About Black Bag
An 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. 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 conducting a psychological experiment on how her students will react to someone zipped into an oversized bag at the back of the lecture hall. The role, eagerly accepted, soon has unexpected consequences for everyone involved. A warped campus novel, an investigation into the crisis of masculinity, and an off-kilter love story, Black Bag is blazingly funny and profoundly humane.