“Never before have I read a book of fiction in which I felt almost like a background character,” writes ex-MTV correspondent John Norris about Alex Kazemi’s provocative new novel.
. Writers Laura Albert aka JT Leroy, Poppy Z. Brite, and Ellen Hopkins—literary lightning rods all—contribute accolades on the book’s back cover and front pages, a move that feels like a preemptive strike against those who might be inclined to shut Kazemi down. Hopkins, in her pull quote, vows to “forever defend” Kazemi’s right to write his book. And right on the cover is Ellis, calling Kazemi “my favorite millennial provocateur.
“People kept reposting and reblogging,” he recalls. “And I’d get hundreds of messages from teenagers all over the world like, ‘When am I gonna get to read the final version? I’m ready to buy it!’” Easier said than done. Despite a deal with MTV Books, which Kazemi says happened through sheer persistence, the book “wasn’t ready” yet, and he struggled to find an agent.
Brad, Lu and Shane’s ugliness is emblematic of the sort of behavior the great bell hooks wrote about in her essential 2004not interested in the notion of embracing "radical love" as hooks insisted was essential for men to grow, they're being spoon fed the no-big-deal misogyny, homophobia, and general meanness that came out of every corner of a white male-dominated media. “The boys in my book are vulnerable, and impressionable,” Kazemi says. “They’re kids.
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