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Alison Rumfitt thoughts/praise - I love how ambitious and experimental in structure and language use her novels get, especially for novels marketed as genre horror; typically you only see this stuff in postmodern literary fiction - I think she’s nearly a decade younger than me, and I am not old?? She wrote two amazing novels in her early to mid-twenties! That’s so rare and such an accomplishment, and it makes me eager to see how she’ll develop both stylistically and philosophically if she chooses to continue writing and publishing into her 30s, 40s, 50s, and beyond. Though if she’s one of those early blooming talents who ends up more or less retired from writing by the time they’re 35, that’s chill, too. (Assuming the reason for the retirement is desire, not circumstantial constraints.) - Probably the most incisive and uncomfortably grimy/honest yet compassionate descriptions of transmasc egg/closeted interiority ever penned by a non-transmasculine person - I think Brainwyrms is better than Tell Me I’m Worthless, but I think it doubles down on potentially audience-alienating and “difficult” elements in a way that makes its status as emergent cult classic rather than ultra high profile hit pretty inevitable
sep 2, 2025, 3:40 pm • 10 2

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