On the ClockA marvelous debut from the hugely talented young French writer Claire Baglin, this tender and painful portrait of working class life finds shards of poetry inside the twin hardships of poverty and service work Claire Baglins On the Clock packs a family saga, a penetrating picture of social inequality, and a coming of age story into a compact tale told in two alternating strands. The first follows the 20 year old narrators summer job at a fast food

until the reader realizes that the protagonist is heading towards their doom as if in a dream

inspiring exploration of mysticism not as religious practice but as a mode of experience and way of life by one of the most provocative philosophical thinkers of our time

” So claims Eileen Myles in their provocative and robust introduction to Pathetic Literature

Ganz immerses us in a time when what Philip Roth called the “indigenous American berserk” took new and ever-wilder forms

from railroads to microchips

Title stamped in gilt along spine

Crime Cases

At times there are companions—lovers and others—but she remains steadfast in her solitude

For All Mankind

his narrative (the very book we are reading) turns into a literary "stew" an uproariously funny melange of journal entries

where trauma is an everyday occurrence yet is never discussed

the fantastical elements are always earthed by the universal pettiness of strife between the sexes