We are very glad to host the launch of Nate Lippens’ latest book! Concluding his “Wisconsin Trilogy” – after My Dead Book and Ripcord – Bastards is a powerful narrative of losses, memories, and survival – told in a fragmented, lyrical form.

Recently sprung from a stint on a psychiatric ward, the narrator of Bastards works hard to perform at being a person while questioning the concept of identity and what it means to be an aging working-class gay man when the word “queer” has become so elastic and gentrified it’s used to conservative ends. Struggling to survive, pay rent, and navigate a hostile world, he takes solace in art and his friends and measures what makes a life.

Published by Pilot Press, London.
Cover image: Ray Dean, Derek Jarman in Islington, 1968.