DEAD LOVERS: ANAIS NIN

80pgs
130x197mm
Single colour risograph cover, with metallic sticker
B&W inner pages printed on recycled paper
Perfect bound (7mm spine)

This publication is the second volume in our Dead Lovers series, and focuses on the work of a deceased writer whose shifting positionality and proximity to her own work shows us how complicated love can be: Anaïs Nin. Through a series of close readings and crits, we have commissioned three new texts to write in, around, or through Nin’s short story The Labyrinth (1944). By positioning these texts alongside each other and putting them into the world, they enter a dialogue that oozes across the time and space which separates us from Nin.

These three texts all depart from The Labyrinth in a different way. They are not parts of a whole, but dreams disturbing the same night's sleep, with familiar echoes of meaning, affect, and symbolism radiating through them. Throughout this publication, a web of unresolved questions weaves itself. These texts trouble memory and desire, bolstered in equal parts by the materialisms and surrealisms of being in the world. Asking what it means to record, to come up against facets of experiential truth, the darknesses of desire, and the terror of words as worlds, these texts bring together voices through time to experience the everlasting stretch of the diary.