About the Book: Black Bag
In Luke Kennards 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 Blends students react to someone zipped
into on oversized bag, sitting at the back of the lecture hall over a series of
autumn term 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?
Meanwhile, the actors childhood friend and flatmate forms a vision for
monetising this new situation