Worsted

<p class=ql-align-justify><span style=color: rgba(31 31 31 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>. . . Lutz displays an innate understanding of the grim compromises of modern life but heightens and glorifies these with [her] dizzying language. [She] refuses to let the dreary world force [her] to write a dreary sentence.- </span><em style=color: rgba(31 31 31 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>The Paris Review</em></p><p class=ql-align-justify><span style=color: rgba(31 31 31 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)></span><em style=color: rgba(31 31 31 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>Worsted</em><span style=color: rgba(31 31 31 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)> feels illicit begging to be discussed in hushed tones even amongst hip company. The book's quiet ravishments of lives brushing up together isn't incriminating; it's the style that'll get you blitzed. Lutz reminds us that sentences themselves can be pleasurable.-</span><em style=color: rgba(31 31 31 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>The Rumpus</em></p><p class=ql-align-justify><span style=color: rgba(31 31 31 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>Lutz is the new sad man of contemporary fiction. [Her] first collection turns the official notion of gender inside out supplying a new kind of creature-call it a Lutz-which is neither man nor woman.-</span><em style=color: rgba(31 31 31 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>Interview</em><span style=color: rgba(31 31 31 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)> magazine</span></p><p class=ql-align-justify><span style=color: rgba(31 31 31 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>Garielle Lutz's sentences are among the most original in modern English their linguistic specificity making them virtually untranslatable.-</span><em style=color: rgba(31 31 31 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>Hyperallergic</em></p><p class=ql-align-justify><span style=color: rgba(31 31 31 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>[Garielle] Lutz is a sentence writer from another planet deploying language with unmatched invention. [She] is not just an original literary artist but maybe the only one to so strenuously reject the training wheels limiting American narrative practice. What results are stories nearly too good to read: crushingly sad odd and awe-inspiring.-Ben Marcus</span></p><p class=ql-align-justify><span style=color: rgba(31 31 31 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>Get ready for awe for envy for love. [Garielle] Lutz is as funny and original a writer as we have in the language. Consider this as Lutz would say a 'household fact.'-Sam Lipsyte</span></p><p class=ql-align-justify><span style=color: rgba(31 31 31 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>It should be enough to say that every sentence briefly brings something true to new expression: some black shape moving underwater.-</span>David Winters/<em style=color: rgba(31 31 31 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>3:AM Magazine</em></p><p class=ql-align-justify><span style=color: rgba(31 31 31 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>The Lutz narrator sticks its slippery-gendered fingers into the sorest spots on its psyche. </span><em style=color: rgba(31 31 31 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>Stories in the Worst Way </em><span style=color: rgba(31 31 31 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>is lugubrious mischief archaeology into inconsolable though jauntily endurable melancholy.-</span><em style=color: rgba(31 31 31 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>The Village Voice</em></p><p><em style=color: rgba(31 31 31 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>Originally published in 2021 by SF/LD Books this is the 2nd edition.</em></p>