{"product_id":"black-bag","title":"Black Bag","description":"\u003cb\u003e\"Tremendously deft . . . it had me laughing, unnerved, and hopeful as it galloped through a true and strange world.\" --Emily Nemens, bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eThe Cactus League\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAn out-of-work actor accepts the role of a lifetime--sitting soundlessly in a lecture theater, zipped into a large leather bag--to aid a professor's psychological experiment. What could possibly go wrong? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn Luke Kennard's audacious new novel, a penniless and out-of-work actor picks up a job working for Dr. Blend, a university professor who is conducting a psychological experiment. How will Dr. Blend's students react to someone zipped into an oversized bag, sitting at the back of the lecture hall over a series of Fall lectures? The role, eagerly accepted, soon has unexpected consequences. A professor of post-humanism develops research questions of her own--in particular, can you love someone secreted away inside a black bag?--and the actor's childhood friend forms a vision for monetizing this new situation . . . \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA warped campus novel, an investigation into the crisis of masculinity, and an off-kilter love story, \u003ci\u003eBlack Bag\u003c\/i\u003e is a firework of a novel: blazingly funny and profoundly humane. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"A genre-defying, big-swing of a novel . . . a sharply funny meditation on masculinity, academia, the modern attention economy, and the quiet desperation of everyday life.\" --Andrew Boryga, author of \u003ci\u003eVictim\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cdiv style=\"display:none\"\u003eISBN-10: 1638933383\u003cbr\u003eISBN-13: 9781638933380\u003cbr\u003eAuthor: Kennard, Luke\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Zando\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Zando","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover (Mar 2026)","offer_id":46099748683973,"sku":"9781638933380","price":25.2,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0708\/6414\/2533\/files\/9781638933380.jpg?v=1776644449","url":"https:\/\/www.inveni.store\/products\/black-bag","provider":"Inveni","version":"1.0","type":"link"}