{"product_id":"be-gay-do-crime-alissa-nutting","title":"Be Gay, Do Crime (Alissa Nutting)","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Chaotic, sexy, and binge-worthy as hell, \u003ci\u003eBe Gay, Do Crime\u003c\/i\u003e is an EVENT.\"-Ruth Madievsky, author of \u003ci\u003eAll Night Pharmacy\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA follow-up to their runaway success \u003ci\u003ePeach Pit: Sixteen Stories of Unsavory Women\u003c\/i\u003e, editors Molly Llewellyn and Kristel Buckley return with Be Gay, Do Crime, a celebration of queer chaos from an all-queer author lineup featuring Myriam Gurba, Emily Austin, Alissa Nutting, and Francesca Ekwuyasi\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003eA trans woman makes increasingly frequent hoax calls to a business where she's had a negative experience, watching the consequences with perverse joy. A group of aging queers turns to bank robbery to stop the sale of their bungalow complex to a development company. As the president prepares to give a speech, two women lurk among the journalists, ready to shoot him. And an aspiring author takes to stealing items from strangers' homes in a kind of cosmic redistribution each time one of her relationships fail.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn sixteen brilliant, wild-eyed stories, \u003ci\u003eBe Gay, Do Crime\u003c\/i\u003e delivers a celebration and reckoning of why queer people turn to crime-unintentionally, as a means of survival, as protest, as rescue, or to right injustices big and small.\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003ch4\u003eAutorenportrait\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eAlissa Nutting\u003c\/b\u003e is a novelist, screenwriter, and showrunner, most recently of the Adult Swim MAX animated series \u003ci\u003eTeenage Euthanasia\u003c\/i\u003e and the MAX original comedy \u003ci\u003eMade For Love\u003c\/i\u003e based on her \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e Editor's Choice novel of the same name.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAnna Dorn\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of the novels \u003ci\u003ePerfume Pain, Exalted\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eVagablonde\u003c\/i\u003e. Exalted was nominated for an L.A. Times Book Prize. Her next book \u003ci\u003eAmerican Spirits\u003c\/i\u003e is forthcoming for Simon and Schuster. She lives in Los Angeles. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAurora Mattia\u003c\/b\u003e was born in Hong Kong and lives in Texas. Her first book, \u003ci\u003eThe Fifth Wound\u003c\/i\u003e, is published by Nightboat Books. Her second book, \u003ci\u003eUnsex Me Here\u003c\/i\u003e, is published by Coffee House Press. Her stories have appeared in \u003ci\u003eZoetrope: All-Story, Prairie Schooner, SPASM, Joyland\u003c\/i\u003e, and elsewhere; and also in exhibitions at the RISD Museum and the Renaissance society, accompanying portraits by Elle Pérez. She's working on a new novel called \u003ci\u003eSeven Come Eleven\u003c\/i\u003e, and writing some country songs.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eEmily R. Austin\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of \u003ci\u003eEveryone in This Room Will Someday Be Dead, Interesting Facts About Space\u003c\/i\u003e, and the poetry collection, \u003ci\u003eGay Girl Prayers\u003c\/i\u003e. She was born in Ontario, Canada, and has received two writing grants from the Canadian Council for the Arts. She studied English literature and library science at Western University. She currently lives in Ottawa, in the territory of the Anishinaabe Algonquin Nation.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003efrancesca ekwuyasi\u003c\/b\u003e is a learner, artist and storyteller born in Lagos, Nigeria. She was awarded the Writers Trust Dayne Ogilvie Prize for LGBTQ2S+ Emerging Writers in 2022 for her debut novel \u003ci\u003eButter Honey Pig Bread\u003c\/i\u003e (Arsenal Pulp Press, 2020). Butter Honey Pig Bread was also shortlisted for a Lambda Literary Award, the Governor General's Literary Award for Fiction, the Amazon Canada First Novel Award and longlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize and the Dublin Literary Award. \u003ci\u003eButter Honey Pig Bread\u003c\/i\u003e placed second on CBC's Canada Reads: Canada's Annual Battle of the Books, where it was selected as one of five contenders in 2021 for \"the one book that all of Canada should read.\" She is co-author of \u003ci\u003eCurious Sounds: A Dialogue in Three Movements\u003c\/i\u003e, a multi-genre collaborative book with Roger Mooking. francesca was Queens University's 2023 Carolyn Smart Writer in Residence, her writing has appeared in the \u003ci\u003eMalahat Review, Transition Magazine, Room Magazine, Brittle Paper, the Ex-Puritan, C-Magazine, Vol. 1 Brooklyn, Canadian Art, Chatelain\u003c\/i\u003e and elsewhere. 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