The fugly and unfuckable, dirty yet very human desires of a few lost souls get exposed in a forthcoming collection of short stories by Filip Jakab. His outsiders, gnarled weirdos and schmucks, optimise themselves in scenes of trial and error. A gym bro trips on his boyfriend’s meds. An escort worker leaves Brussels’ Steigenberger Wiltcher’s hotel to find that his two friends are missing. A hunk obsessively maintains his body so his boyfriend can fuck it up. Yearning for connection and self-improvement, this cast of unsteady characters often climax over the existential cliffs with no point of return.
- As part of
- Brussels Ass Book Fair
- Date
- 13:00 — 13:30
- Location
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Box 2
For the Brussels Ass Book Fair, Filip Jakab will read a new story delving into one man’s sexual addiction and kink for electric cars.
He got off on their lulling sounds. The car’s hybrid insights were calling for him. It started when he was 21. He rubbed himself against his neighbor’s white Tesla. It was like being addicted to a cluster of lithium batteries.
Filip Jakab is a writer and editor based between Brussels and Zürich. His short fiction has appeared in XRAY Literary Magazine, ExPat Press, and David Horvitz’s Garden. He contributes reviews, profiles and conversation pieces to Vogue CS, Gagosian Quarterly, the Whitney Review of New Writing, Public Parking, Our Culture Mag, and Flaunt. In December 2024, he completed a creative writing programme at Stanford University. He writes the Substack life eats life.