Tickets include a copy of Quietly Hostile shipped to you. Also, I’m doing a zoom event with her so click here for details and join us. Quietly Hostile by Samantha Irby – Literally the funniest lady I know has a new book coming out and it’s fried gold. Need more to get you through the month? Some of the best May books I’ve read: McGill.Ī subversive, feminist, queer spin-off of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein set in the 1850s and narrated by Mary Frankenstein, Victor Frankenstein’s great- niece. As soon as I finished the first chapter (pikachu serial killer…’nuff said) I was like, omg this is the book.Īnd our Nightmares from Nowhere Book Club selection is Our Hideous Progeny by C.E. It’s quirky, funny, terrifying, heartening, thrilling, infuriating, inspiring. Short description? I was going to say “Queer con-artist teams up with sex-workers and bad-ass Vegas misfits to fight serial killers in this psychological thriller…but also funny?” but I don’t think I’m doing it justice so in case you’re not already convinced, here’s the beginning: “She escaped a serial killer. I am a few days behind on telling you what books you should read and what authors you should come see (hello, David Sedaris and Samantha Irby) but my kid is graduating from high school in a few weeks and that means time is moving in fast-forward and I am utterly unprepared to handle this emotional transition which is both a bittersweet relief and absolute agony.īut if you are also going through it at the moment (whatever “it” is) I have the perfect distraction, in the form of this month’s Fantastic Strangelings book club pick… Killing Meby Michelle Gagnon.

Broken by Jenny Lawson