Wasteland, an art novel by Jason Haaf and Scooter LaForge, is a place you can sink into or try to leave. It is a time when you fell into lust and became glued; it can be a trap or an escape. Combining painting, prose, poetry and collage, authors Haaf and LaForge explore queer intimacy, anger and angst. From relationships to repetitions, Wasteland is an open invitation into a collaborative psyche. The Boys:Jason Haaf is a Brooklyn-based writer and artist working in confession and collage. His debut novel Harsh Cravings reads like a 90-day diary of a strange American summer, while Can I See Your Niche? cuts up and reassembles language into something rawer and stranger still. His work has appeared in Hello Mr., Truant, and The Trapartisan Review, and in 2025 he won the Seattle Erotic Art Fair Foundation Award for Literary Art.Scooter LaForge has spent two decades in the East Village turning art history inside out — vivid, unorthodox, and unmistakably his own. His paintings and sculptures have shown at the Leslie-Lohman Museum, Vienna's Friedrichshof Museum, and Stockholm's Spritmuseum, and a 30-year survey of his work opened at Lesley University in 2024. He also designs wildly inventive clothing through Patricia Field's ArtFashion Gallery, worn by Madonna, Rihanna, and Debbie Harry — proof that LaForge's world spills well beyond the canvas.
