GARTH GREENWELL is the author of What Belongs to You, which won the British Book Award for Debut Book of the Year, was longlisted for the National Book Award, and was a finalist for six other awards, including the PEN/Faulkner Award, the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. His second book of fiction, Cleanness, was published in 2020. His fiction has appeared in the New Yorker, the Paris Review, A Public Space, and VICE, and he has written criticism for the New Yorker, the London Review of Books, and the New York Times Book Review, among others. A 2020 Guggenheim Fellow, he lives in Iowa City.
Previous Publication Information
“Best Friendster Date Ever” by Alexander Chee
A version of this story has previously appeared in The Best Gay Erotica 2006, edited by Richard Labonté and Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore (Cleis Press, 2005), and The Best American Erotica 2007 (Touchstone Press, 2007).
“Safeword” by R.O. Kwon
A version of this story previously appeared in Playboy (2017).
“Reach” by Roxane Gay
A version of this story previously appeared in A Is for Amour (Cleis Press, 2007).
“Gospodar” by Garth Greenwell
Versions of this story previously appeared in the Paris Review (issue 209, Summer 2014); The Unprofessionals: New Fiction from the Paris Review, edited by Lorin Stein (Penguin Books, 2015); and Cleanness (FSG, 2020).
“The Lost Performance of the High Priestess of the Temple of Horror” by Carmen Maria Machado
A version of this story previously appeared in Granta (February 2020) and will appear in Machado’s forthcoming story collection from Knopf.
“Emotional Technologies” by Chris Kraus
A version of this story previously appeared in Video Green (Semiotext(e), 2004).
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