Scenes from the Underground

I have just heard for the first time the expression “to make soup”: it means to mix the bottom-of-the-pocket drugs of everyone huddled in the club toilet stall, opened MD, ketamine, old dry speed, crushed e pills, to make big lines that will let us forget the past forty-eight hours that have been so difficult.

In Instagram-style vignettes that span Montreal, New York, and Berlin, our narrator ― a doctoral student in medieval studies ― leads us through the bathrooms and back rooms of clubs and raves as he explores the sex, drugs, and music that define queer nightlife.

Accompanied by Jacob Pyne’s full-colour illustrations, which perfectly punctuate the narrator’s occasional self-destructive melancholy, Scenes from the Underground delivers the fully uninhibited field notes of the club scene.

• Publisher ‏ : ‎ Arachnide Editions
• Publication date ‏ : ‎ October 4, 2022
• Language ‏ : ‎ English
• Print length ‏ : ‎ 168 pages
• ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1487010753
• ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1487010751
• Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 8 ounces
• Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5 x 0.5 x 8.5 inches