Autobiography of Red

“smart and sweet and tender and original. erotic, but just under your skin. once gifted by a lover, who asked for it back at the end of our term. it's that good.”

“A novel in verse, a recreation of a Greek myth, a boy coming-of-age in a sometimes mythical, sometimes mundane world.”

“I never would have imagined a Greek myth could be so seamlessly, radically reinterpreted. A semiotic love story, told in verse, that reads the way a Wong Kar Wai film feels. Where has Anne Carson been all my life?”

“Anne Carson is the goat, her work is both sad and bittersweet while also being hopeful and playful. In this summer of Greek myth adaptations, read Carson. Her story of Geryon the little boy dragon is just heartachey in the best way. My favourite book of all time.”

“Nobel Prize Winner (as of today) Carson is an ancient Greek Scholar of Literature and weaves beautiful texts of ancient narratives into modern stories of lust and violence. First discovered her in my 20’s and her work feels timeless, given its diachronic roots, and even more salient in my 40’s. All of her books live on my forever shelf.”