Anne de Marcken is a queer interdisciplinary artist and writer living on unceded land of the Coast Salish people in Olympia, WA, in the United States. She is the founding editor and publisher of the 3rd Thing.
"The third-person perspective on myself is disconcerting."
*It Lasts Forever and Then It’s Over*
"Anne de Marcken must write in a charmed ink that first erases the
line between the living and the dead, and then — with prose as
elegant as it is spooked — tells the story of what lies underneath.
I have never read anything like this brilliant debut."
*Sabrina Orah Mark*
"Astounding, inventive, and utterly original, Anne de Marcken has
written a freakish classic with wisdom to spare about life, death,
and the eerily vast space between. I was absolute putty in this
book’s hands."
*Alexandra Kleeman*
"It Lasts Forever is sad, shocking, funny, prophetic,
visceral, and deeply human. From amid the dislocations, the
lacerations, a profound meditation arises. Highly recommended."
*Jeff VanderMeer*
"De Marcken never loses sight of the grand themes of life, death,
and decay, as the narrator riffs cleverly on the nature of her
condition (‘Zombies used to be drug addicts, television
watchers, videogame players. Now zombies are zombies. Consumers are
consumers’). It amounts to a sharp and weighty depiction of
what does and doesn’t make someone human."
*Publishers Weekly*
"Anne de Marcken's It Lasts Forever and Then It's
Over is a superb and feral work, moving without
hesitation through grief, through dust, and therefore through time.
The sighing soil, oh. It is a soft rumination, a devastating ode to
lateness, solitude, yearning. To the fleeting body. It is a quiet
thing filled with contradictions—about movement and then stillness,
or about rows upon rows of objects, planted or felled; about
repetition. Are we not all planted or felled? I located myself on
this crossing. I will return to it more, more. A gem."
*Giada Scodellaro*
"????? Soul-stirringly expansive, darkly comic and metaphysical…
Our culture is obsessed with completion and conclusions, despite
being in a world that never concludes or completes. By resisting
endings, de Marcken’s deeply imaginative novel reflects that world
— our collective story."
*Kate Simpson - The Telegraph*
"It’s hard to imagine a more erudite zombie story. This is de
Marcken’s central trope—and her triumph. She seizes the gut-smeared
cliches of The Walking Dead and recomposes them as a philosophical
odyssey. Better yet, despite her fiction’s core seriousness, its
quest for the Real, her undead stumble through a Grand Guignol
farce. A terrific debut."
*John Domini - The Brooklyn Rail*
"The prose is exquisite and the form is inventive, and there is
plenty of white space between fragments of text and a handful of
doodles. It’s wry and moving and very beautiful."
*Susie Mesure - The Spectator*
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