FINCH, Claire Star
Fuck Me Judith
Here it is! The 2nd book in our “Scanners” collection is Claire Star Finch’s much expected English debut:
FUCK ME JUDITH
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Judith, an academic celebrity, and Wendy, a slightly less famous academic celebrity, fall in love. They break up. In her ensuing grief, Wendy finds herself in a pornographic, epistolary haze that slumps toward the narrative. Fueled by the only things that cut through the pain—sex and democratic theory—Wendy takes us along on her wild ride toward self-actualization.
In Claire Star Finch’s first novel, love and the void question each other in action.
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Claire Star Finch is a Paris-based experimental writer & performer.
Their literary performances and hybrid ficto-theories are regularly presented in art spaces,
both as part of their solo work and with the collective RER Q.
Their research centers on themes like dildos and vomit, defining these objects as forms of emancipatory literary technologies.
They published in French the experimental fiction Crache dans ma bouche puis crache dans mon autre bouche (Les Petits Matins, 2024).
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"Star Finch confects a bravura mash-up of theory and epic sex in the bereft, permanently aroused Wendy, successful public figure. Finch’s sumptuous and depraved fan fiction is a site of discovery: what is love, how is the body a social text and something more, what is power? They set desire on its head and in every other position. This hopeless yearning in an ontological void is right up my alley. Even though FUCK ME JUDITH thrives in its brilliant language, I confess I’m lookingforward to the film.”
—Robert Glück
"This book swallowed me. Reading it, I even said to myself that sex with an author is something that everyone should experience before they die. I adore the humor and the intellect that are as voraciously deep as Wendy's holes."
—Rébecca Chaillon
"After her breakup with Judith, Wendy does a lot of thinking. Thinking can't really explain anything. Fucking proliferates but as soon as it's described, it becomes past. Desire is always in the present tense. Narrated through bigger and bigger dildos and academic texts it becomes clear real desire is to know nothing at all. Fuck Me Judith is the best book I have read in years. It is explicit to be known and erotic to feel. Put this book in my coffin!"
—LA Warman
FUCK ME JUDITH
11 x 18 cm, 168 pages, English
ISBN: 978-2-492650-16-1
Published by After 8 Books, 2025
Design by Victoire Le Bars
Literature / After 8 Editions
