Baby Geisha

"Trinie Dalton s Baby Geisha is a travelogue. Her stories speak volumes of lostness about a world full of riveting features and no map. Things just kind of dead-end in a macho way that feels like porn that didn t happen the dirty scene I mean. Trinie s writing absolutely unfeminine work. Which feels unique to me. In her hands, gender, like a new kind of western, is just moving across a landscape, the salutary effect of which is that it requires that Trinie write this beautiful stuff of which I can t get enough. Like a desert, her work refuses to give us even a drop more, is full of strange animals, is enduring and glittery." -Eileen Myles "Trinie Dalton's collection, Baby Geisha , is seductive and exciting, the stories told by voices that might be talking inside your head, except their language is entirely unexpected and dazzling. Every sentence winds up in an unexpected place, peopled by "space virgins....on orgiastic planets" and "cousins smelling like salami." Both fantastic and very real, Dalton's stories are surprising universes, ringing evidence of her terrific talent." -Lynne Tillman Baby Geisha is a collection of thirteen sexually-charged stories that roam from the Coney Island Ferris wheel to the Greek Isles. True to Trinie Dalton's form, the stories in Baby Geisha are distinctly imagined while also representing a more grounded approach in the author's style. There's the Joan Didion-obsessed starving journalist of "Pura Vida," struggling to maintain a relationship with her performance artist sisters (or anyone, for that matter), on assignment in Costa Rica to write an article on sloth-hugging. "Millennium Chill" is about a woman who discovers that her body heat is mysteriously linked to that of an elderly beggar. Baby Geisha serves to support Dalton's reputation as a remarkable stylist and a very original artist.