Dodie Bellamy is an American novelist, nonfiction author, journalist, and editor.
Dodie Bellamy's latest work, When the Sick Rule the World, is a series of biting, ouroboric takes on the bi-polar allure of sickness, a fantastic book of psychic bloodletting and cauterizing ironies. The Rumpus Art writers lie. Art lies. Bellamy fishhooks these sentences into an essay that begins with an ingenuous art review, passes through cancer and the Rust Belt, ends with the dreams of a child. And each piece of writing in this book does something similar -- whether it's essay or narrative or both at the same time -- which is to say that no two pieces are alike. Whether she writes about the death of her mother or Occupy Oakland, Kathy Acker's Gaultier dress or Techrification with Heart (in a letter to Twitter), Bellamy never fails to infect the holistic pieties of contemporary culture, to expose art's enduring lies. Flavorwire