humid and juicy

Beauty Talk and Monsters (Semiotext(e), May 2007), a debut collection of stories by Masha Tupitsyn, was reviewed in the San Francisco Bay Guardian this week. Reviewer Michelle Tea, who wrote The Passionate Mistakes and Intricate Corruption of One Girl in America (published by Semiotext(e) with a new edition out this Fall), says that “the experience of reading Beauty Talk and Monsters is humid, intimate, and juicy; like spying through a window at a neighbor’s television set, it provides both the voyeuristic pleasure of watching a stranger’s activity and the familiar flicker of a well-known film, now playing in said stanger’s psyche.” Read the full review here .