{"product_id":"be-gay-do-crime-9781938603310","title":"Be Gay, Do Crime","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Chaotic, sexy, and binge-worthy as hell, \u003ci\u003eBe Gay, Do Crime\u003c\/i\u003e is an EVENT.\"-Ruth Madievsky, author of \u003ci\u003eAll Night Pharmacy\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA follow-up to their runaway success \u003ci\u003ePeach Pit: Sixteen Stories of Unsavory Women\u003c\/i\u003e, editors Molly Llewellyn and Kristel Buckley return with Be Gay, Do Crime, a celebration of queer chaos from an all-queer author lineup featuring Myriam Gurba, Emily Austin, Alissa Nutting, and Francesca Ekwuyasi\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA trans woman makes increasingly frequent hoax calls to a business where she's had a negative experience, watching the consequences with perverse joy. A group of aging queers turns to bank robbery to stop the sale of their bungalow complex to a development company. As the president prepares to give a speech, two women lurk among the journalists, ready to shoot him. And an aspiring author takes to stealing items from strangers' homes in a kind of cosmic redistribution each time one of her relationships fail. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn sixteen brilliant, wild-eyed stories, \u003ci\u003eBe Gay, Do Crime\u003c\/i\u003e delivers a celebration and reckoning of why queer people turn to crime-unintentionally, as a means of survival, as protest, as rescue, or to right injustices big and small.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=AUTH-17360469\"\u003eMolly Llewellyn\u003c\/a\u003e, \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=AUTH-5342423\"\u003eAlissa Nutting\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Dzanc Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/03\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 203\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.75lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.40h x 5.50w x 1.20d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781938603310\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1938603311\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBISAC Categories:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-FIC\"\u003eFiction\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-FIC003000\"\u003eAnthologies (multiple authors)\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-FIC\"\u003eFiction\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-FIC068000\"\u003eLGBTQ+ | General\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-FIC\"\u003eFiction\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-FIC044000\"\u003eWomen\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAlissa Nutting\u003c\/b\u003e is a novelist, screenwriter, and showrunner, most recently of the Adult Swim MAX animated series \u003ci\u003eTeenage Euthanasia\u003c\/i\u003e and the MAX original comedy \u003ci\u003eMade For Love\u003c\/i\u003e based on her \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e Editor's Choice novel of the same name. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eAnna Dorn\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of the novels \u003ci\u003ePerfume Pain, Exalted\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eVagablonde\u003c\/i\u003e. Exalted was nominated for an L.A. Times Book Prize. Her next book \u003ci\u003eAmerican Spirits\u003c\/i\u003e is forthcoming for Simon and Schuster. She lives in Los Angeles. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eAurora Mattia\u003c\/b\u003e was born in Hong Kong and lives in Texas. Her first book, \u003ci\u003eThe Fifth Wound\u003c\/i\u003e, is published by Nightboat Books. Her second book, \u003ci\u003eUnsex Me Here\u003c\/i\u003e, is published by Coffee House Press. Her stories have appeared in \u003ci\u003eZoetrope: All-Story, Prairie Schooner, SPASM, Joyland\u003c\/i\u003e, and elsewhere; and also in exhibitions at the RISD Museum and the Renaissance society, accompanying portraits by Elle Pérez. She's working on a new novel called \u003ci\u003eSeven Come Eleven\u003c\/i\u003e, and writing some country songs. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eEmily R. Austin\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of \u003ci\u003eEveryone in This Room Will Someday Be Dead, Interesting Facts About Space\u003c\/i\u003e, and the poetry collection, \u003ci\u003eGay Girl Prayers\u003c\/i\u003e. She was born in Ontario, Canada, and has received two writing grants from the Canadian Council for the Arts. She studied English literature and library science at Western University. She currently lives in Ottawa, in the territory of the Anishinaabe Algonquin Nation. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003efrancesca ekwuyasi\u003c\/b\u003e is a learner, artist and storyteller born in Lagos, Nigeria. She was awarded the Writers Trust Dayne Ogilvie Prize for LGBTQ2S+ Emerging Writers in 2022 for her debut novel \u003ci\u003eButter Honey Pig Bread\u003c\/i\u003e (Arsenal Pulp Press, 2020). Butter Honey Pig Bread was also shortlisted for a Lambda Literary Award, the Governor General's Literary Award for Fiction, the Amazon Canada First Novel Award and longlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize and the Dublin Literary Award. \u003ci\u003eButter Honey Pig Bread\u003c\/i\u003e placed second on CBC's Canada Reads: Canada's Annual Battle of the Books, where it was selected as one of five contenders in 2021 for \"the one book that all of Canada should read.\" She is co-author of \u003ci\u003eCurious Sounds: A Dialogue in Three Movements\u003c\/i\u003e, a multi-genre collaborative book with Roger Mooking. francesca was Queens University's 2023 Carolyn Smart Writer in Residence, her writing has appeared in the \u003ci\u003eMalahat Review, Transition Magazine, Room Magazine, Brittle Paper, the Ex-Puritan, C-Magazine, Vol. 1 Brooklyn, Canadian Art, Chatelain\u003c\/i\u003e and elsewhere. Her short story Ọrun is Heaven was longlisted for the 2019 Journey Prize. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eKayla Kumari Upadhyaya\u003c\/b\u003e is a lesbian writer of essays, short stories, and pop culture criticism living in Orlando. She is the author of \u003ci\u003eHelen House\u003c\/i\u003e (Burrow Press 2022), a queer horror novelette. She is the managing editor of Autostraddle and the managing editor of TriQuarterly. Her short stories appear in \u003ci\u003eMcSweeney's Quarterly Concern, Catapult, The Offing, Joyland, The Rumpus\u003c\/i\u003e, and others. She was a 2021 nonfiction fellow and a 2023 speculative fiction writer in residence at Lambda Literary's Writers Retreat for Emerging LGBTQ Voices. She is a 2023-2024 Tin House Reading Fellow. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eMaame Blue\u003c\/b\u003e is a Ghanaian-Londoner, creative writing tutor and author of the novel Bad Love, which won the 2021 Betty Trask award, and was shortlisted for the Betty Trask Prize. Her short stories have been published in \u003ci\u003eNot Quite Right For Us\u003c\/i\u003e (Flipped Eye Publishing), \u003ci\u003eNew Australian Fiction 2020\u003c\/i\u003e (Kill Your Darlings), and \u003ci\u003eJoyful, Joyful\u003c\/i\u003e (Pan Macmillan). Maame is a recipient of the 2022 Society of Authors Travelling Scholarship and was a 2022 POCC Artist-in-Residence. She contributes regularly to Royal Literary Fund publication Writers Mosaic and her writing has appeared in many places including Refinery29, The Independent and iNews. Her second novel \u003ci\u003eThe Rest Of You\u003c\/i\u003e will be published by Amistad (US) and Verve Books (UK) in Autumn 2024. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eMarisa (Mac) Crane\u003c\/b\u003e is a queer, nonbinary writer. Their debut novel, \u003ci\u003eI Keep My Exoskeletons to Myself\u003c\/i\u003e, was a January Indie Next Pick and NYT Editors' Choice. Their work has appeared or is forthcoming in \u003ci\u003eThe Adroit Journal, The Offing, Joyland, No Tokens, Florida Review, Passages North, Lit Hub, TriQuarterly\u003c\/i\u003e, and elsewhere, and their second novel, \u003ci\u003eA Sharp Endless Need\u003c\/i\u003e, is forthcoming from Dial Press in March 2025. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eMyriam Gurba\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of several books. Her most recent essay collection, \u003ci\u003eCreep: Accusations and Confessions\u003c\/i\u003e, is a finalist for a National Book Critics Circle Award in criticism. Her writing has also appeared in the \u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times, The New York Times, The Paris Review\u003c\/i\u003e and the \u003ci\u003eBeliever\u003c\/i\u003e. She enjoys solving crossword puzzles and binge watching \u003ci\u003eReal Housewives\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eMyriam Lacroix\u003c\/b\u003e was born in Montreal to a Québécois mother and a Moroccan father, and currently lives in Vancouver. She has a BFA in Creative Writing from the University of British Columbia and an MFA from Syracuse University, where she was editor in chief of \u003ci\u003eSalt Hill Journal\u003c\/i\u003e and received the New York Public Humanities Fellowship for creating Out-Front, an LGBTQ+ writing group whose goal was to expand the possibilities of queer writing. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003ePriya Guns\u003c\/b\u003e wrote \u003ci\u003eYour Driver is Waiting\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eSam Cohen\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of \u003ci\u003eSarahland\u003c\/i\u003e. Her fiction also appears in \u003ci\u003eBomb, Fence, O Magazine, Electric Literature\u003c\/i\u003e, and others. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eSJ Sindu \u003c\/b\u003eis a Tamil diaspora author of two literary novels (\u003ci\u003eMarriage of a Thousand Lies\u003c\/i\u003e, which won the Publishing Triangle Edmund White Award; and \u003ci\u003eBlue-Skinned Gods\u003c\/i\u003e, which was an Indie Next Pick and a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award), two graphic novels (\u003ci\u003eShakti \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eTall Water\u003c\/i\u003e), and one collection of short stories (\u003ci\u003eThe Goth House Experiment\u003c\/i\u003e). Sindu holds a PhD in English and Creative Writing from Florida State University and is a co-editor for Zero Street, a literary fiction series featuring LGBTQ+ authors through the University of Nebraska Press. Sindu is an assistant professor at Virginia Commonwealth University. More at sjsindu.com or @sjsindu on Twitter\/Instagram\/Threads. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eSoula Emmanuel\u003c\/b\u003e was born in Dublin to an Irish mother and a Greek father. She studied at universities in Ireland and Sweden, emerging with a master's in economic demography. In 2023, her debut novel \u003ci\u003eWild Geese\u003c\/i\u003e was published by Footnote Press and the Feminist Press at CUNY. She currently lives on Ireland's east coast and is working on a second novel. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eTemim Fruchter\u003c\/b\u003e is a queer nonbinary anti-Zionist Jewish writer who lives in Brooklyn, NY. She holds an MFA in fiction from the University of Maryland, and is the recipient of fellowships from the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities, Vermont Studio Center, and a 2020 Rona Jaffe Foundation Writer's Award. She is co-host of Pete's Reading Series in Brooklyn. Her debut novel, \u003ci\u003eCity of Laughter\u003c\/i\u003e, is out now from Grove Atlantic. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWorks by \u003cb\u003eVenita Blackburn\u003c\/b\u003e have appeared in the \u003ci\u003eNew Yorker, NY Times, Harper's, McSweeney's, Story Magazine, the Virginia Quarterly Review, the Paris Review\u003c\/i\u003e, and others. She was awarded a Bread Loaf Fellowship in 2014 and several Pushcart prize nominations. She received the Prairie Schooner book prize for fiction, which resulted in the publication of her collected stories, \u003ci\u003eBlack Jesus and Other Superheroes\u003c\/i\u003e, in 2017. In 2018 she earned a place as a finalist for the PEN\/Bingham award for debut fiction, finalist for the NYPL Young Lions award and was recipient of the PEN America Los Angeles literary prize in fiction. Blackburn's second collection of stories is \u003ci\u003eHow to Wrestle a Girl\u003c\/i\u003e, 2021, finalist for a Lambda Literary Prize and was a NYTimes editor's choice. Her debut novel, \u003ci\u003eDead in Long Beach, California\u003c\/i\u003e, is about the mania of grief, all of human history and a lesbian assassin at the end of the world. She is the founder and president of Live, Write, an organization devoted to offering free creative writing workshops for communities of color: livewriteworkshop.com. Her hometown is Compton, California, and she is an associate professor of creative writing at California State University, Fresno.","brand":"Dzanc Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48449852375277,"sku":"9781938603310","price":17.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0550\/8097\/6621\/files\/img_b5454c6e-77a7-4111-83cc-6d888127682b.jpg?v=1753476425","url":"https:\/\/sureshotbooks.com\/es\/products\/be-gay-do-crime-9781938603310","provider":"SureShot Books Publishing LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}