JUN 29 - Dead Ink Book Club - Zipper Mouth by Laurie Weeks

DEAD INK BOOK CLUB: ZIPPER MOUTH —LAURIE WEEKS
SUNDAY 29TH JUNE
4-6PM

Ticket price can be redeemed against bookshop purchases on the day!

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, and the effortlessly hilarious and strange inner workings of her mind.

A messy and raw depiction of striving to live in a world that doesn’t cater to your brain chemistry, Zipper Mouth is an outstanding work of queer fiction. Come for the exalted nightclub epiphanies, stay for the devastating morning-after hangovers.

"Brash, exuberant… recalls Naked Lunch and imparts a fresh, lyrical sympathy… Dreamy, impressionistic, and rapturous… an ecstatic love story.” —Publishers Weekly

"Laurie Weeks's Zipper Mouth is a short tome of infinitesimal reach, a tiny star to light the land." —Eileen Myles

"Zipper Mouth is a brilliant rabbit hole of pitch-black hilarity, undead obsession, the horror of the everyday, and drugs, drugs, drugs." —Michelle Tea

PRE ORDER ZIPPER MOUTH HERE! (PUBLISHED APRIL 2025)