{"title":"Derek McCormack","description":"Derek McCormack is a writer who lives in Toronto. His previous books include The Show that Smells and The Well-Dressed Wound (Semiotext(e)).","products":[{"product_id":"castle-faggot-paperback","title":"Castle Faggot - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA dark satire about an amusement park more deranged than anything Disney could imagine: a playland for gay men called Faggotland.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eCastle Faggot\u003c\/i\u003e is Derek McCormack's darkest and most delicious book yet, a satire of sugary cereals and Saturday morning cartoons set in an amusement park more deranged than anything Disney dreamed up. At the heart of the park is Faggotland, a playland for gay men, and Castle Faggot, the darkest dark ride in the world. Home to a cartoon Dracula called Count Choc-o-log, the castle is decorated with the corpses of gays--some were killed, some killed themselves, all ended up as décor. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe book includes a map of Faggotland, a photobook of the castle, the instructions for a castle-shaped dollhouse, and the novelization of a TV puppet show about Count Choc-o-log and his friends--reminiscent of the classic stop-motion special \u003ci\u003eRudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer\u003c\/i\u003e, but even gayer and more grotesque. As scatological as Sade but with a Hanna-Barbera vibe, \u003ci\u003eCastle Faggot\u003c\/i\u003e transmutes McCormack's love of the lurid and the childlike, of funhouses and sickhouses, into something furiously funny: as Edmund White says, \"the mystery of objects, the lyricism of neglected lives, the menace and nostalgia of the past--these are all ingredients in this weird and beautiful parallel universe.\"\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51396818600159,"sku":"9781635901375","price":15.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/e4ZQRxDYg9781635901375.webp?v=1789461930"}],"url":"https:\/\/blackandbarhe.com\/collections\/derek-mccormack.oembed","provider":"Black \u0026 Barhe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}