Sex Goblin - Lauren Cook

Sex Goblin

By: Lauren Cook

Paperback | 1 October 2024

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A weird, wild ride across non-narrative vignettes and dryly funny aphorisms exploring the shared intensity of violence and the erotic. As if hauled up squirming from deep within the bowels of the internet, Lauren Cook metabolizes sex writing, popular culture, autofiction, and scenes of childhood development to present the real and the imagined as equally surreal possibilities. At turns charming and bizarre, Sex Goblin channels sexual violence through the lens of the absurd to alchemize shame and abuse into something that registers differently than trauma. In the childlike voice of the narrator, all things become both mundane and deeply strange--the shared body of a child and their dog having been fused after a car accident, moments of tenderness within frat rush hazing, parents, witches, lovers, and hiking accidents. Sex Goblin is a barely factual but deeply felt field guide to relationships and relatability.
Industry Reviews
"Maybe it's transsexual Ovidian Metamorphoses: a voice that always has a cock or pussy at just the right moment for the story, whether that consists of a dog-human chimera emerging from a terrible car accident, a witch turning a man into underwear, a lesbian tryst with a softball player, an after-workout blowjob, a poppers PSA, a frat hazing, and so on." -Coco Klockner, The Whitney Review


"[A] virtuosic deployment of first-person narrative and literary craftsmanship. . . That it's funny almost hides that it's impressive, that we've gone from autofiction dupe to gory slapstick to mangled symbology." -Charlie Markbreiter, 4Columns


"Sex Goblin asserts the importance of individual experience apart from its larger, societal context... Cook encourages us to stand shamelessly alone, owning whatever is wild and dull and stupid about us." -Gianni Washington, The Chicago Review of Books


"Lauren Cook's Sex Goblin, newly out from Nightboat Books, slingshots readers between surreal scenes, diaristic musings, list poems and even a writing prompt. As genres shapeshift and merge, so too do bodies-most memorably when a childhood trauma literally bonds a character to a toy poodle." -Cassie Packard, Frieze


"The characters in Sex Goblin occupy a Tumblr-style register, mixing ha-ha irony with a profound sensitivity and warmth. He writes with a sense of wonder, introspection and sadness about nature, relationships and love." -Thea McLachlan, Xtra Magazine


"A lustrous alternative to the doomscroll. . . polyvocal, poly-corporeal, and full of moving, quiet optimism." -Oil Peters, Heavy Feather Review


"It's not often a book entertains as easily as Sex Goblin does while simultaneously speaking to the monstrousness of being in a body at all." -Mathuson Anthony, Book Club Bar


"The knife's edge of sex and violence, comedy and profoundly blunt misery, mania and self-loathing, reduced into book form." -Natalie Marlin, Moon Palace Books


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