I Love Shopping

by Lauren Cook

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781643622866
Publisher:	Nightboat Books
Publication date:	04/08/2025
Pages:	88
Product dimensions:	6.80(w) x 4.40(h) x 0.40(d)

About the Author

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

Editorial Reviews

"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

"Kinetic . . . pinging between the depraved digital and the lonely truth of the IRL world."
 —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."
—Natalie Marlin, Moon Palace Books

From the Publisher