First published as an online serial in 2020, PANPOCALYPSE (the novel!) is now available for preorder. This archival page documents the original posts that we’re resharing in anticipation of the book’s April release!
In the midst of the coronavirus pandemic, a queer disabled woman takes to biking through a shutdown New York City in search for the ex-girlfriend who broke her heart.
In pandemic-era NYC, Orpheus just manages to buy a bike before they sell out across the city. She takes to the streets looking for Eurydice, the first woman she fell in love with, who broke her heart. The city is largely closed, devoid of touch, connection, and community. But Orpheus hears mysterious news of an underground bar, La Monacle, fashioned after the lesbian club of the same name in 1930s Paris. Can she find it? Will she ever be allowed to love or fuck again? Follow our lonely queer, disabled, poly hero in a new serialized novel about disease, decay, love, and revolution.
About the author:
Carley Moore is the author of the essay collection 16 Pills, the poetry chapbook Portal Poem, the young adult novel The Stalker Chronicles, and the fiction novel The Not Wives, published with the Feminist Press in 2019. Her work has appeared in the American Poetry Review, Brainchild, the Brooklyn Rail, the Journal of Popular Culture, and other publications. She is a clinical professor of writing and contemporary culture and creative production in the Global Liberal Studies Program at New York University and a senior associate at Bard College’s Institute for Writing and Thinking. She lives in Brooklyn.
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Carley Moore
A novel of sex-positive awakening and burgeoning political resistance, set in Occupy-era New York City.
About the artist:
Alex Pizzuti!
Neeti (knee-tea) Banerji is an illustrator and designer based in New Delhi. After completing her BFA in Illustration from the Rhode Island School of Design in 2017, she worked with publishing houses in Boston and New York, returning to India a year later. Her work includes editorial art, picture book illustration, visual identity creation, and board game development. Contact her at neetibanerji.com.
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