My Molly (Departed)

From one angle My Molly (Departed) represents a performance whose protagonist is nomadic language itself. From another it represents the circus of a short-circuited mind in motion (call it the Broken Author Function Botched Literary History the effects of a computer virus of text generator) shot through with loss energetic fluster and by its very exhilirated being-in-the-world pure plain thrill. - Lance Olsen author of Theories of Forgetting Reading Talan Memmott's Molly is like listening to a vinyl record of the Western literary unconscious of indecent solo longings brutalized into words skipping on a tiny grain of dust and the dust is the evidence of shared longings and that is indecent too. Everything is fucked up and it's almost beautiful. - Anna Joy Springer author of The Vicious Red Relic Love