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Overview
Slim Confessions is an image-text about digital intimacy and visceral material. A work of "autotheory," the book lays in parallel the history of "slime" as a vehicle for horror and entertainment with personal encounters with quotidian slime in the human and animal worlds. At its center is a story of farm labor: A cold spring spent birthing sheep in northern Iceland interspersed with confessions about the author's sexual past. In the lineage of Dodie Bellamy's "Barf Manifesto," this is a book reveling in repulsion and attraction, a personal investigation of physical touch as approximated by visual media, a slow pour of parallel stories that chronicle a research trip gone awry.
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- ISBN-13: 9781934819968
- ISBN-10: 1934819964
- Publisher: Noemi Press
- Publish Date: January 2021
- Dimensions: 8.9 x 5.8 x 0.4 inches
- Shipping Weight: 0.45 pounds
- Page Count: 100
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