Eating Lightbulbs and Other Essays

In Eating Lightbulbs and Other Essays, Steve Fellner traces the seriocomic absurdities of his own mind and its obsessions with family, mental illness, film, poetry, and gay sex. His search for love finds its outlets and objects wherever it can: in an imaginary 1970s Cineplex movie theatre, at a baby shower, or in a co-ed sexual abuse support group; via a letter penned to the ghost of an environmental activist who killed himself; or in the form of the AIDS quilt, lava lamps, amoebas, and a famous queer poet who didn't know he existed. As he charts the inherently flawed ways he--and we--live and love, Fellner is always ready to subvert victim narratives even if he has to commit a few (or more than a few) acts of betrayal along the way. Unflinching and sidelong, laugh-out-loud funny, and as sharp and unpredictable as shards of fine glass, these essays look straight at the moments in life most of us would rather forget.

Author: Steve Fellner
Publisher: Mad Creek Books
Published: 11/04/2021
Pages: 224
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.60lbs
Size: 8.43h x 5.43w x 0.79d
ISBN13: 9780814258071
ISBN10: 0814258077
BISAC Categories:
- Literary Collections | LGBTQ+
- Biography & Autobiography | Personal Memoirs
- Literary Collections | Essays

About the Author
Steve Fellner is Professor of Creative Writing at SUNY Brockport. He is the author two books of poetry and a memoir, All Screwed Up. His essays have appeared in Brevity, Mississippi Review, The Normal School, North American Review, The Sun, and Mid-American Review, among others.