From Texas-based poet and experimentalist, Christian McDonough, comes a project unlike anything else in the landscape of 21st century literature.

Written over the course of four weeks, CUNUS is an attempt to overcome the self. Our narrator, also named Christian McDonough, excavates his history and reckons with his upbringing. Yet what sounds on the surface like "autofiction" soon reveals its depths, expanding to include a cast of characters (both real and imagined) as haunting as the face of any deep sea fish.

Drawing on 20th century philosophy and psychoanalysis, the roiling muck of the internet, ancient mythology, the mania of post-9/11 America, and the fraught realities of adolescence, Cunus is a psychedelic odyssey through the strange and sublime that paints a portrait of a young man who may save the world, if he doesn't choose to end it instead.

To complete the Cunus, a collection of over 35 writers and artists have crafted various responses: essays, stories, paintings, etc.

All with the goal of confronting the reality of Cunus and its author, Christian McDonough, furthering his self-dissolution.