Perry Genovesi 🍐
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bassist, Marxist, union librarian. Winner: Weitz Prize (Hot Button Press). Best of the Net ‘25, Best Microfiction ‘24 Nominee. ‘Skintet & Other Tales of the Brassican American Experience in Philadelphia’ coming in 26 (Main Street Rag)
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The sentences of “the only untranslatable English writer," are worth price of admission. Plotless love stories w/ nouns & verbs mixed like you've never seen. I do a writing exercise jumbling nouns & verbs surreally & I've published 1 story this way. But it'd take eons to craft a true GL story 8.7/10
December 14, 2025 at 1:54 AM
The sentences of “the only untranslatable English writer," are worth price of admission. Plotless love stories w/ nouns & verbs mixed like you've never seen. I do a writing exercise jumbling nouns & verbs surreally & I've published 1 story this way. But it'd take eons to craft a true GL story 8.7/10
School read. Felt like an update of 1 of my favs, Egri’s Art of Dramatic Writing. The end was specific, talking abt taxes & readings. But the tips are super useful: putting characters in a locked room, starting with emotions at 40%. Using 2 characters who want a glass of water to explain drama 8/10
December 12, 2025 at 9:49 PM
School read. Felt like an update of 1 of my favs, Egri’s Art of Dramatic Writing. The end was specific, talking abt taxes & readings. But the tips are super useful: putting characters in a locked room, starting with emotions at 40%. Using 2 characters who want a glass of water to explain drama 8/10
It's Baker's phone s3x novel. A friend told me Clinton gifted this to Lewinski- I found 0 truth to the legend. My fav parts were descriptions of turning up speakers as songs faded & little noticings. It's all dialogue. The ending was disappointing but there was nowhere else for the story to go 8/10
December 10, 2025 at 4:46 PM
It's Baker's phone s3x novel. A friend told me Clinton gifted this to Lewinski- I found 0 truth to the legend. My fav parts were descriptions of turning up speakers as songs faded & little noticings. It's all dialogue. The ending was disappointing but there was nowhere else for the story to go 8/10
A woman comes back into a thirtysomething’s life and wants to restart an affair. I loved it. I wished I knew more about the historical context of the setting. The ending felt a little like a cop out but I don’t want to spoil anything. It’s my second Turgenev and I think I love this guy 8.2/10
December 8, 2025 at 6:37 PM
A woman comes back into a thirtysomething’s life and wants to restart an affair. I loved it. I wished I knew more about the historical context of the setting. The ending felt a little like a cop out but I don’t want to spoil anything. It’s my second Turgenev and I think I love this guy 8.2/10
It’s abt these furby-ish pets w/ cameras in their eyes. Someone watches from home & controls the furby & another person lives w/ it. I wasnt super attached to the characters. Nothing beat the opener. I think Schweblin tried to exhaust all plots that could come from these toys w/ mixed results 7.9/10
December 6, 2025 at 6:17 PM
It’s abt these furby-ish pets w/ cameras in their eyes. Someone watches from home & controls the furby & another person lives w/ it. I wasnt super attached to the characters. Nothing beat the opener. I think Schweblin tried to exhaust all plots that could come from these toys w/ mixed results 7.9/10
They’re 100 1-page “novels” though I guess we’d call them flash fictions legally. Published in '79 by a member of this Italian Avant-garde group, Gruppo 63. Plots include classic dragon and princes, dreams within dreams, etc. Not every one was a winner, but most left me smiling 9.7
December 5, 2025 at 5:47 PM
They’re 100 1-page “novels” though I guess we’d call them flash fictions legally. Published in '79 by a member of this Italian Avant-garde group, Gruppo 63. Plots include classic dragon and princes, dreams within dreams, etc. Not every one was a winner, but most left me smiling 9.7
School read. It’s the story of a guy’s life told by his friend. He loses his parents in the Holocaust & gets brought up by strangers & tries to learn about his past. It’s super slow w/ lyrical language & lush color words. The writing on memory and time having banks like a river was cool 5.4/10
December 2, 2025 at 6:30 PM
School read. It’s the story of a guy’s life told by his friend. He loses his parents in the Holocaust & gets brought up by strangers & tries to learn about his past. It’s super slow w/ lyrical language & lush color words. The writing on memory and time having banks like a river was cool 5.4/10
Re-read. It’s plotless thoughts on the page. Reading it this time (I bought my own copy,) the back cover + art tricked me into thinking I was missing a big story. A light horror underpins all of these. The feminist-leaning scenes were my fav & the scenes I remembered best from 10 years ago 10/10
November 25, 2025 at 11:03 PM
Re-read. It’s plotless thoughts on the page. Reading it this time (I bought my own copy,) the back cover + art tricked me into thinking I was missing a big story. A light horror underpins all of these. The feminist-leaning scenes were my fav & the scenes I remembered best from 10 years ago 10/10
Two novelists meet by chance. I loved the interactions btw the heroes & rooted for them – their dialogue was like the Spiderman cartoon from the '90s (a good thing). They were always quipping at each other. It felt fresh. I enjoyed the heroine, how she thought every slight was a crisis 7.6/10
November 22, 2025 at 10:17 PM
Two novelists meet by chance. I loved the interactions btw the heroes & rooted for them – their dialogue was like the Spiderman cartoon from the '90s (a good thing). They were always quipping at each other. It felt fresh. I enjoyed the heroine, how she thought every slight was a crisis 7.6/10
A rich dunce plays matchmaker & everything backfires. Other plots include peeping toms, angry french chefs, bad halloween costumes. Lots of good language jokes but a but dated. I love that Wooster thinks he's a hero who everyone looks up to. But the fact that he's the punching bag is delightful 7/10
November 21, 2025 at 4:50 PM
A rich dunce plays matchmaker & everything backfires. Other plots include peeping toms, angry french chefs, bad halloween costumes. Lots of good language jokes but a but dated. I love that Wooster thinks he's a hero who everyone looks up to. But the fact that he's the punching bag is delightful 7/10
Cool tidings: Welsh litmag Ink Pantry is publishing another story of mine! If you’re still in the mood for spooky Halloween vibes, this tale will be your jam. In the meantime, read my Philly-set downer, Sh*t Lottery, from their March ‘23 archives: tinyurl.com/inkpantry
November 19, 2025 at 8:51 PM
Cool tidings: Welsh litmag Ink Pantry is publishing another story of mine! If you’re still in the mood for spooky Halloween vibes, this tale will be your jam. In the meantime, read my Philly-set downer, Sh*t Lottery, from their March ‘23 archives: tinyurl.com/inkpantry
A woman works odd jobs in a weird society. She becomes a temporary pirate, a barnacle, and more. We learn about her mom and her own boyfriends. I loved it. Essentially plotless, with no building or rising drama, but incredibly funny. The humor holds you along for the ride 9.9/10
November 18, 2025 at 11:03 PM
A woman works odd jobs in a weird society. She becomes a temporary pirate, a barnacle, and more. We learn about her mom and her own boyfriends. I loved it. Essentially plotless, with no building or rising drama, but incredibly funny. The humor holds you along for the ride 9.9/10
It’s a family saga about 2 generations on the East Coast. I liked it a lot & cared about the characters even when I started out not caring. Spending more time with them helped. I liked the political elements & contemporary issues. Dickens & 'White Teeth' vibes, definitely 8.2/10
November 17, 2025 at 10:12 PM
It’s a family saga about 2 generations on the East Coast. I liked it a lot & cared about the characters even when I started out not caring. Spending more time with them helped. I liked the political elements & contemporary issues. Dickens & 'White Teeth' vibes, definitely 8.2/10
A math wiz teen tracks alien radio signals. 3 other characters take up the rest of the story. Much philosophical gobbledy gook. I was often confused, especially on setting. The relationships & what-if-it’s-aliens plots were cool but I felt lost more times than I would’ve liked 7.6/10
November 16, 2025 at 1:00 AM
A math wiz teen tracks alien radio signals. 3 other characters take up the rest of the story. Much philosophical gobbledy gook. I was often confused, especially on setting. The relationships & what-if-it’s-aliens plots were cool but I felt lost more times than I would’ve liked 7.6/10
A Swede goes to America in search of his brother & ends up a legend. Historical fiction that doesn’t take place in cities turns me off. I like how much loss and pain this guy endures. If I didn’t have to read this for school I would’ve put it down early. The gut-stitching scenes are good 3.2/10
November 13, 2025 at 3:42 PM
A Swede goes to America in search of his brother & ends up a legend. Historical fiction that doesn’t take place in cities turns me off. I like how much loss and pain this guy endures. If I didn’t have to read this for school I would’ve put it down early. The gut-stitching scenes are good 3.2/10
A guy in a dystopia writes his diary; words are all misspelled. There’s coal mines, decapitated heads, cannibalism. I’m not entirely sure what the story was. I tend to read fast, and it took me too long to realize that a puppet was a puppet & other plot points, even with ample clues 3.9/10
November 7, 2025 at 9:16 PM
A guy in a dystopia writes his diary; words are all misspelled. There’s coal mines, decapitated heads, cannibalism. I’m not entirely sure what the story was. I tend to read fast, and it took me too long to realize that a puppet was a puppet & other plot points, even with ample clues 3.9/10
2 men in a psych ward talk abt movies, queerness, & esp this book, Sex Variants, which the older guy has a copy of. Not much happened but I love fiction set in sanitoriums. Felt more like a novel w/ a defined arc than We the Animals did. I liked the younger guy’s stories abt NYC & muggings 7.9/10
November 4, 2025 at 4:19 PM
2 men in a psych ward talk abt movies, queerness, & esp this book, Sex Variants, which the older guy has a copy of. Not much happened but I love fiction set in sanitoriums. Felt more like a novel w/ a defined arc than We the Animals did. I liked the younger guy’s stories abt NYC & muggings 7.9/10
It’s about some girls in a high school math class. They do cool, discreet things like make paper graphs on top of their bodies. One gets in a train accident. There’s a philosophical, mathematical bent to it with vibes of Invisible Cities. Got it from a Calamari Archive moving sale 6.7/10
November 1, 2025 at 1:22 PM
It’s about some girls in a high school math class. They do cool, discreet things like make paper graphs on top of their bodies. One gets in a train accident. There’s a philosophical, mathematical bent to it with vibes of Invisible Cities. Got it from a Calamari Archive moving sale 6.7/10
It's 7 stories mostly centering on houses & the people in them. My favorite kind of weirdness where nobody stops to say "wait, what's happening here is bonkers" & instead just move into the weirdness. Awesome situations & endings. Schweblin is 1 of my fav if not fav contemporaries. Viva 🇦🇷! 8/10
October 29, 2025 at 8:36 PM
It's 7 stories mostly centering on houses & the people in them. My favorite kind of weirdness where nobody stops to say "wait, what's happening here is bonkers" & instead just move into the weirdness. Awesome situations & endings. Schweblin is 1 of my fav if not fav contemporaries. Viva 🇦🇷! 8/10
It’s a handful of short stories centering on Black Women and love and queerness and family relationships. I read it for my dialogue class. Good family dynamics, features different story structures, love rivalries, The O’Jays. 7/10
October 28, 2025 at 8:18 PM
It’s a handful of short stories centering on Black Women and love and queerness and family relationships. I read it for my dialogue class. Good family dynamics, features different story structures, love rivalries, The O’Jays. 7/10
Three sisters mind a failing, sinking hotel. I think it’s the 2nd Redonnet I’ve read but I can’t remember the last? It’s 90% style with all short punchy Beckett sentences. Hits different, not really on an emotional level & I have a feeling I also might not remember it. But I liked it 6.1/10
October 18, 2025 at 10:01 PM
Three sisters mind a failing, sinking hotel. I think it’s the 2nd Redonnet I’ve read but I can’t remember the last? It’s 90% style with all short punchy Beckett sentences. Hits different, not really on an emotional level & I have a feeling I also might not remember it. But I liked it 6.1/10
Stoked to share that N Carolina’s Main Street Rag will be publishing my 1st book next year! It’s 7 sci-fi stories tentatively called ‘Skintet & Other Tales of the Brassican American Experience in Philadelphia’. Read the title story in Eclectica: tinyurl.com/skintet . I’ll share updates as they come
October 17, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Stoked to share that N Carolina’s Main Street Rag will be publishing my 1st book next year! It’s 7 sci-fi stories tentatively called ‘Skintet & Other Tales of the Brassican American Experience in Philadelphia’. Read the title story in Eclectica: tinyurl.com/skintet . I’ll share updates as they come
It’s about 2 hoodlums who murder a family & what led up to it & what came after. I was slightly jarred when we got access to 1 of the killer’s thoughts. I wonder if this is what birthed so much trendy true crime 8/10. School Read
October 15, 2025 at 6:19 PM
It’s about 2 hoodlums who murder a family & what led up to it & what came after. I was slightly jarred when we got access to 1 of the killer’s thoughts. I wonder if this is what birthed so much trendy true crime 8/10. School Read
It’s about a woman who observes the weather from a lighthouse & also many other things that felt like their own stories. Frigate birds, a woman w/ a broken hearing aid. A funny book where some stories connect around images like the lighthouse, & some don’t & feel vignettey 10/10
October 13, 2025 at 10:44 PM
It’s about a woman who observes the weather from a lighthouse & also many other things that felt like their own stories. Frigate birds, a woman w/ a broken hearing aid. A funny book where some stories connect around images like the lighthouse, & some don’t & feel vignettey 10/10
Something horrible happens to a town. The characters are pure grotesques & hate each other. Family drama is perfectly balanced. Everyone thinks sniping thoughts about the other. Subplots around the daughter I liked less. I liked how the story continued once everything got contained 10/10
October 8, 2025 at 2:54 PM
Something horrible happens to a town. The characters are pure grotesques & hate each other. Family drama is perfectly balanced. Everyone thinks sniping thoughts about the other. Subplots around the daughter I liked less. I liked how the story continued once everything got contained 10/10