Neither queer nor there: Justin Torres' 'Blackouts' is part camp, part history
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.