Permanent Revolution: Essays

Finalist for the 2021 Grand Prix du livre de Montreal

A writer may do as she pleases with her epoch. Rage accumulates.

From iconic feminist writer Gail Scott comes Permanent Revolution, a collection of new essays gathered alongside a recreation of her groundbreaking text, Spaces Like Stairs. In conversation with other writers working in queer/feminist avant-garde trajectories, including l'ecriture-au-feminin in Quebec and continental New Narrative, these essays provide an evolutionary snapshot of Scott’s ongoing prose experiment that hinges the matter of writing to ongoing social upheaval. Scott herself points to the heart of this book, writing, Where there is no emergency, there is likely no real experiment.

With a Foreword by Zoe Whittall and an Afterword by Margaret Christakos.