Man Hating Psycho

Title: Man Hating Psycho Author: Iphgenia Baal ISBN: 9781965028001 Publisher: Hagfish Published: 2025 Binding: Paperback Language: English Number of Pages: 264 Publisher Description: <b>Nine darkly funny stories about the humiliations of our screen-thirsty, socially frayed era by one of the UK's most audacious writers</b><p>In <i>Man Hating Psycho</i>, Iphgenia Baal captures the humor, absurdism, and surreality of online encounters, demonstrating how the indifferent depravity that rules the internet has spilled over into our everyday, face-to-face interactions. In these stories, set in London in the late aughts, young people stage rooftop confessions, DIY group shows, and bowling-alley brawls, and fumble toward a muddled sense of racial and class identity and sexual politics in a world growing increasingly unfamiliar. </p><p>In "Pain in the Neck," a woman's misguided act of generosity toward an old friend leads to one of the worst nights of her