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Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl by Andrea Lawlor on Lena Dunham’s and Lenny Staff’s summer reading list. I’m so looking forward to hosting @anderlawlor next weekend here at Bloodhouse in Bellows Falls. In the words of @theloveartist : “a series of the semi-miraculous” #therewillbecake #paultakestheformofamortalgirl #andrealawlor @rescuepress #rescuepress #ilovebellowsfalls

Invitations to Andrea Lawlor’s reading at Bloodhouse Sunday June 10th have arrived! Message me with your address to get on the mailing list and receive event details. Here’s what The New Yorker has to say about Lawlor’s novel “Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl” The shape-shifting protagonist of this sex-filled magic-realist novel, twenty-two-year-old Paul Polydoris, belongs to “all the genders,” able to change his body at will. Exploring the malleability of gender and desire, and paying homage to Virginia Woolf’s “Orlando,” the book follows Paul—sometimes Polly—as s/he searches for love and the “uncontaminated truest” self. The quest leads through New York City at the height of the aids crisis, Iowa City’s queer punk scene, off-season Provincetown, a womyn’s festival in Michigan, and, finally, San Francisco. Lawlor successfully mixes pop culture, gender theory, and smut, but the great achievement here is that Paul is no mere symbol but a vibrantly yearning being, “like everybody else, only more so.” #andrealawlor #paultakestheformofamortalgirl #rescuepress #fencemagazine #bloodhouse #gothictea #therewillbecake #literaryvermont #bellowsfalls #lydiabloodhouse

Welcome back. Longer days means it’s time to wake up Bloodhouse: a series of the semi-miraculous in Bellows Falls, Vermont. Doors open on a Sunday in April with the magnificent poet & performer Stella Corso followed by a rather excessive, gothic tea. Invitations & details by old fashioned mail only. Message me or dispatch mailing address to [email protected]. #bloodhouseevents #bloodhouse2018 #lydiabloodhouse #secretproject #literaryvermont #houseconcertmeetsreadingmeetsgothictea #ilovebellowsfalls #stellacorso #tantrum #rescuepress #poetry #andrealawlor #vermontgothic #therewillbecake