A LAST SUPPER OF QUEER APOSTLES Selected Essays

This audiobook begins with a thoughtful foreword, written and narrated by Idra Novey, and a comprehensive introduction that provides essential historical and linguistic context, narrated by translator Gwendolyn Harper. Then, Vico Ortiz vividly narrates the selection of crónicas (short chronicles) written by Chilean queer activist and artist Pedro Lemebel. These essays are a blend of fiction, nonfiction, journalism, and imagination, blurring (and queering) the boundaries of genre. Lemebel writes about the daily lives of queer and trans Chileans who are living through both the AIDS crisis and the Pinochet dictatorship. Their prose is brash, campy, ecstatic, and unapologetic. Ortiz captures their humor, pathos, and anger in both English and Spanish. Their voice is by turns warm, affronted, sarcastic, plaintive, and poetic. A phenomenal production of a South American queer classic. L.S. © AudioFile 2024, Portland, Maine [Published: OCTOBER 2024]