Fiction. LGBT Studies. "In the United States right now, reality, actual life as it is being lived, no longer is or seems to be what the newspapers and other media tell us it is, as the 'post-modernists' once said. Now actuality seems to be blindness, the reluctance simply to perceive. Kerouac didn't tell, he showed us to look. And Selby gave us some of the visions this kind of seeing reveals. Griffin has been listening to these writers, and to good effect"—Kathy Acker.