11/22 Double Book NYC Launch + Early Reviews

Details on this week's launch event for Void Corporation and UXA.GOV, plus a few early reviews and ephemera

If you’re in NYC, I’ll be at Powerhouse this Friday 11/22 for a double book launch. Excited to have six authors I love doing a marathon read of the first ~30 pages of Void Corporation, followed by a few short excerpts from UXA.GOV from me.

You can preorder books or reserve free admission here. RSVP is good.

Still offering a free 90 day subscription to this stack for anyone who DMs or emails proof of purchase of both books until the end of November.

Both books have some early reviews newly released:

+ Void Corporation reviewed in the Village Voice by Gideon Leek

“Under the modernist A plot and the mass-market B plot, and cloaked in all of Butler’s long lilting sentences, is a personal revelation.Void Corporation is a beautiful paper lamp covering up a burning core of pain. (It) does not exist only as some sort of cryptic confession — it’s a dense novel full of big ideas about everything from monoculture to surveillance to painted giraffes — but at least one trap door out of the maze leads you back to Butler, his experience and emotions steaming away under the surface.”

+ UXA.GOV reviewed in The Baffler by Stephen Piccarella

"Robbe-Grillet will carefully torture a single woman for hours; Butler would rather just murder a million babies... He also comes closer than any other writer to faithfully depicting the most unthinkable forces at work in our world today."

The excellent SFULTRA podcast just did a long form audio review of UXA.GOV as well, including a highly accurate “Mister Squishy” / Pierre Guyotat / creepypasta / Cremaster Cycle quadruple reference. The archives of this show are stacked with wonderful artists.

I’ve got appearances on a few other podcasts lined up in the coming weeks and DMs are open so please feel free to pitch if you have the urge.

In the meantime, here’s the contents of one of my several Void Corp folders, after I changed it from the original original title.

And here is Project Pat lending a word about Alice Knott: