Goblinhood

Jen Calleja

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Rough Trade Books
19 September 2024
ISBN: 9781914236457
Paperback
190 pages

From the publisher

As formally inventive as readers have come to expect from one of the most daring writers around, and as wild and tricky as its subject matter requires, Goblinhood: Goblin as a Mode presents us with a series of essays and poems that playfully, artfully propound JEN CALLEJA'S theory of ‘goblin hood’—a theory that takes in all aspects of pop culture from film, literature and art as well as the author’s personal and original examinations of grief, lust, family histories and the physical fact of living in the world as it is.

Goblinhood is a perpetually and variously curious, visceral addition to Calleja’s remarkable oeuvre.

“JEN CALLEJA TAKES A THROWAWAY INTERNET TREND AND TURNS IT INSIDE OUT IN A SERIES OF GLORIOUS, OUT-THERE ESSAYS. DEMENTED AND LUXURIOUS IN EQUAL PARTS.”
—Anna Bogutskaya, author of Feeding the Monster: Why horror has a hold on us

“A PUCKISH JEWEL OF A BOOK I SHALL CHERISH FOREVER."
—Camilla Grudova, author of The Coiled Serpent

“I URGE READERS TO JOIN JEN CALLEJA IN HOT PURSUIT OF THE GOBLIN THROUGH CONTEMPORARY CULTURE IN THIS UNEXPECTED, REVELATORY, AND FREQUENTLY TOTALLY HILARIOUS BOOK, WHICH IS ALSO AT TURNS POLITICALLY URGENT AND MOVING, AS CALLEJA WEAVES THE SORROWS AND JOYS OF HER OWN LIFE INTO THIS CRITICAL AND KALEIDOSCOPIC TEXT.”
—Rebecca May Johnson, author of Small Fires: An Epic in the Kitchen