{"product_id":"jack-the-modernist-robert-gluck-paperback","title":"Jack the Modernist -- Robert Glück, Paperback","description":"\u003cb\u003eA cult classic now back in print, this novel about sex, obsession, and art is one of the defining works of 1980s gay fiction.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA classic of postmodern fiction, Robert Glück's \u003ci\u003eJack the Modernist\u003c\/i\u003e portrays the slow disintegration of a love affair set in the early 1980s. Bob is excited and lonely. He meets and pursues the elusive Jack, a director who is able to transform others without altering himself. Bob goes to the baths, gossips on the phone, goes to a bar, thinks about werewolves, has an orgasm, and discovers a number of truths about Jack. Out of print for decades, Glück's paean to desire and obsession explores the everyday in an idiom both intimate and lush. Sensual as well as sensational, self-conscious, but never self-serious, \u003ci\u003eJack the Modernist \u003c\/i\u003eis a candid and heartfelt lover's discourse unlike any other.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Robert Glück\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e New York Review of Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/21\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 176\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.81lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781681379715\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eRobert Glück \u003c\/b\u003eis a poet, fiction writer, critic, and editor. With Bruce Boone, he founded the New Narrative movement in San Francisco. His poetry collections include \u003ci\u003eReader \u003c\/i\u003eand, with Boone, \u003ci\u003eLa Fontaine\u003c\/i\u003e. His fiction includes the story collection \u003ci\u003eDenny Smith\u003c\/i\u003e, and the novel \u003ci\u003eJack the Modernist\u003c\/i\u003e. Glück edited, with Camille Roy, Mary Berger, and Gail Scott, the anthology \u003ci\u003eBiting The Error: Writers Explore Narrative\u003c\/i\u003e, and his collected essays, \u003ci\u003eCommunal Nude\u003c\/i\u003e, appeared in 2016. Glück served as the director of San Francisco State's Poetry Center, co-director of the Small Press Traffic Literary Center, and associate editor at Lapis Press. He lives in San Francisco. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eRob Halpern\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of \u003ci\u003eMusic for Porn \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eHieroglyphs of the Inverted World. \u003c\/i\u003e Together with Robin Tremblay-McGaw, he edited \u003ci\u003eFrom Our Hearts to Yours: New Narrative as Contemporary Practice\u003c\/i\u003e, which includes his longer essay on Robert Glück's writing. Rob coordinates The Writers' Bloc, a poetry writing workshop inside Women's Huron Valley Women's Prison in Southeast Michigan, where he is Professor of Creative Writing at Eastern Michigan University. His translations of Georges Perec's early essays on culture \u0026amp; politics will appear with Verso in Fall 2026. He is currently working on a book of essays entitled \u003ci\u003eNew Narrative and Other Gay Fictions.\u003c\/i\u003e","brand":"Robert Glück","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46914905440484,"sku":"9781681379715","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0611\/9587\/8628\/files\/9781681379715.jpg?v=1777634520","url":"https:\/\/bookandmortar.com\/products\/jack-the-modernist-robert-gluck-paperback","provider":"BookandMortar","version":"1.0","type":"link"}