Laurie Weeks: Zipper Mouth Nick Relph pain from joy

pain from joy

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A follow-up to their runaway success Peach Pit: Sixteen Stories of Unsavory Women

These essays are illustrated by artwork from modern and contemporary artists who were either personal contemporaries of Baldwin or directly inspired by his work

Laurie Weeks: Zipper Mouth Nick Relph pain from joyCipher Press, 2025, softcover, 150 pages, 13 x 19. 7 cm In this extraordinary novel, Laurie Weeks captures the exuberance and mortification of a lesbian junkie as she navigates the chaos and horror of everyday life. Through longing monologues to Vivian Leigh, ranting letters to Sylvia Plath and to do lists that never get done, Zipper Mouth gives us an unforgettable protagonist caught in a spiral of addiction, unrequited love, and mental health crises,