Thirty delete this book is a layered

this book is a layered investigation of the art world and its deeds

archives and testimonials

—Renee Gladman (2020 Open Reading Period Guest Judge)

Daphna Saker Massey

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Thirty delete this book is a layeredThirty is the story of a woman who is convinced that she is going to die at the age of thirty. Addressing those who will read it posthumously, she documents the last year of her life in a dark, obsessive diary. Other women are summoned into her downward spiral: spectral muses, heroines ghosts, suicide writers; Nelly Arcan, Elizabeth Wurtzel, Marie Sissi Labrch, Sylvia Plath, Virginia Woolf, Michelle Tea, and Angelina Jolie. A raw exploration of female