Eating Lightbulbs and Other Essays

In <i>Eating Lightbulbs and Other Essays</i> Steve Fellner traces the seriocomic absurdities of his own mind and its obsessions with family mental illness film poetry and gay sex. His search for love finds its outlets and objects wherever it can: in an imaginary 1970s Cineplex movie theatre at a baby shower or in a co-ed sexual abuse support group; via a letter penned to the ghost of an environmental activist who killed himself; or in the form of the AIDS quilt lava lamps amoebas and a famous queer poet who didn't know he existed. As he charts the inherently flawed ways he-and we-live and love Fellner is always ready to subvert victim narratives even if he has to commit a few (or more than a few) acts of betrayal along the way. Unflinching and sidelong laugh-out-loud funny and as sharp and unpredictable as shards of fine glass these essays look straight at the moments in life most of us would rather forget. <br> <br>