{"product_id":"time-also-will-make-it-interesting-selected-journals-9781643623054","title":"Time Also Will Make It Interesting: Selected Journals","description":"\u003cb\u003eThe selected journals of trans, mixed-race artist and dyke erotica writer Red Jordan Arobateau.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBest known for his erotic lesbian fiction, Red Jordan Arobateau was also a prolific painter who maintained and self-published a journal for roughly twenty years, documenting his life on the \"abject bottom\" of life in the U.S. Edited and introduced by poet and scholar Cameron Awkward-Rich with a foreword by Michelle Tea, and paintings by Arobateau, \u003ci\u003eTime Also Will Make It Interesting\u003c\/i\u003e captures Arobateau's life as a young dyke in the criminalized cultures of 1950s-60s gay bars of Chicago and New York; his transition from dyke to trans man in late 1990s San Francisco; and his return to painting and an unfolding spirituality within that rapidly gentrifying city. \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eQueerly messy, ornery, and stuffed with Arobateau's wisdom, this volume is what he might have called, \"a novel combined with a journal--da novel\/journal! Taking all the liberty in the world! A domain where verse can be inserted, dreams recorded, my everyday political rants printed out, combined with my forté--fiction! All under one binding \u0026amp; title!\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Nightboat Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/23\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781643623054\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 400","brand":"Red Jordan Arobateau","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52472895668405,"sku":"9781643623054","price":19.51,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_9aacb5bd-0df3-4960-bdef-73acaf908820.jpg?v=1777444686","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/time-also-will-make-it-interesting-selected-journals-9781643623054","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}