Will I love Bad Fire?

Lieberman continues his blithe defiance of norms, categories, genres, and all other stylistic straitjackets in this satisfyingly complex memoir. I’ve come to know and love this author’s talent for weaving, with wisdom and wryness and the incisive rigour of a philosophically trained mind, a dizzying welter of topics and themes into an everything’s-connected-to-everything narrative—one which is about being trans while mostly being about everything else. The book promisees that every person who reads it becomes trans, and that trans is “a flexible beginning” for which “you can pick your own secret suffix”. Once you’ve read it, I suspect you, like… show more.