{"product_id":"black-bag-a-novel","title":"Black Bag A Novel","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBy:\u003c\/strong\u003e Luke Kennard\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003ePublished by Zando, 2026-03-17\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn out-of-work actor accepts the role of a lifetime--sitting soundlessly in a lecture theater, zipped into a large leather bag--to aid a professor's psychological experiment. What could possibly go wrong?\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e In Luke Kennard's 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. Blend's students react to someone zipped into an oversized bag, sitting at the back of the lecture hall over a series of Fall 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?--and the actor's childhood friend forms a vision for monetizing this new situation . . .\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e A warped campus novel, an investigation into the crisis of masculinity, and an off-kilter love story, \u003ci\u003eBlack Bag\u003c\/i\u003e is a firework of a novel: blazingly funny and profoundly humane.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Phoenix Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47132513501353,"sku":"PHBK-9781638933380","price":28.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0578\/9899\/1785\/files\/14409713482771.jpg?v=1780117058","url":"https:\/\/myti.com\/products\/black-bag-a-novel","provider":"Myti","version":"1.0","type":"link"}