Communions [Adam Lehrer]

[Transgressive] [Fiction][Drug Lit]

Communions

Adam Lehrer

Hyperidean Press, NY. 2021. First edition. Like new.

From the publisher:

"Channeling hallucinated versions of dead artists and junkies, these fragments access the uncanny allure of shared experience. Elements of speculative fiction, criticism and encrypted auto-biography merge to form a disconcerting portrait of the artist as addict. Neither denunciation nor valorization, Communions is an attempt to probe the haunting singularity of opiate addiction and its ineradicable influence on art and culture" 

Adam Lehrer, of Systems of Systems podcast and the Safety Propaganda counteragency One Man Psy Op, is one of my favorite writers on the subject of drugs, as he's been through the hell of Opiate addiction and emerged extremely swole. This is a rock solid collection of short fiction all threaded by the spectre of totalizing drug induced pleasure. A very cool and underrated work. The one piece with DJ Screw meeting ODB is kinda worth the price of admission. Much better than all the faded Tao Lin biting autofiction most Dimes Square adjacent folks are releasing.