Dodie Bellamy is an American novelist, nonfiction author, journalist, and editor.
Dodie Bellamy's latest work, When the Sick Rule the World, is a
series of biting, ouroboric takes on the bi-polar allure of
sickness, a fantastic book of psychic bloodletting and cauterizing
ironies.—The Rumpus
'Art writers lie. Art lies.' Bellamy fishhooks these sentences into
an essay that begins with an ingenuous art review, passes through
cancer and the Rust Belt, ends with the dreams of a child. And each
piece of writing in this book does something similar—whether it's
essay or narrative or both at the same time—which is to say that no
two pieces are alike. Whether she writes about the death of her
mother or Occupy Oakland, Kathy Acker's Gaultier dress or
'Techrification with Heart' (in a letter to Twitter), Bellamy never
fails to infect the holistic pieties of contemporary culture, to
expose art's enduring lies.—Flavorwire
The beautiful thing about Bellamy and this book is how readily and
insistently she gives herself over.—The Los Angeles Review of
Books
Bellamy's infused wit is the lifeline that keeps the work buoyant,
a line of resistance thrown out for the reader to grab and hold to.
With its raw, sometimes crass observation juxtaposed with neurotic
intellectual analysis, When the Sick Rule the World provides a
peculiar brand of humor that is both a tool of self-examination and
an exercise in revolt.—Lambda Literary Foundation
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