GOBLINHOOD: Jen Calleja & Gabrielle de la Puente in conversation

Thursday 3rd April 2025
Dead Ink Bookshop
6-8pm

GOBLINHOOD: GOBLIN AS A MODE is an essay and poem collection by Jen Calleja that artfully propound her theory of "Goblin-hood" - taking 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. Inventive, wild and tricky - a curious, visceral addition to Calleja’s remarkable oeuvre.

Join us at the bookshop on April 3rd when Jen will discuss GOBLINHOOD - the book, and the way of life - with The White Pube's Gabrielle de la Puente. 

“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