![]() ![]() ![]() “Comrades” follows a queer man with radical politics who just ended a long-term relationship and is now on the hunt for a life partner. “The Man in 512” tracks Manny, the childcare worker for a Swedish family, as he observes the comings and goings of an affluent co-op building, all the while teaching the children Spanish through Selena’s music catalog. In “Midtown-West Side Story,” Álvaro, a restaurant worker struggling to support his family, begins selling high-end designer clothes to his co-workers, friends, neighbors, and the restaurant’s regulars in preparation for a move to the suburbs. The People Who Report More Stress is a collection of interconnected stories brimming with the anxieties of people who retreat into themselves while living in the margins, acutely aware of the stresses that modern life takes upon the body and the body politic. A collection of humorous, sexy, and highly-neurotic tales about parenting, long-term relationships, systemic and interpersonal racism, and class conflict, from the author of The Town of Babylon. ![]()
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