The Suiciders

{{Short description|2013 novel by Travis Jeppesen}} {{Use mdy dates|date=March 2025}} {{Infobox book |name = The Suiciders |image = File:The Suiciders.jpg |caption = First edition |author = Travis Jeppesen |cover_artist = Bjarne Melgaard |country = United States |language = English |genre = |publisher = Semiotext(e) |release_date = 2013 |media_type = Print |pages = 232 |isbn = 9781584351252 }}

'''''The Suiciders''''' is a 2013 novel by Travis Jeppesen. Jeppesen's experimental, non-linear narrative novel is about a group of queer squatters who declare war against their own minds and embark upon a road trip to the end of the world. The work was described by the publisher as a "post-punk nouveau roman." In his review of the book, the novelist Blake Butler described the novel as such: "There are 10,000 plots per page. It is in the accumulation of the plots, and the fantastic charging of Jeppesen's total mish-mash of syntax, physics, framing, voice, and possibility, that keeps you reading."<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://thefanzine.com/what-the-witch-doctor-says-a-review-of-travis-jeppesens-suiciders/|title="WHAT THE WITCH DOCTOR SAYS": A REVIEW OF TRAVIS JEPPESEN'S THE SUICIDERS; Fanzine|via=thefanzine.com}}</ref> Another critic assessed the novel as "shocking, funny, and thought-provoking...a piece of abstract visual art, but constructed with words."<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.lambdaliterary.org/2013/10/the-suiciders-by-travis-jeppesen/|title='The Suiciders' by Travis Jeppesen; Lambda Literary|date=29 October 2013 |via=lambdaliterary.org}}</ref>

Shortly after the novel was published, Jeppesen twice performed "marathon readings" of the entire book without pause for over eight hours. The first reading took place in London at the Institute of Contemporary Arts, while the second was held in New York at the Whitney Museum of Art.<ref>{{cite web |title=Travis Jeppesen: Marathon reading of The Suiciders |url=https://whitney.org/Events/TravisJeppesenMarathonReading |website=Whitney Museum of American Art |accessdate=5 July 2021}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Travis Jeppesen Reads The Suiciders |url=https://archive.ica.art/whats-on/travis-jeppesen-reads-suiciders-1 |website=ICA |accessdate=5 July 2021}}</ref>

The cover art of the novel's first edition was created by the Norwegian artist Bjarne Melgaard.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Suiciders, The}} Category:Nonlinear narrative novels Category:2013 American novels Category:Experimental literature Category:2010s LGBTQ novels Category:American LGBTQ novels Category:Semiotext(e) books Category:2013 LGBTQ-related literary works