Backwardness

<p><em style=background-color: rgba(242 240 234 1); color: rgba(28 28 28 1)>Backwardness</em><span style=background-color: rgba(242 240 234 1); color: rgba(28 28 28 1)> is a selection of heartbreakingly hilarious excerpts from an epistolary and notebook chronicle spanning half a century of working-stiff miserabilia and the dark enchantments of life as a misfit. First published in 2024 by SF/LD Books this is a revised and expanded reissue.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(242 240 234 1); color: rgba(28 28 28 1)>Out of those gray middling years of the late twentieth century is etched this unlikely portrait of a genuine queerdo back before anyone knew what that was-let alone Lutz herself. [ . . . ] Reading this book fundamentally alters one's understanding of the author's short stories with their self-deprecating narrators erecting exasperatingly droll and verbose linguistic monuments out of the banalities of their everyday lives-and gives us Lutz herself as a character inherently lovable through the smog of her flaws.-</span><em style=background-color: rgba(242 240 234 1); color: rgba(28 28 28 1)>Art Forum</em></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(242 240 234 1); color: rgba(28 28 28 1)>Garielle Lutz is one of America's great writers. Why has her literary genius gone unnoticed?-</span><em style=background-color: rgba(242 240 234 1); color: rgba(28 28 28 1)>The Nation</em></p><p></p>