In 1961, Alex Trocchi, “the Scottish Beat”, was prone to declaring himself in manifestos and interviews “a cosmonaut of innerspace”. In the genre-defying, ambitiously structured quartet of novels known collectively as MY KATE LIKE THE SEASHORE, criminalized novelist Gene Gregorits uses both the Atlantic Ocean and the Gulf of Mexico to explore that innerspace; in a magnificently seedy Times Square of the 80s and 90s, as well as a 2026 New York City in the middle of an apocalyptic terror panic, Gregorits becomes that very “cosmonaut”.

Drawing on works as disparate as Henry Miller’s ROSY CRUCIFIXION, Michele Houllebecq’s THE MAP AND THE TERRITORY, and Van Morrison’s improvisational masterpiece ASTRAL WEEKS, MY KATE LIKE THE SEASHORE spans forty years and some twenty American cities in a triple-narrative, 12-part story cycle which navigates the deepest pathological recesses of the author’s checkered past. Powered by a demonically unrelenting psychosexual thrust, writing in a wholly original language driven by hyperstimulation and mania, Gregorits goes almost entirely metaphysical in his audacious fifth novel, written by hand in a series of Florida prisons between 2016 and 2023. Featuring hundreds of characters, all rendered cringingly true to life while sparing himself nothing in a performance devoid of vanity, the reviled author of the “underground classic” DOG DAYS is back with an unforgettable epic, an incendiary literary breakthrough which stands among the wildest long-form narrative experiments of the last century.

Blending gritty love story, noirish autobiography, pop-cultural memoir, crime fiction, dark-humored World War 3 melodrama, and highly stylized hardcore porn novel, MY KATE LIKE THE SEASHORE is a work hell-bent on losing itself and its reader, only to intersect with them both time and time again; a circular, druggy nightmare of eroticized time travel stretched across the dark oceans of a broken man’s subconsciousness.

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