Reviews

The Dirt Chronicles by Kristyn Dunnion

creaseinthespinebooks's review against another edition

3.0

This isnt a story im interested in. Only read it for a challenge im doing. Its not too bad minus the swearing

caseythecanadianlesbrarian's review against another edition

4.0

In The Dirt Chronicles, Kristyn Dunnion writes brilliant, moving stories about a diverse crowd: anarchist punks, dumpster-diving freegans, a First Nations lesbian teenager, queer brown kids in foster care, trans sex workers, middle-aged ostensibly straight men with intense homoerotic cross-cultural bonds, and tireless activists living in abandoned buildings. The subjects of Dunnion’s stories are the kinds of people you don’t usually come across even in queer literature, those outlaws who are on the fringes of sub-cultures. The Dirt Chronicles is a stunning collection of often sexy but also challenging literary stories: challenging especially if you’re one of those “bougie poseurs” or the “gay-lesbian enemy—mainstreaming homos,” as one of the characters describes some party guests who want to listen to Beyonce...
See the rest of my review here: http://caseythecanadianlesbrarian.wordpress.com/2012/07/27/a-collection-at-once-tough-and-tender-a-review-of-kristyn-dunnions-the-dirt-chronicles/