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“Lean Cat, Savage Cat is the book that’s been missing from my reading habits: classically glamorous, timelessly seductive. Lauren J. Joseph is a wit and an assassin from one sentence to the next.” —Torrey Peters, author of Detransition, Baby “Lean Cat, Savage Cat is an erotic spectacular of self-creation and spiralling disintegration: a wunderkammer of spoiling promise that combines the mounting tension of The Talented Mr. Ripley with the bleak, exquisite social comedy of Isherwood and Waugh, confirming the gimlet-eyed brilliance of Lauren J. Joseph."" —Olivia Laing, author of The Garden Against Time

“Lean Cat, Savage Cat is the book that’s been missing from my reading habits: classically glamorous, timelessly seductive. Lauren J. Joseph is a wit and an assassin from one sentence to the next.” —Torrey Peters, author of Detransition, Baby “Lean Cat, Savage Cat is an erotic spectacular of self-creation and spiralling disintegration: a wunderkammer of spoiling promise that combines the mounting tension of The Talented Mr. Ripley with the bleak, exquisite social comedy of Isherwood and Waugh, confirming the gimlet-eyed brilliance of Lauren J. Joseph."" —Olivia Laing, author of The Garden Against Time ""Even though I know better, Lauren J. Joseph's dangerously stylish and relentlessly sexy novel made me long for wild nights among Berlin’s demi-mondaines: the glittering chaos, the glamour of bad decisions, the drugs and clubs and would-be Bowies with their would-be Romy Haags. I was completely delighted and impressed by the level of filth!"" —Andrea Lawlor, author of Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl ""No one is doing it like Lauren, a cool old soul with a refreshingly original sensibility. With its sexy humor, relentless pacing, and enchanting balance of silly and sinister, Lean Cat, Savage Cat is (in appropriately cinematic terms) a screwball noir that deserves your full attention."" —Davey Davis, author of X and Casanova 20: Or, Hot World ""Lauren J. Joseph’s sharp wit and tantalizing storytelling carried me deep into Berlin’s alluring and chaotic nightlife. A glamourous, seductive novel about obsession, self-destruction, and, ultimately, self-discovery."" —Carter Sickels, author of The Prettiest Star

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LAUREN J. JOSEPH (formerly La JohnJoseph) is a British born American-educated artist and writer, who works at the intersection of video, text, and live performance. She has written extensively on contemporary culture, art, performance, pornography, gender theory and the Golden Age of Hollywood, contributing in print and online to publications including iD, The Independent, Sleek, The Guardian, Time Out, Attitude, Amuse, Siegessäule, Parterre de Rois, Charleston Press, and the ‘zines Birdsong, Fat Zine, 21st Century Queer Artists Identify Themselves, and Not Here: An Anthology of Queer Loneliness. She has also authored the experimental prose work Everything Must Go (ITNA Press in 2014), and the plays, A Generous Lover and Boy in a Dress, which were published by Oberon in 2019. She has presented performances at the Royal Opera House; Deutsche Oper; Bristol Old Vic; Barbican; Schaubühne; Art Basel Hong Kong; SF MoMA; Dixon Place, NY; Martin-Gropius Bau; Fancy Him, Tokyo; La Java, Paris; and Museu de Arte Contemporânea de Niterói. Her fine artwork has been shown in group exhibitions in the UK, US, Germany and Mexico.

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