Name: Lauren Sanders launches "Kamikaze Lust," in conversation with Carley Moore
Start: 2025-10-23T18:30:00-04:00
End: 2025-10-23T20:00:00-04:00
Location: Lofty Pigeon Books, Church Avenue, Brooklyn, NY, USA

Lauren Sanders launches "Kamikaze Lust," in conversation with Carley Moore

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<h3>Join us for the launch of the 25th-anniversary edition of Kamikaze Lust, Lauren Sanders's Lambda Literary Award–winning landmark of queer literature!</h3>Author Lauren Sanders will be joined by writer and educator Carley Moore for a reading, discussion, Q&amp;A, book signing, and reception.<a href="https://shop.loftypigeonbooks.com/item/m_5dQbVRhdikwmRl-iosYQ" title="https://shop.loftypigeonbooks.com/item/m_5dQbVRhdikwmRl-iosYQ" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Preorder your copy of Kamikaze Lust here!</a>Can't make it to the event? Preorder at the link above to receive a signed copy for store pickup or shipping. Indicate any personalization requests in the "instructions and comments" field during checkout. <h3>About the book</h3>Kamikaze Lust takes the reader on an electrifying ride through the spectacle of life and death in millennial America. Smart, hardboiled, and humorous, the novel taps the American obsession with sex and death, sex and popular culture, sex and the written word, sex and pornography, sex and green M&amp;Ms, and, of course, the perennial sex and love. Sanders voices a feminism buried in desire that nevertheless insists on sprouting and blossoming.When her newspaper goes on strike, journalist Rachel Slivowitz is precipitously launched—into a new job as a porn star’s biographer, a new relationship with her coworker and pal Shade, and a bold new attitude—all at once. The story Rachel had been working on about a practitioner of physician-assisted suicide—a scoop the strike deprives her of—becomes personal when her Aunt Lorraine, dying of cancer, begs to meet the doctor Rachel has been interviewing. Meanwhile, as her biographical subject intuits Rachel’s migrating sexual orientation, and her dysfunctional and often racist family quiz her about her new gig, she is wracked with Shade-fueled fantasies and anxiety over Aunt Lorraine’s impending death—and suddenly thrust into the periphery of the sex industry, where Rachel Slivowitz unleashes an erotic alter-ego, Silver Ray, who may be spinning out of control. Sanders has said, “I like to imagine individuals, women mostly, who are letting their inner bad girl fly free.” In this case, that bad girl may find herself headed for good places.Included in the 25th-anniversary edition is a foreword by Carley Moore, acclaimed author of Panpocalyse, The Not Wives, 16 Pills and The Stalker Chronicles, and a clinical professor of writing and creative production at NYU.Praise for Kamikaze Lust“Without wit or heart, this much sex would be unsexy, particularly if the author were using the titillation factor as mere bait for jacket blurbs. Instead, it serves a broader purpose, illustrating that the boundaries we use to demarcate civilized society are largely an illusion, and that labels like ‘porn star,’ ‘cancer patient,’ and ‘lesbian’ are meant to signify―falsely―’people nothing like us.’ Here sex bleeds so naturally into life, and life into sex, that books that shy from this human realm begin to seem prissy and suspect.” ―City Pages (Minneapolis/St. Paul)“Sanders zips and zooms through Rachel’s overturned life with prose as sharp, quick, and deadly as any suicide mission.” ―Out Magazine“The fact that Sanders can so overtly take on sex and death, write almost exclusively of their relationship to each other and their effects on a developing personality, and not sound clichéd, is a monumental achievement in itself.” ―Toronto Star“Kamikaze Lust is a whirl of New York neurotic fast-quipping with a line or two courtesy of Miss Sandra Bernhard, but who better to borrow from than the Princess of Pith?” ―Time Out London<h3>About the author</h3>Lauren Sanders is the author of three novels—Kamikaze Lust, which won a Lambda Literary Award, With or Without You, and The Book of Love and Hate. Her writing has appeared in various publications and journals including Bookforum, the American Book Review, and Time Out New York. She is a resident of the great nation of Brooklyn.<h3>About Carley Moore</h3>Carley Moore is the author of Heart Less, Panpocalypse, The Not Wives, 16 Pills, and The Stalker Chronicles. She’s a Clinical Professor of Writing and Creative Production at New York University. Carley lives in Brooklyn with her kid and two cats. You can follow her on Instagram @fragmentedsky or find her blogging on Substack.

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