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Lauren Cook’s I Love Shopping—beloved on the Internet and IRL—is back in print.
Chickens have a collective soul. Heaven is full of the skateboarders you kissed in middle school. If the algorithm is its own hell, Lauren Cook, author of the critically (and uncritically) acclaimed Sex Goblin, stands in front of it fully armored. I Love Shopping invites its readers to inhabit a world just like ours, reflected through a big, benevolent funhouse mirror.
First published in a limited edition, this will be the first trade edition of the cult classic.
Price: $15.95
Pages: 88
Publisher: Nightboat Books
Imprint: Nightboat Books
Publication Date:
08 April 2025
Trim Size: 8.00 X 5.00 in
ISBN: 9781643622866
Format: Paperback
"When I read [Cook's] writing, I feel like I'm just being chatted to about very normal things like desperation and fantasy and wishing the world were different but also loving it just as it is. It's a soothing experience to remember that all the small, stupid things that make up my life are enormous, and it's okay for me to feel strongly about them."
—Nora Treatbaby, The Whitney Review
—Tobias Hess, PAPER
"[A] cult favorite internet novel."
—Language Arts
"A genre moshpit . . . Feels like you’re wired on some hard drugs and talking with your best friend."
—Hadley Corbett, Anderson’s Bookshop
"Lauren Cook can make truly any subject captivating."
"Lauren Cook can make truly any subject captivating."
—Natalie Marlin, Moon Palace Books
Lauren Cook is a transsexual naturalist and the author of I Love Shopping (Glo Worm Press, 2019; Nightboat Books, 2025) and Sex Goblin (Nightboat Books, 2024). He is from upstate New York