A hot fashion photographer hacks into girls’ computers with spyware and they love it. A teenage bride seethes with jealousy as her A-list husband tends to a Make-A-Wish child. A famous Twitter user is flushed down a toilet at a party in the Hills. This is the world of Parasocialite, where excitement and ecstasy abound — but happiness is harder to come by.
The debut poetry and prose collection from Brittany Menjivar.
Buy Parasocialite from Dream Boy Book Club
Read an excerpt in SARKA
Check out Brittany’s thoughts on Parasocialite in Black Lipstick Magazine, The Creative Independent, Hobart, Moral Crema, the Yale Daily News, and Voyage LA and on the Tales from the Mall podcast
Download the press kit here
The Car Crash Collective Anthology
One of Dennis Cooper’s Best Books of 2024
In 2021, Brittany Menjivar was hit by two semi trucks in a car accident that left her inches from death. The first time she ever hung out with fellow writer Erin Satterthwaite, she told her this story... and minutes later, Erin's car was totaled in a collision involving an Uber driver at a Hollywood intersection. Forever bonded by their trauma—and, of course, their love of literature—they founded Car Crash Collective, a bicoastal poetry and prose reading series.
The Car Crash Collective Anthology is a collection of writing by authors who have presented their work at Car Crash Collective, plus other authors commenting on the destructive and generative potential of the car crash. Contributors wrote with the following quotes in mind:
“These wounds formed the key to a new sexuality, born from a perverse technology.” —Crash, J.G. Ballard
“The car crash is a fertilizing rather than a destructive event.”
—Crash, dir. David Cronenberg
Buy The Car Crash Collective Anthology via Metalabel
Read Jack Skelley’s praise for the anthology in X-R-A-Y
Parasocialite
Praised by Nylon, Office, and the Los Angeles Review of Books
