Delores talks to Barbies and they talk back. There were knickknacks and then there was junk.” Lee and Seymour, along with pissing off Margaret with their pop culture iconography, are aging gay hipsters who wonder how to hold on to their dying relationship as well as their punk-rock ethos in Wichita. High-strung Margaret, seller of high-end cut glass: “There were artifacts and then there were knickknacks. Each chapter of the novel is devoted to a different character, one of the damaged and doomed denizens of the mall. Here, any manner of stuff can be displayed with pride, put on a pedestal, fondled and fetishized. It’s fitting that Heart of Junk takes place in The Heart of America, the largest year-round antiques mall in Kansas. Why this stuff and not that stuff? Why is it important? What stuff should we get rid of, and what should we keep? This idea of stuff is what Geddes is interested in examining in his debut novel Heart of Junk. If our personalities are constructs-momentary personas we build based on social context-what does our stuff say about us? Does it matter that we scout for first editions of our favorite novels, or dig for original mono mixes of The Stooges 7” singles? ![]() But specific material ( pack up your stuff and get out), the tangible-and in some ways intangible-items that make up our belongings: the books on the shelves, the music collection, the Eames lounger, the Le Creuset bit of cookery. Not the indeterminate matter that we refer to when we wave our hands in generalities: you know…stuff. Luke Geddes wants us to think about stuff.
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