My Meteorite: Or, Without the Random There Can Be No New Thing — Harry Dodge

f you read it, you may or may not recall that (2015), Maggie Nelson’s wildly successful book credited with popularizing the term “autotheory,” was addressed to her partner, the multidisciplinary artist Harry Dodge. Nelson’s book primarily explored the themes of queer love (with Dodge) and becoming a parent (with Dodge). In Dodge finally speaks, and what he has to say is triple the length of Nelson’s book I was rereading when I saw circulating in social media posts—a random coincidence, or as Dodge suggests throughout the book, perhaps not. However, a comparison between the two books is awkward because they are wildly divergent is not, however, as one might assume, Dodge’s side of the story. The book is hardly about sexuality or gender at all; it holds its own strange and unique narrative.