Ali Sharpe

Spent,the new comic novel by Alison Bechdel,is a study in what happens when a doom spiral develops centrifugal force. The book is set in 2021, mid-Covid, both post- and pre-Trump. A fictionalized version of the author, Alison, and her wife, Holly, run a pygmy goat sanctuary on their Vermont farm.

  BEACON PRESS, OCTOBER 2022, 344 PP. In the second year of my fiction MFA, just after quarantine lifted, I was sitting in the park with a few of my classmates. We were reacclimating to each other, and all the conversation felt like it was on stilts, ready to tip