Rita Mookerjee

Dec 13, 2023 | theoffingmag.com | Jean-Luc Bouchard |Rita Mookerjee |Dolan Morgan |Anna Sandy Elrod

When my husband was a child, he tells me, his favorite thing was the Titanic sinking. Not the Titanic, the Titanic sinking. My husband did not have a particular fondness for boats, not even enormous ones, not even the most impressive ones the world had ever seen. What he loved was the wreck: the way that the indestructible was destroyed, the way hubris has an inevitable end that we might as well sit back and admire. He told me this on our first date.

Nov 8, 2023 | theoffingmag.com | Rita Mookerjee |Dolan Morgan |Mike Itaya |Destini Baylis Adams

after Taylor ByasHey, girl. I was at your old house just now. They’re trying to do you dirty. Did you knowthey turned that place into a museum? They even made a replica of that old whitehousecoat and stuck it on a mannequin inyour bedroom near your desk like a headless maidwaiting for you to go downstairs so she can snoopthrough your shit. Speaking of which, the docent isuncomfortable talking about your letters.

Aug 24, 2023 | bookshop.org | Avantpop Bookstore |Rita Mookerjee

False Offering is equal parts rage and rebellion. Mookerjee deftly traces the outrage of a brown femme body in a world where 'white space would always be looming behind, ' where she chooses to be a 'gilded thistle, ' where her 'ashes will glitter, residue in a dragon's wake.' A rambunctious and important debut that everyone should read.