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Attempted Preservation of the Glittering Self
Paperback
Publisher Price: $11.99
Publisher: Zabriskie Point Press
Published: Jul 4 2026
Pages: 110
Weight: 0.35
Height: 0.26 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Three men - or maybe one man, glimpsed three times - are trying to hold themselves together in a world that keeps finding new ways to pull them apart. Attempted Preservation of the Glittering Self is a triptych of one-act plays about the strange, funny, and occasionally cosmologically catastrophic work of trying to remain, somehow, yourself-in a world dominated by systems built, with great precision and for great profit, to ensure you never do.
Lioness II:
An adult novelty store in Times Square must reinvent itself by doubling as a trendy restaurant to stay afloat, while a seemingly ordinary dinner date spirals toward an impossible revelation
Goodbye Cat Gentleman:
A recent divorcé attempts to re-enter the dating world, but an obsession with Delia's catalogs from the 1990s threatens to consume his future before he can escape his past
Fracture's Void:
After losing his job at an AI start-up, a man receives an impossible opportunity: to travel back in time and reverse the worst decision of his life-backing out of a Craigslist vampire conversion in a JCPenney parking lot on October 10th, 2010. Instead, he uncovers a truth so devastating it transcends death itself.
Framed by a critical introduction from the oracular sub-underground poet Calder Penn, these three plays can be read separately or together. Each play stands entirely on its own or can be seen collectively as the life of a singular person appearing chronologically across time. In Attempted Preservation of the Glittering Self, the questions are profound, the stakes are real, but the trilogy is optional.
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