Last Year at Betty and Bob's
Subtitle: An Actual Occasion
Publisher: Punctum Books
Published: 2021
Language: eng
Number of pages: 244
ISBN-13: 9781953035660
Subjects: Fiction, science fiction, general; Mind and body
Description: Last Year at Betty and Bob&#x2019;s: An Actual Occasion is the third in a series of three novellas emerging from a writing practice that taps the cusp of consciousness between dreaming and waking. An Actual Occasion revisits the viral transitioning of the becoming rat-woman from Last Year at Betty and Bob's: A Novelty (vol. 1 in the trilogy). The adventure focuses on the Gritta&#x2019;s, a gang of artists on retreat in the Dolomite Mountains, as they engage with the idiosyncratic, keeper of the keys, Roberta. Her other-worldly Café Arcadia, a magical cathedral of voluminous aphorism, is an archival refuge and durational homage to Benjaminian storytelling. This futurist fairy-tale is tinged with a curious mix of 19th-century feminist idioms and a queer, post-pandemic sanguinity.