![]() ![]() Shifting from the narrator’s comedic meditation on the impossibility of cleaning her apartment to Weeks’s unanswered letters to Vivien Leigh and Sylvia Plath, Zipper Mouth‘s fragmentary structure reflects Weeks’s interest in the personal and the private, narrative and context. Burroughs and Kathy Acker, who imagined New York through frenetic literary collage in the decades before her. With Zipper Mouth, Weeks intrepidly challenges writers like William S. ![]() Through e-mails, letters, and monologues, Weeks’s anonymous narrator (who seems to bear some resemblance to Weeks herself) articulates the growing romantic and sexual frustration of her unrequited love for Jane, a straight performance artist. Laurie Weeks’s debut novel, Zipper Mouth (Feminist Press), chronicles drug- and alcohol-fueled navigations of staid temp agencies, filthy downtown apartments, and the everyday banks, bars and streets of 1990s New York. ![]()
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