by Anton Solomonik
Littlepuss Press
4/1/2025, paperback
SKU: 9781736716885
Finally, a book for men!
Have you ever engaged in totally normal male behavior like:
- Stealing porn magazines?
- Hooking up with guys on Grindr?
- Attempting to work in an open-pit mine despite having no relevant job experience?
- Crossdressing as a woman?
- Attending Gnostic Mass?
- Running for government office?
Then this is a book for you!
It is definitely not a deeply felt collection of transsexual short stories, engaged in dissident metaphysical investigation of the normative tenets of gender in our society! Bro, how could you say that? It is very dramatic and exciting, yes, but it is not metaphysical at all. In fact, it is Realistic Fiction.
As if Charlie Chaplin re-wrote the works of Kafka, and he was a Russian trans man, Anton Solomonik brings a funny, heartbreaking, and startlingly unique new voice to contemporary short fiction.
Reviews:
"Anton Solomonik's stories are mordant, caustic, unyielding and outrageously funny. As they sound the endless ad absurdum of the human condition - human selves inside their given human bodies, like either of 'em or not - and as they unceremoniously toss every stripe of piety, conformism, and posturing straight into the acid bath - they reverberate with a brilliant and steadfast, backhanded humanism. That is to say, Realistic Fiction is a grand and electrifying read." -- Paul Harding, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Tinkers
"There is nobody doing it like Anton. I cannot wait to hear what people make of this collection of freaks (deeply complimentary)." -- Tuck Woodstock, host of Gender Reveal
"Delights with disorienting humor, fascinating characters, and the enthusiastic plumbing of masculinity's many mysteries, from local politics to cross-dressing to Magic: The Gathering. Low affect yet high-fidelity, Fiction is giving Thomas Bernhard meets Dennis Cooper meets, I wanna say, Robert Walser? (While we're comparing, it's rare to find short stories as tightly moving as the Borgesian "August, 1962.") -- Davey Davis, author of X
About the Author:
Anton Solomonik is a writer and illustrator living in Brooklyn, NY. He's the co-host of the World Transsexual Forum, an open mic series for trans writers. His work has been described as "whimsical, yet heavy-handed."