{"product_id":"again-harder","title":"Again, Harder","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCult author Alice Stoehr’s debut short fiction collection about the messy, intersecting lives of a community of Midwestern trans women.\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eAgain, Harder\u003c\/em\u003e gathers the uncompromising short fiction of Alice Stoehr, which investigates the inner lives, evolving relationships, and often violent marginalization of a community of trans women in a large Midwestern town.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn these stories, a commune of trans separatists seduces a suicidal writer. An obsessive TERF and the trans woman she’s fixated on circle one another with building intensity. Polyamorous triads bloom and wilt, hookup app messages fly, friends sit for post-surgical care, and women fall to the toxic allure of Dorothy Lipko, the worst ex-girlfriend you have ever known.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAmong this, there is regret, there is poverty, there is depression and sexual anxiety and despair; there is also fleeting, shared joy. \u003cem\u003eAgain, Harder\u003c\/em\u003e is the sardonic heartbeat of a new generation of American trans women.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePraise\u003c\/strong\u003e for \u003cem\u003eAgain, Harder\u003c\/em\u003e:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“\u003ci\u003eAgain, Harder\u003c\/i\u003e shines light on what happens in a society when trans women are systematically left with only one another to turn to in times of tension. . . . Through themes of sex, envy, power, and defeat, Stoehr illuminates just how real shit gets for trans women who have nothing and everything to lose.” \u003cb\u003e—Xtra Magazine\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“\u003ci\u003eDykes to Watch Out For\u003c\/i\u003e for the twenty-first-century transfemme.” \u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eLavender\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Harsh, sexy, tender, these stories remind us what we love about queer community, even when the closeness is suffocating. The dialogue is delicious, as are the hook-ups. . . . Again, harder, please.” \u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eElectric Literature\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“The sardonic heartbeat of a new generation of American trans women.” \u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eAutostraddle\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Alice Stoehr has created an entire world. Trans life is rendered here with impeccable, sharp clarity, both diamond and shard of glass. These stories will leave you bruised, spent, and begging for more.” \u003cb\u003e—Katherine Packert Burke, author of \u003ci\u003eStill Life\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Necessary, prodding, funny, sad, and (importantly!!!) horny dispatches from the crabs-in-a-bucket frontlines of modern transsexual life.” \u003cb\u003e—Mattie Lubchansky, author of \u003ci\u003eSimplicity\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“In \u003ci\u003eAgain, Harder\u003c\/i\u003e, intimacies flash and fritz to form a deliciously tangled t4t circuitry. Alice Stoehr’s acutely observed slices of Midwestern transfeminine life are dishy and dirty, thorny and sweet, charged with raw nerve and sure wisdom. This one will be trans canon in no time.” \u003cb\u003e—Megan Milks, author of \u003ci\u003eMega Milk\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Steeped in an ambient dissociative haze of weed smoke, flop sweat, and body glitter, here is a look at life on the margins of queer society at once unbearably tender and painfully desperate.” \u003cb\u003e—Gretchen Felker-Martin, author of \u003ci\u003eManhunt\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Within the pages of \u003ci\u003eAgain, Harder\u003c\/i\u003e, we glimpse what’s behind every civil rights rallying cry and ironic meta-post: the Grand Guignol of sex, death, fear, and need that has driven so many of us to extremes. Alice Stoehr is a natural successor to Valerie Solanas and Paul B. Preciado, a writer of rare wit and frankness who can manage a truth about transness that supersedes ideology, antipathy, and even contemporary politics.” \u003cb\u003e—Rafael Frumkin, author of \u003ci\u003eConfidence\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“\u003ci\u003eAgain, Harder\u003c\/i\u003e is a wall outlet my trans heart can’t help but keep sticking forks in—each story here alights with its own jolting truth.” \u003cb\u003e—John Elizabeth Stintzi, author of \u003ci\u003eBad Houses\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Desperate, honest, and affecting, \u003ci\u003eAgain, Harder\u003c\/i\u003e follows a circle of trans women whose lives overlap in messy and often humorous ways. Queer community can be a hassle, can be heartbreaking, and can save our lives. Alice Stoehr\u003cspan\u003e’\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003es wry tone does full justice to the complexities of these women\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e’\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003es lives and marks her as a voice to watch out for.” \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Naomi Kanakia, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Default World\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“These stories are beautiful, incisive, and finally all collected in one place. Every facet of transfeminine life is here, each waiting its turn to be held up to glimmer in the light.” \u003cb\u003e—June Martin, author of \u003ci\u003eLove\/Aggression\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eAgain, Harder\u003c\/i\u003e is a book to match the queerness of life in the Midwest, a book that is harsh and unsettling and at times rapturously tender. What a necessity it is to have such books.\" \u003cb\u003e—Lyn Corelle, coeditor of \u003ci\u003eMake the Golf Course a Public Sex Forest!\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAlice Stoehr\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eis a writer and bookseller living in Minneapolis. She has self-published four books of short fiction.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Feminist Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67694687158426,"sku":"NewBook-AgainHarder","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0726\/6988\/8666\/files\/9781558613898.webp?v=1792195167","url":"https:\/\/www.redcurrentshop.com\/products\/again-harder","provider":"Red Current Distro - Shop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}