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SONGS OF NO PROVENANCE
This literary novel tells the story of Joan Vole, an indie folksinger forever on the edge of fame, who flees New York after committing a shocking sexual act onstage that she fears will doom her career. For readers of Torrey Peters' DETRANSATION BABY and JM Coetzee's DISGRACE.
Joan retreats to teaching teenagers at a writing camp in rural Virginia, where she's forced to question her own toxic relationship to artmaking while finding new hope in her students and a deepening intimacy with a nonbinary cartoonist. This character study of a flawed and fascinating artist explores issues of trans and nonbinary identity, queer appropriation, fame, cancel culture, and how to make art without ego.
Lydia Conklin was a Stegner Fellow and has received multiple awards, grants and fellowships. Their fiction is published in The Paris Review, Tin House, The Southern Review, and elsewhere. They have drawn cartoons for The New Yorker and other publications. Their first collection of stories, RAINBOW RAINBOW, was published by Catapult Books in the USA and Simon & Schuster in the UK.
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Published 2025-06-03 by Catapult |