Justin Torres lost an entire book manuscript. Then he wrote 'Blackouts' – Pasadena Star News
The new novel by the writer and UCLA faculty member is nominated for the National Book Award, which will be announced Nov. 15.
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The new novel by the writer and UCLA faculty member is nominated for the National Book Award, which will be announced Nov. 15.
The new novel by the writer and UCLA faculty member is nominated for the National Book Award, which will be announced Nov. 15.
The new novel by the writer and UCLA faculty member is nominated for the National Book Award, which will be announced Nov. 15.
The new novel by the writer and UCLA faculty member is nominated for the National Book Award, which will be announced Nov. 15.
If this oracular role was something Torres reluctantly embraced in the aftermath of his debut, it's one he’s more fully embraced in his sophomore novel. Its beautifully rendered, fictional prose cloaks an ambitious and immense task on the part of the author or narrator to imagine and mobilize a narrative that, if successful, could function as a kind of lost queer history.