of this sort of playfulness and frank enthusiasm in art criticism.'<br> -- Olivia Laing, <em>New Statesman</em></p><br><br><p>'A performance as original and audacious as any of the characters within - it crackles off the page, roaring and clawing its way into the world, powered by a brilliant vagabond electricity.'<br> -- Chloe Aridjis, author of <em>Book of Clouds</em><br> </p><br><br><p>'A Rimbaud-like moonbeam in written form.' <br> -- Bruce Hainley, author of <em>Under the Sign of [sic]</em></p><br><br><p>'Charlie Fox is a ferociously gifted critic, whose prose, like a punk Walter Pater's, attains pure flame. Fox's sentences, never "matchy-matchy", clash with orthodoxy; I love how extravagantly he leaps between different cultural climes, and how intemperately - and with what impressive erudition! - he pledges allegiance to perversity. Take <em>This Young Monster </em>with you to a desert island; his bons mots will supply you with all the protein you need.'<br> -- Wayne Koestenbaum, author of <em>Humiliation</em></p><br><br><p>'Charlie Fox writes about scary and fabulous monsters, but he really writes about culture, which is the monster's best and only escape. He is a dazzling writer, unbelievably erudite, and this book is a pleasure to read. Fox's essays spin out across galaxies of knowledge. Domesticating the difficult, he invites us as his readers to become monsters as well.'<br> -- Chris Kraus, author of <em>I Love Dick</em></p><br><br><p>'My friend Bruce Hainley had told me about a new book coming out called "This Young Monster," by Charlie Fox, but I had forgotten all about it until the publisher Fitzcarraldo Editions in London sent me this beautifully designed French-flap-style paperback original. Good God, where did this wise-beyond-his-years 25-year-old critic's voice come from? His breath of proudly putrefied air is really something to behold. Finally, a new Parker Tyler is on the scene. Yep. Mr. Fox is the real thing.'<br> -- John Waters, <em>New York Times</em></p><br><br><p>'Surreal and provocative, <em>This Young Monster</em> is both a poignant portrayal of life on the margins, and a joyful salute to a group of people who embraced their misfit status to lead beautifully unconventional lives.'<br> -- Lucy Watson, <em>Financial Times</em></p><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><p>Charlie Fox is a writer who lives in London. He was born in 1991. His work has appeared in many publications including frieze</em>, Cabinet</em>, Sight & Sound</em>, ArtReview</em>, The Wire</em> and The White Review</em>.</p>
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