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Scenes from the Underground

Gabriel Cholette Jacob Pyne E. S. Taillon

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English
House of Anansi Press Ltd ,Canada
10 January 2023
Finalist, Writers Trust Dayne Ogilvie Prize for LGBTQ2S+ Emerging Writers

I have just heard for the first time the expression ""to make soup"": it means to mix the bottom-of-the-pocket drugs of everyone huddled in the club toilet stall, opened MD, ketamine, old dry speed, crushed e pills, to make big lines that will let us forget the past forty-eight hours that have been so difficult.

In Instagram-style vignettes that span Montreal, New York, and Berlin, our narrator - a doctoral student in medieval studies - leads us through the bathrooms and back rooms of clubs and raves as he explores the sex, drugs, and music that define queer nightlife.

Accompanied by Jacob Pyne's full-colour illustrations, which perfectly punctuate the narrator's occasional self-destructive melancholy, Scenes from the Underground delivers the fully uninhibited field notes of the club scene.
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Illustrated by:   Jacob Pyne
Translated by:  
Imprint:   House of Anansi Press Ltd ,Canada
Country of Publication:   Canada
Dimensions:   Height: 203mm,  Width: 139mm, 
Weight:   226g
ISBN:   9781487010751
ISBN 10:   1487010753
Pages:   168
Publication Date:  
Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

GABRIEL CHOLETTE (@gab.cho) scours the New York, Berlin, and Montreal underground scenes for literary material, which he writes on using the codes of Instagram. He is also finishing a thesis on the commercial imagination in medieval French literature. Montreal artist JACOB PYNE (@cumpug) explores themes of sexual identity, relationships, and anonymous sex from a queer perspective. His intimate and erotically charged scenes are inspired by his personal experiences and desires. E. S. TAILLON is a queer, neurodivergent writer and the former managing editor at PRISM international magazine. They hold a master’s degree in French literature from the University of Toronto and an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of British Columbia. They have published prose in Déraciné and filling Station, and poetry in CV2, The /tƐmz/ Review, and Augur Magazine. Their first literary translation, Scenes from the Underground, was shortlisted for the Dayne Ogilvie Prize for LGBTQ2S+ Emerging Writers.

Reviews for Scenes from the Underground

Terse and vivid. * Boston Arts Fuse *


  • Short-listed for Writers Trust Dayne Ogilvie Prize for LGBTQ2S+ Emerging Writers 2023 (Canada)

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