{"product_id":"slow-guillotine-paperback","title":"Slow Guillotine - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eTeo Rivera-Dundas\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinner of the Barbara DiBernard Prize in Fiction\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eSlow Guillotine\u003c\/i\u003e follows three broke weirdos whose collective desire to make and think about art is constantly interrupted by their art-industry-adjacent minimum-wage jobs. Throughout the novel, the three friends' day jobs in a failing independent bookstore, a sterile gallery in downtown Manhattan, and miscellaneous living rooms across the Long Island birthday-party-clown circuit interweave with their attempts to come to terms with their precarity, gender-dysphoric embodiment, and the floating dream of collective liberation.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSpanning one year and told through an obsessive first-person present tense, \u003ci\u003eSlow Guillotine\u003c\/i\u003e brings the bildungsroman structure through the autofictional looking glass, questioning how \"coming of age\" could be feasible in a society of debtors, wage laborers, and renters.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eTeo Rivera-Dundas\u003c\/b\u003e is a writer in western Massachusetts. His work has received support from the Wassaic Project, Anderson Center at Tower View, California Institute of the Arts, and the University of California, San Diego. His writing has appeared in \u003ci\u003eGulf Coast\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eMeridian\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eTupelo Quarterly\u003c\/i\u003e, and Desperate Literature's annual \u003ci\u003eEleven Stories\u003c\/i\u003e anthology, among other publications.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 220\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.5 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e March 01, 2026\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52023272898861,"sku":"9781496247315","price":23.96,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0938\/3185\/6429\/files\/slow-guillotine-paperback-5365369.webp?v=1777431487","url":"https:\/\/ishookbooks.com\/products\/slow-guillotine-paperback","provider":"iShook Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}