Scenes from the Underground

By Gabriel Cholette

Book Overview

Finalist, Writers Trust Dayne Ogilvie Prize for LGBTQ2S+ Emerging Writers

I have just heard for the first time the expression "to make soup" it means to mix the bottom-of-the-pocket drugs of everyone huddled in the club toilet stall, opened MD, ketamine, old dry speed, crushed e pills, to make big lines that will let us forget the past forty-eight hours that have been so difficult.

In Instagram-style vignettes that span Montreal, New York, and Berlin, our narrator -- a doctoral student in medieval studies -- leads us through the bathrooms and back rooms of clubs and raves as he explores the sex, drugs, and music that define queer nightlife.

Accompanied by Jacob Pyne's full-colour illustrations, which perfectly punctuate the narrator's occasional self-destructive melancholy, Scenes from the Underground delivers the fully uninhibited field notes of the club scene.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1487010753
• ISBN13: 9781487010751
• Release Date: October 2022
• Publisher: Arachnide Editions
• Length: 168 Pages
• Weight: 0.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.0"