Queer Art of Failure Straus and Giroux Early in the detox

Early in the detox

Celebrated for its extraordinary intelligence and exhilarating range

That doesn't mean she can't damned well try

Acclaimed by Norman Mailer more than twenty years ago as "possibly the only American writer of genius

For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you

Queer Art of Failure Straus and Giroux Early in the detoxThe Queer Art of Failure is about finding alternatives to conventional understandings of success in a heteronormative, capitalist society; to academic disciplines that confirm what is already known according to approved methods of knowing; and to cultural criticism that claims to break new ground but cleaves to conventional archives. Jack Halberstam proposes "low theory" as a mode of thinking and writing that operates at many different levels at once.