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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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
A few ppl escape a gulag & travel the world searching for medical cures. Weird but cool descriptions & s3x scenes. I’ve never read anything like it except maybe Impressions of Africa. It's good but prevents u from connecting w/ what you're used to liking abt fiction: character, plot, etc 7.5/10
October 7, 2025 at 3:32 PM
A few ppl escape a gulag & travel the world searching for medical cures. Weird but cool descriptions & s3x scenes. I’ve never read anything like it except maybe Impressions of Africa. It's good but prevents u from connecting w/ what you're used to liking abt fiction: character, plot, etc 7.5/10
It’s 2 books you can read in any order: one of an Italian ren painter @ then the other is a girl dealing w her mom’s death. I didn’t like the historical fiction tale much, the other story was good! I get what it’s trying to do w/ echoes but the stories could’ve intertwined more 6.8
October 6, 2025 at 8:45 PM
It’s 2 books you can read in any order: one of an Italian ren painter @ then the other is a girl dealing w her mom’s death. I didn’t like the historical fiction tale much, the other story was good! I get what it’s trying to do w/ echoes but the stories could’ve intertwined more 6.8
It's about the closing of mental hospitals & the building of prisons instead. I sought this out bc I had questions why so many of the folks I serve deal w/ mental health stuff. I learned that while progressive people-power closed asylums, mass incarceration took its place 10/10
October 4, 2025 at 3:54 PM
It's about the closing of mental hospitals & the building of prisons instead. I sought this out bc I had questions why so many of the folks I serve deal w/ mental health stuff. I learned that while progressive people-power closed asylums, mass incarceration took its place 10/10
A white girl plagiarizes. I devoured it, mostly bc I love books about race, & writers. The author does a good job making a sympathetic villain. You can see the ending coming & when it happened I was a bit disappointed. (If you say anything abt Gus's eyes & this book cover I'll hunt you down!) 7.8/10
October 3, 2025 at 8:28 PM
A white girl plagiarizes. I devoured it, mostly bc I love books about race, & writers. The author does a good job making a sympathetic villain. You can see the ending coming & when it happened I was a bit disappointed. (If you say anything abt Gus's eyes & this book cover I'll hunt you down!) 7.8/10
It's abt desire & the nature of living. Critiques of Freud feel like hot takes on the Atkins Diet or pogs in 2025 lol. But it claims the Oedipus myth makes us fear the taboo. And this is what the State wants. Instead, authors prioritize/favor breaks & randomness. Felt punk rock in its language 8/10
October 2, 2025 at 6:54 PM
It's abt desire & the nature of living. Critiques of Freud feel like hot takes on the Atkins Diet or pogs in 2025 lol. But it claims the Oedipus myth makes us fear the taboo. And this is what the State wants. Instead, authors prioritize/favor breaks & randomness. Felt punk rock in its language 8/10
A guy w/ multiple hearts runs from a boss, cuts open a jelly-person, misses a lost love. Never read anything like it except maybe Waste by Marten or the Saladfingers cartoon. Scenes felt put together randomly; characters die & come back. Points for being its own unique world, nouveau roman, etc. 8.7
August 26, 2025 at 2:11 PM
A guy w/ multiple hearts runs from a boss, cuts open a jelly-person, misses a lost love. Never read anything like it except maybe Waste by Marten or the Saladfingers cartoon. Scenes felt put together randomly; characters die & come back. Points for being its own unique world, nouveau roman, etc. 8.7