Marissa Higgins is a lesbian writer. Her fiction has appeared in The Florida Review, Hayden's Ferry Review, X-Ray Literature, and elsewhere. Her nonfiction has appeared in the Best American Food Writing 2018, Glamour, NPR, Slate, and others.
Higgins's debut novel, A Good Happy Girl, is coming out with Catapult in 2024.
At The Chicago Review of Books she tagged "ten books likely to distract you from your hyper-specific family dramas and/or destroy you and your sense of self completely." One title on the list:
Perfume & Pain (out May 2024) by Anna DornRead about the other entries on the list.
Astrid, the self-hating midlist writer at the heart of this smart and funny ode to lesbian pulp, would be mortified to exist within a listicle about dysfunctional families. How cringe!!!! And yet Perfume & Pain is about nothing if not (sorry!!) queer chosen family; romantic, platonic, artistic, and otherwise. For people equally intellectually engaged by Carol and the Real Housewives franchise, as well as The Girlies who want a pink book for social media.
--Marshal Zeringue
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