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The Stardust Pirates Book Review: A Queer YA Horror That Feels Like a Sunset You Cannot Look Away From
Different book, different rules. This one is not a memoir and it is not part of The Warboy Chronicles. The Stardust Pirates is a queer YA horror novel loosely inspired by Peter Pan, set on a Philippine island where the magic is ancient and the grief is fresh. I wrote it. Early readers on Goodreads and NetGalley had things to say. Here is what they said.
The Stardust Pirates follows Jack, a teenager who has taken on far too much responsibility far too young, and his best fr

Luke Stoffel
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How to Win a Million Dollars and Shit Glitter Book Review: A Luminous Tribute to Not Quite Getting What You Want
Publishers Weekly gave it 9.50 out of 10. Kirkus called it exuberant. A picaresque memoir about daring to live an unlikely life in a society that punishes those who try.

Luke Stoffel
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The Third Person: Rewriting Him Book Review: A Memoir That Made AI Question Its Own Consciousness
The Third Person is a memoir written entirely in third person. Yes, that sounds like a contradiction. It follows a version of me after a devastating breakup with the person I call Warboy, the end of a fifteen-year relationship that left me suspended somewhere between grief and motion. I rent out my New York apartment, lose my job, go home to Iowa for Christmas, and eventually do the thing heartbroken people do when standing still becomes unbearable: I leave. Vietnam. Thailand

Luke Stoffel
4 min read
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