'Written between 1975 and 1977 from the heart of New York City's art world, Constance DeJong's Modern Love is a forgotten classic of narrative prose innovation. Working largely alone, DeJohn invented a narrative form that's at once intimate and highly constructed. WIlder than the French nouveau roman, Modern Love cannibalizes genre and realist fiction and travels through time to explore the dilemma of being a 27-year old broke female loser who's told by the culture that she's free to say and do anything I want. A powerful influence on her contemporary Kathy Acker, DeJong's Modern Love feels even more radical now than it did when it first came out.'
Chris Kraus