![]() ![]() ![]() As you were writing this book, how did you cultivate that intimacy within yourself? What comforts besides the book-if writing the book was a comfort-did you have? Zefyr Lisowski: First of all, your novel is so brilliant! One of the things I think it’s most effective at is juxtaposing these intimacies between intense horror and trauma and the intimacy required to navigate in horror’s wake-even as that intimacy may in turn traumatize, too. Ultimately, our conversation kept circling around the importance of survival and care-within the world of the book, and even more, without. ![]() I talked to Felker-Martin recently over Zoom about this love, community, queer lineages within Manhunt, and more, the early afternoon light dappling across the computer screen. However, as a trans woman myself, what I responded to the most-and what I’ve seen the least in coverage of so far-was the shared love between queer people Felker-Martin emphasizes, the shared, complicated love between trans women. Through this positive reception, many of the reviews around the book have focused on its handling of TERFs and the violence endemic in the book. Rowling dying in her castle, and queer sex as tender, fraught, and intimate as it is in real life- has already made a splash with readers and critics it’s now in its sixth printing and has been widely lauded. Felker-Martin’s novel-which features estrogen synthesized from harvested testicles, J.K. ![]()
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