{"product_id":"effluvium-of-the-ordinary-days","title":"Time Also Will Make It Interesting","description":"\u003cb\u003eThe selected journals of trans, mixed-race artist and dyke erotica writer Red Jordan Arobateau.\n\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBest known for his erotic lesbian fiction, Red Jordan Arobateau was also a prolific painter who maintained and self-published a journal for roughly twenty years, documenting his life on the “abject bottom” of life in the U.S. Edited and introduced by poet and scholar Cameron Awkward-Rich with a foreword by Michelle Tea, and paintings by Arobateau, \u003ci\u003eTime Also Will Make It Interesting\u003c\/i\u003e captures Arobateau’s life as a young dyke in the criminalized cultures of 1950s-60s gay bars of Chicago and New York; his transition from dyke to trans man in late 1990s San Francisco; and his return to painting and an unfolding spirituality within that rapidly gentrifying city. \n\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eQueerly messy, ornery, and stuffed with Arobateau’s wisdom, this volume is what he might have called, “a novel combined with a journal—da novel\/journal! Taking all the liberty in the world! A domain where verse can be inserted, dreams recorded, my everyday political rants printed out, combined with my forté—fiction! All under one binding \u0026amp; title!”\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Nightboat Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56643526787416,"sku":"9781643623054","price":21.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9781643623054.jpg?v=1781028025","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/effluvium-of-the-ordinary-days","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}