What does it mean to be a freak? Why might we be wise tothink of the present as a time of monstrosity? And how does the concept of themonster irradiate our thinking about queerness, disability, children and adolescents? From Twin Peaks to Leigh Bowery, Harmony Korine to Alice inWonderland, This Young Monster gets high on a whole range of riotous art asits voice and form shape-shift, all in the name of dealing with the strangewonders of what Nabokov once called 'monsterhood'. Ready or not, here theycome...
'Charlie Fox writes about scary and fabulous monsters, but he really writes about culture, which is the monster's best and only escape. He is a dazzling writer, unbelievably erudite, and this book is a pleasure to read. Fox's essays spin out across galaxies of knowledge. Domesticating the difficult, he invites us as his readers to become monsters as well.' - Chris Kraus, author of I Love Dick
'This Young Monster is a hybrid animal in its own right, suturing biographical essays with stranger things: a "dumb fan letter" to the Beast, a meandering confession from Alice, bombed out after her many years in Wonderland. ...There's not enough of this sort of playfulness and frank enthusiasm in art criticism.' - Olivia Laing, New Statesman
