Böcker av Lucas Baisch

In Lucas Baisch's 404 Not Found, we find ourselves at the back of a clay building that signals "stay away, stay awake." Slack has a bad habit of holding people captive and now he's the one shackled to a metal grate. Ro makes ends meet through drag-play for a truck-stop benefactor. She leverages her wages to travel down the neck of the Americas, making herself invisible along the way. Her cousin Cameo carries cups of water to Slack, then retreats to La Barranca, a digital landscape of his own invention where he encrypts documents for asylum-seekers--until one day, an anonymous disruptor forces him to meet at a new clay building that Cameo didn't make. A twisting, twisted work of intricacy, density, and despair netted in kidnap, virtual utopias, upended borders, and Freddy Krueger cosplay.

For each edition of the Occasional, guest editors invite artists, thinkers, and members of our community to consider questions that we have and topics that move us. For Occasional No. 3, playwrights Lucas Baisch and Emma Horwitz have invited Liza Birkenmeier, Theresa Buchheister, Lisa D'Amour, dots, Diane Exavier, Zoë Geltman, Miguel Gutierrez, nazareth hassan, Orlando Hernández, Julia Izumi, Imani Elizabeth Jackson, Kate Kremer, Lisa Kron, Shayan Lotfi, Sam Max, Kate McGee, Eli Nixon, Marissa Joyce Stamps, reid tang, Jesús I. Valles, Noah Weinman, and Bailey Williams to respond to the question, “What are you obsessed with? And how are you holding it?”