Happy Pub Day to “ENTOMOLOGY OF THE PIN-UP GIRL” by Lauren osborn
"From a cocooned wife to a retelling of Kafka's Metamorphosis, the women and insects of these stories refuse to be pinned up for the male gaze. These are stories as tough and exquisite as a scarab exoskeleton, as brutal and beautiful as a boiled silkworm. Each sentence rewards your close attention. Lauren Osborn is a writer to watch, and Entomology of the Pin-Up Girl is a debut as remarkable as any entomologist's collection and far more alive."—Matthew Salesses, author of The Sense of Wonder and Craft in the Real World
An Indies Introduce Selection
Winner of the 2024 Dzanc Short Story Collection Prize, Entomology of the Pin-Up Girl delivers a terrific play on the “monstrous feminine”—captivating stories of women shedding their skins and exoskeletons and blurring the boundaries between predator and prey.
A dissatisfied wife wraps herself in a silk cocoon. Teenage girls declare decay as the newest fashion trend. A new religion emerges from blood-sucking moths. And Grete Samsa wakes to find herself transformed—not into a cockroach, but a monstrous camel spider, famished and salivating for the man at the door.
A surreal exploration of nature, sexuality, disaster and desire, Lauren Osborn’s stunning debut isa must-read for fans of Lidia Yuknavitch, Aimee Bender, and K-Ming Chang. The final edition will include six full-page, black-and-white illustrations by brilliant artist Jenny Eickbush.
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about the Author
Lauren E. Osborn lives and writes in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania with her menagerie of tarantulas and other creatures. Her fiction and nonfiction can be read in The North American Review, The Adroit, Diagram, and elsewhere. She is currently serving as the 2025 Emerging Writer Lecturer at Gettysburg College.