Backwardness: From Letters and Notebooks, 1973-2023

By Garielle Lutz

Backwardness is a selection of heartbreakingly hilarious excerpts from an epistolary and notebook chronicle, spanning half a century, of working-stiff miserabilia and the dark enchantments of life as a misfit. First published in 2024 by SF/LD Books, this is a revised and expanded reissue.

"Out of those gray middling years of the late twentieth century is etched this unlikely portrait of a genuine queerdo, back before anyone knew what that was-let alone Lutz herself. . . . ] Reading this book fundamentally alters one's understanding of the author's short stories, with their self-deprecating narrators erecting exasperatingly droll and verbose linguistic monuments out of the banalities of their everyday lives-and gives us Lutz herself as a character, inherently lovable through the smog of her flaws."-Art Forum

"Garielle Lutz is one of America's great writers. Why has her literary genius gone unnoticed?"-The Nation

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1940853508
• ISBN13: 9781940853505
• Release Date: March 2024
• Publisher: Calamari Press
• Length: 748 Pages
• Weight: 2.17 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"