Cosmo is a rare publication in that it really is brave enough to explore the ways in which getting loved in private has a extremely real counterpoint in public areas, in the form of popularity, public identification and cultural cache. In doing this, Gordon dissects the notion of the genuine in an progressively public world in which the self is certainly ever more constructed.’ – Country wide Post. An admirer of Miley Cyrus performs a three-thousand word sentence in defence of his interest. Actor Matthew McConaughey descends right into a surreal, about Cosmo stupefying desert from the soul. An aging porn superstar dons a grotesque dinosaur costume to film the sex picture of his existence. Such will be the speakers and stars of the collection of stories that explode the conventions of short fiction. Though shifting wildly in tone, framework and perspective in one page to the next, each of these mercurial tales is certainly drenched in pop culture, the distancing effects of contemporary communication and the malaise of solitary presence. At their primary, these stories are a portrait of ordinary people (aswell as celebrities – they’re exactly like us!) striving, thinking and suffering only.