Unicorn Death Moon: Paris Guidebook

Zachary Cahill’s Unicorn Death Moon: Paris Guidebook is part of our 2024 chapbook series sponsored by a grant from the Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers Association.

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Reviews#

Charles Baudelaire is said to have died a childless man – but did he really? His lunar bloodline certainly appears eerily alive, close to two centuries on, in the singular spells cast by Zachary Cahill – the Francophile bard of unicorn desolation.

Dieter Roelstraete, Curator & Writer

Zachary Cahill’s Unicorn Death Moon: Paris Guidebook provides a path for the perplexed through the city of blinding light. Throughout, Cahill’s rich work marshals the imaginative to ground his reader in what is dark, fantastic, surreal, and magical.

Jacob Henry Leveton, Sites / Sights of Ecology

Zachary Cahill’s Unicorn Death Moon: Paris Guidebook will get you lost, so pleasantly, dreamily lost that along the way as you’re enjoying fantastic drawings such as The Pageantry of the Night Sky and The Queen Gathers Her Emissaries, you might not notice at first that you’re contemplating not only the mythical, but Death. This guidebook offers gentle whimsy, factual statements that may be fiction (“There are at least five secret societies in Paris that worship unicorns”), beautiful poetry, despair, Baudelaire’s spleen, and happiness. And Paris as a sweeping background for the two close friends accompanying you through this guide and staying with you afterward: Unicorn and Death.

Maud Lavin, Silences, Ohio & Mermaids and Lazy Activists: A Lake Michigan Tale

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About the Author#

Zachary Cahill is an interdisciplinary artist based in Chicago. For over a decade he has worked on the USSA, a proposition for a country that uses exhibitionary form as a meditation on nation-state infrastructure and propaganda. More recently, his work has taken a turn towards the genres of fantasy and fairytales.

His art has been featured in the Berlin Biennale, Regina Rex (New York), and the Museum of Contemporary Art (Chicago), among others.

He has given readings, lectures, and conducted performances at The Poetry Foundation, The Renaissance Society, ICA London, and Aarhus Kunstbygning.

Zachary has been featured in the Art Reviews Future Greats issue and was included in the contemporary art survey, The Artist Who Will Change the World, published by Thames and Hudson.

His writings have appeared in Afterall, Artforum, Bad-at-Sports, and Critical Inquiry.

He is the founding editor-in-chief of Portable Gray, a bi-annual arts and ideas journal put out by the University of Chicago Press for the Gray Center for Arts and Inquiry, where he is Director of Programs and Fellowships.

The Black Flame of Paradise, his first novel, was released by Mousse Publishing in 2018.

In 2021, Cahill published the graphic novel Unicorn Death Road Trip Buddy Movie.

More Books#

Zach published Unicorn Death Moon: Day Planner as part of our 2023 Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers Association chapbook series.

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