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Reading Babitz is like being out on the warm open road at sundown, with what she called, in another book, '4\/60 air conditioning'—that is, going 60 miles per hour with all four windows down. You can feel the wind in your hair.” —Dwight Garner, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e“\u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eEve’s Hollywood\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e has become a classic of LA life. 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It’s complex, inconclusive, and incredibly clear-eyed. Moving fluidly between histories of psychoanalysis, desire, ambition, pathology, Wells reminds us of the liminal state we all live in between sickness and health.”\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003e —Chris Kraus, author of Aliens \u0026amp; Anorexia and Summer of Hate\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A Matter of Appearance \u003c\/i\u003ebrilliantly gives language to the body, and measures the distance between the kinds of narratives that tend to be projected onto women’s bodies and the stories these bodies are actually telling. Perceptive, fascinating, superb.\"\u003cb\u003e—Lauren Elkin, author of \u003ci\u003eFlâneuse\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eArt Monsters\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e“Lyrical and enigmatic, ferocious and riveting, \u003ci\u003eA Matter of Appearance\u003c\/i\u003e is a primal scream, a memoir driven by the question of how to survive and make sense—not meaning—of a life of invisible physical suffering.  Emily Wells is a brilliant and enthralling new voice.” \u003cb\u003e—Charmaine Craig, author of \u003ci\u003eMiss Burma\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eMy Nemesis\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eA Matter of Appearance \u003c\/i\u003eis what the genre of 'sick lit' is missing: Wells ties up the loose ends between the rich history of hysteria, consumption, and modern stories of autoimmunity, while resisting the maudlin. Absolutely dazzling.\" \u003cb\u003e—Lena Dunham\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\"Precise and unflinching, yet full of beauty,\u003ci\u003e A Matter of Appearance\u003c\/i\u003e draws impressive clarity from centuries of sources, which Wells deftly aligns to illuminate the conditions of living within the contradictions of womanhood and a human body.\" \u003cb\u003e— Kamala Puligandla, author of \u003ci\u003eZigzags\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublisher: Seven Stories Press\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Golden Hour Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45954791899436,"sku":"","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0793\/4623\/7740\/files\/amatterofappearance.jpg?v=1692816548"},{"product_id":"a-sand-book-by-ariana-reines","title":"A Sand Book: Poems by Ariana Reines","description":"\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eWinner of the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eLonglisted for the National Book Award\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e“Her writing is queer and raunchy, raw and occult, seemingly never pulling away from her deepest vulnerabilities. Yet Reines simultaneously maintains a feeling of epic poetry, of ancient intention.” —Diana Arterian,\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eA Sand Book\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eis a poetry collection in twelve parts, a travel guide that migrates from wildfires to hurricanes, tweety bird to the president, lust to aridity, desertification to prophecy, and mother to daughter. It explores the negative space of what is happening to language and to consciousness in our strange and desperate times. From Hurricane Sandy to the murder of Sandra Bland to the massacre at Sandy Hook, from the sand in the gizzards of birds to the desertified mountains of Haiti, from Attar's “Conference of the Birds” to Chaucer’s “Parliament of Fowls” to Twitter,\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eA Sand Book\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eis about change and quantification, the relationship between catastrophe and cultural transmission. It moves among houses of worship and grocery stores, flitters between geological upheaval and the weird weather of the Internet. In her long-awaited follow-up to\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eMercury\u003c\/em\u003e, Reines has written her most ambitious work to date, but also her most visceral and satisfying.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"quoteReview\"\u003e\n\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\n\u003ctable data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\n\u003ctbody data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\n\u003ctr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\n\u003ctd data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"contribBio\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eAriana Reines\u003c\/strong\u003e is author of\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eMercury\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e(2011)\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe Cow\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e(2006) and\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eCoeur de Lion\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e(2007). Her play\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eTelephone\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003ewas produced at the Cherry Lane Theater and won several Obie awards. Reines was 2009 Roberta C. Holloway Lecturer in Poetry at the University of California Berkeley; she has taught master classes at Pomona College, the University of California Davis, and the University of Pittsburgh. She lives in New York, NY.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003c\/tbody\u003e\n\u003c\/table\u003e\n\"Her writing is queer and raunchy, raw and occult, seemingly never pulling away from her deepest vulnerabilities. Yet Reines simultaneously maintains a feeling of epic poetry, of ancient intention. She moves between worlds in search of the divine and the self.\" -\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"quoteReview\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"quoteReview\"\u003e\"Reines navigates existential calamity as she does literature and language. . . .\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eA Sand Book\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eshows her consciousness at its most expansive and integrated to date. These poems understand nothing so well as their own inevitable incompleteness—that no composition could contain everything, that every history is partial\" -\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"quoteReview\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"quoteReview\"\u003e\"Reines' wildly rewarding poems are connected through clarity of voice, generous irreverence, and seemingly limitless purview. . . it truly contains multitudes.\" -\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eBooklist\u003c\/em\u003e, Starred Review\u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"quoteReview\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"quoteReview\"\u003e\"These are the kinds of poems that reorient you in the world, make you understand how little you know, but how much is inside you. Lines like 'the suffering of woman is \/ the story of the universe' will linger in the front of your skull, imprinting themselves on your consciousness in a way that feels risky and real, like you've unlocked the key to some hidden truth, some undiscovered light.\" -\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eNYLON\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"quoteReview\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"quoteReview\"\u003e\"Maybe you don't automatically reach for poetry when you're plugging the Coors into your beach cooler, but Ariana Reines'\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eA Sand Book\u003c\/em\u003e is an epic, perfect beach read. At nearly 400 pages, this gorgeous and terrifying travelogue and book of mourning has enough poems to get you from blue June to haunted October. \" -\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eKaren Russell,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eGQ\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"quoteReview\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"quoteReview\"\u003e\"\u003cem\u003eA Sand Book\u003c\/em\u003e’s achievement, in its lyricism and its philosophy, cannot be understated. With this book of books, Reines transmits and distills the miasma of our reality—in all of its impossible completeness—in order to leave us with something that feels like truth.\" -\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eSSENSE\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"quoteReview\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"quoteReview\"\u003e\"Reines’s books are works of intellectual commitment and structural sophistication; at the same time, they allow the raw stuff of being, in all its messiness, to enter the page. . . . It is Western poetry returned to its ‘epic’ classical origins—meaty and full of drama, with more Big Dick Energy than any ‘Great American Novel’.\" -\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe White Review\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"quoteReview\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"quoteReview\"\u003e\"Read her for the power of her vision, and for her willingness to look at tragedy, whether personal or planetary, head-on. As the planet grows hotter, as civilization becomes increasingly brutal, banal, and irreal, a voice as powerful as Reines’s is too valuable to neglect. \u003cem\u003eA Sand Book\u003c\/em\u003e is a necessary guide to a future rapidly becoming the present, a map of the desert we all have to navigate.\" -\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eAdroit Journal\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"quoteReview\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"quoteReview\"\u003e\"Reines opens us to new possible uses of language.\" -\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eHong Kong Review of Books\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"quoteReview\"\u003e\"Mind-blowing.\" -\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eKim Gordon\u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"quoteReview\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"quoteReview\"\u003e\"Ariana Reines is my favorite living poet, and\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eA Sand Book\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eis one of her greatest acts of alchemy: a poetic supernova transcending magazine feminism, faultless views, the branding of basically everything. To be fully human requires an act of sorcery nowadays, and Reines is that sorceress.\" -\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMelissa Broder, author of\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Pisces\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"quoteReview\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"quoteReview\"\u003e\"Ariana Reines is a go-for-broke artist who honors her traditions by being like no one else. Some of us have made a fetish of our stupidity, pretending to forget history, and some of us have made a fetish of despair, congratulating ourselves on melancholia, but Ariana is too brilliant and too alive for either of those sad luxuries. Her poems and various performances and even her posts are fetishes in a much deeper sense: they are sites of (and screens for) irrational and transpersonal powers. I am convinced of the authenticity of the summonses she receives and the summonses she issues and when I read her I am reminded that all of this is a calling before it’s an identity or career. Her voice—which is always more than hers alone—is a dialectic between the very ancient and the bleeding edge. I just looked up 'bleeding edge' on Wikipedia and here is what it says: 'A technology may be considered bleeding edge where it contains a degree of risk.' There might be 'a lack of consensus.' Or 'a lack of testing.' There might be 'industry resistance to change.' With Ariana’s art the risks are real and we should run them.\" -\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBen Lerner, author of\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Topeka School\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"quoteReview\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ePublisher: Tin House\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Golden Hour Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45958427607340,"sku":"","price":17.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0793\/4623\/7740\/files\/asandbook.jpg?v=1692816697"},{"product_id":"cake-zine","title":"Cake Zine: Humble Pie (Volume 3)","description":"\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv data-mce-fragment=\"1\" class=\"product__title\"\u003e\n\u003ch1 data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/h1\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv data-mce-fragment=\"1\" class=\"product__description rte quick-add-hidden\"\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\" style=\"text-decoration: underline;\" data-mce-style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\" style=\"font-weight: 400;\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eCake Zine\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\" style=\"font-weight: 400;\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eis a hedonistic exploration of history, pop culture, literature, and art through sweets. 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As she carefully documents her grief and interrogates her past, the narrator of Oksana Vasyakina’s autobiographical novel meditates on queerness, death, and love and finds new words for understanding her relationship with her mother, her country, her sexuality, and her identity as an artist.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eA sensual, whip-smart account of the complicated dynamics of queer life in present-day Siberia and Moscow, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eWound\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eis also in conversation with feminist thinkers and artists, including Susan Sontag, Louise Bourgeois, and Monique Wittig, locating Vasyakina’s work in a rich and exciting international literary tradition.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e* * * * *\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePraise for WOUND\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e \u003ci\u003eLGBTQ Reads\u003c\/i\u003e, A Most Anticipated Title of the Year\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"[A] magnificent debut . . . which will take you on a journey unlike any other.\" —Chaya Colman and Sophie Ezra, \u003ci\u003eGlamour\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A target of censorship in Russia, Wound holds nothing back in its exploration of complex relationships, including lesbian ones . . . A wide-ranging novel that reflects on death, grief, womanhood, creativity, and women’s sexuality.\" —Eileen Gonzalez, \u003ci\u003eForeword Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"One of Russia’s most exciting new voices . . . A sensual, whip-smart account of the complicated dynamics of queer life in present-day Siberia and Moscow, \u003ci\u003eWound\u003c\/i\u003e is also in conversation with feminist thinkers and artists, including Susan Sontag, Louise Bourgeois, and Monique Wittig, locating Vasyakina’s work in a rich and exciting international literary tradition.\" —\u003ci\u003eLGBTQ Reads\u003c\/i\u003e, A Most Anticipated Title of the Year\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"[A] stirring English-language debut . . . The narrative is distinguished by its dry wit and philosophical import, which Alter . . . renders in razor-sharp prose . . . Vasyakina stuns with this bold and emotionally raw chronicle.\" —\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly \u003c\/i\u003e(starred review)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Vasyakina uses every tool at her disposal to try and make sense of death and its relation to memory. What’s left is a deeply intimate novel, and the sense that the mother-daughter relationship at its heart is evolving still.\" —\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Oksana Vasyakina’s sensitive novel about the death of her mother doubles as a ferociously intelligent portrait of a vast and brutal country, traumEugeneatized by traumatized men. Elina Alter does justice to Vasyakina’s style, whose clarity and unpretentiousness results in a work of great inner power.\" —Eugene Ostashevsky, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Feeling Sonnets\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ctable\u003e\n\u003ctbody\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"contribBio\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e \u003cspan\u003eAbout the Author \u0026amp; Translator\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"contribBio\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"contribBio\"\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eOKSANA VASYAKINA\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eis a Russian poet and curator. Her debut poetry collection,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eWomen’s Prose\u003c\/i\u003e, was short-listed for the Andrei Bely Prize in 2016, and the original Russian-language edition of\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eWound\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003ewon the NOS Prize in 2021. She lives in Moscow, where she teaches courses on writing and feminist literature.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eELINA ALTER\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eis a writer and translator. Her work appears in\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Los Angeles Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eBOMB\u003c\/i\u003e,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Paris Review\u003c\/i\u003e,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe New England Review\u003c\/i\u003e, and elsewhere. She is the editor of\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eCircumference\u003c\/i\u003e, a journal of translation and international culture.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003c\/tbody\u003e\n\u003c\/table\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublisher: Catapult\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Golden Hour Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46301339582764,"sku":"","price":27.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0793\/4623\/7740\/files\/wound.jpg?v=1691888044"},{"product_id":"good-women-stories-by-halle-hill","title":"Good Women: Stories by Halle Hill (9\/12\/23)","description":"\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eIn her dynamic debut, Halle Hill’s \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eGood Women\u003c\/em\u003e delves into the lives of twelve Black women across the Appalachian South. \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eA woman boards a Greyhound bus barreling toward Florida to meet her sugar daddy’s mother; a state fair employee considers revenge on a local preacher; a sister struggles with guilt as she helps her brother plan to run away with a man he's seeing in secret; a young woman who works for a scam for-profit college navigates the lies she sells for a living. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eDarkly funny and deeply human, \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eGood Women\u003c\/em\u003e observes how place, blood ties, generational trauma, obsession, and boundaries—or lack thereof—influence how we navigate our small worlds, and how those worlds so often collide in ways we don’t expect. 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They are curious, messy, and determined, and Hill's fierce and dazzling pen lets us feel every ounce of their complicated desires. Every mistake, every realization, every triumph, every tragedy. This is a fantastic firecracker of a collection I'll return to again and again!\"\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e—Deesha Philyaw, author of\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Secret Lives of Church Ladies\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Halle Hill is a major artist, one of the most astounding I know of living today. \u003cem\u003eGood Women\u003c\/em\u003e, her first collection of stories, sits dominant on the shelf next to the other classic story collections I admire. She’s written a future classic. 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In this unforgettable debut,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eGood Women\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e(pun intended) travel viscerally, becoming trapped in your fingertips every time you turn the page.\"\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e—Kendra Allen, author of \u003cem\u003eFruit Punch\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e* * * * * \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eHalle Hill\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is from East Tennessee and lives in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. A graduate of Maryville College and the M.F.A. Writing program at Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD), she is the winner of the 2021 Crystal Wilkinson Creative Writing Prize and was a finalist for the 2021 ASME Award for Fiction. 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And in prose, poems, and journal entries, she documents all the absurdity and repulsiveness of growing a creature in your body and then raising it. It is a magnificent and satisfying meditation. One of the most honest and revelatory works of fiction about motherhood I have ever read. Ravn’s writing is ecstatic, philosophical, and addictive.\" - Heather O'Neill\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"quoteReview\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"quoteReview\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e* * * * * \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"contribBio\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout the Author \u0026amp; Translators\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"contribBio\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"contribBio\"\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eOlga Ravn\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e(born 1986) is a Danish novelist and poet. 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Together, they have translated fiction and poetry by Danish writers such as Tove Ditlevsen, Marianne Larsen, and Rakel Haslund-Gjerrild.\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Golden Hour Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46301753639212,"sku":"","price":18.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0793\/4623\/7740\/files\/mywork.jpg?v=1691888803"},{"product_id":"cross-stitch-a-novel-by-jazmina-barrera-translated-by-christina-macsweeney","title":"Cross-Stitch: A Novel by Jazmina Barrera (Translated by Christina MacSweeney) (11\/7\/23)","description":"\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA debut novel of female friendship and coming-of-age from Jazmina Barrera, acclaimed author of\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\" class=\"Apple-converted-space\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eLinea Nigra \u003c\/i\u003eand\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\" class=\"Apple-converted-space\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eOn Lighthouses\u003c\/i\u003e, translated by Christina MacSweeney.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eIt was meant to be the trip of a lifetime.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\" class=\"apple-converted-space\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eMila, Citlali, and Dalia, childhood friends now college aged, leave Mexico City for the England of The Clash and the Paris of Courbet. They anticipate the cafés and crushes, but not the early signs that they are each steadily, inevitably changing.\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\" class=\"apple-converted-space\"\u003e \u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThat feels like forever ago. Mila, now a writer and a new mother, has just published a book on needlecraft—an art form so long dismissed as “women’s work.” But after learning Citlali has drowned, Mila begins to sift through her old scrapbooks, reflecting on their shared youth for the first time as a new wife and mother. What has come of all the nights the three friends spent embroidering together in silence? Did she miss the signs that Citlali needed help?\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"expandContent\"\u003e* * * * * \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"expandContent\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"expandContent\" id=\"desc_contributorbio1949641538-content\"\u003e\n\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eOne of the Most Anticipated Books of 2023 (\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe Millions\u003c\/i\u003e)\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eOne of the Best Books of the 2023 So Far (\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eChicago Review of Books\u003c\/em\u003e)\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eA Publishers Lunch Buzz Book Selection for 2023\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e“Jazmina Barrera’s\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eCross Stitch\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eis a beautifully woven tale of friendship, coming of age, womanhood, and loss that never shies away from the complexity of grief—all while honoring the joy that is to be found in life. Masterfully written, and with a fascinating history of the art of needlework stitched throughout, here is a delicate novel in which embroidery becomes a breathtaking language unto itself. Christina MacSweeney perfectly captures Jazmina Barrera’s poetic voice in this incredibly precise and moving translation.” \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e—Isaac Fitzgerald, author of\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eDirtbag, Massachusetts: A Confessional\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e“Barrera embroiders a tender story of friendship and loss, intricately weaving the complexities of womanhood, self-discovery, and the human experiences that bind us.”\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e—Reyna Grande, author of\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eA Ballad of Love and Glory\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e“Never has a novel about friendship rung truer to me than this one. This is literary art at its most insightful, most tender, most wise.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eCross-Stitch\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eis a soft-spoken, hyper-articulate masterpiece. ”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e—John Wray, author of\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eGone to the Wolves\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ePraise for Jazmina Barrera\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e“\u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eLinea Nigra \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eis a beautiful and lucid essay about the journey across motherhood seasons – pregnancy, childbirth and first months of parenting. Far from mythologizing motherhood as an idealized state, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eLinea Nigra\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e sheds light on the complex and contradictory nature of gestation: a state crossed by terrors, but also by hopes and love; a biological and spiritual mystery that concerns all human beings, as individuals and as a society.” \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e—Fernanda Melchor, \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe Guardian,\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eon \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eLinea Nigra\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e“A strange, slim, hybrid book…disarmingly fresh and provocative.…[Barrera’s] is a vision of art as feminine, never truly original or new, but a cycle: art as birth and death; bodies decomposing in the dirt, the roots ‘the tree of our flesh.’” \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e—Christine Henneberg, \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eNew York Review of Books, \u003c\/i\u003eon \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eLinea Nigra\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e“Clear-eyed and poetic…[A] generous, openhearted project inviting readers to discover what is often hidden away, unseen.” \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e—\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eLos Angeles Review of Books \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eon\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eLinea Nigra\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e“Eminently worthy of acclaim.” \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e—Vogue\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e (The Best Books of 2022 So Far) on\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eLinea Nigra\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e“Lighthouses, the ‘frontier between civilization and nature,’ are places of solitude. But they are also signals of shore and home. This book is a light at the end of the tunnel, showing us places we’ll see and things we’ll do when we can go out again.” \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e—\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe Paris Review\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eon\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eOn Lighthouses\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e“Precise and erudite, Barrera’s writing is as alluring and arresting as the landscapes and stories it conveys. Each piece is crafted with care, imbued with Barrera’s poignant critical sense and her perspicacious ability to unravel the different levels of affect, historicity, and magnificence that constitute the everyday life of each lighthouse.” \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e—Ignacio M. Sánchez, \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eLos Angeles Review of Books \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eon \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eOn Lighthouses\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e“A slim, idiosyncratic history of these structures and their appearances in literature—from Robert Louis Stevenson, whose father and grandfather engineered them, to Virginia Woolf, to Ray Bradbury—the book allows the reader flashes of Barrera’s emotional life amid the accumulated detail.” \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e—Harper’s \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eon \u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eOn Lighthouses\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"expandContent\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"expandContent\"\u003e\n\u003ctable\u003e\n\u003ctbody\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"contribBio\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author \u0026amp; Translator\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"contribBio\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"contribBio\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"contribBio\"\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eJazmina Barrera\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003ewas born in Mexico City in 1988. She has published work in various print and digital media, such as\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eParis Review, El Malpensante, Words Without Borders, El País, The New York Times\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eand\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eElectric Literature\u003c\/em\u003e. She has a Master's Degree in Creative Writing in Spanish from New York University, which she completed with the support of a Fulbright grant. She is the author of four books in Spanish:\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eCuerpo extraño\u003c\/em\u003e,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eCuaderno de faros\u003c\/em\u003e,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eLinea nigra\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eand the children's book,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eLos nombres de los animales and Punto de cruz.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eHer books have been published in nine countries and translated to English, Dutch, Portuguese Italian and French. Her book of essays\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eCuerpo extraño (Foreign Body)\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003ewas awarded the Latin American Voices prize by Literal Publishing in 2013. Cuaderno de faros was long listed for the von Rezzori award. The English version of\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eCuaderno de faros\u003c\/em\u003e,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eOn Lighthouses\u003c\/em\u003e, (Two Lines Press, 2020) was chosen for the Indie Next list by Indie Bound.\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eLinea Nigra\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003ewas a finalist for the National Book Critics Cricle's Gregg Barrios Book in Translation Prize, the National Book Critics Circle Autobiography Prize, CANIEM's Book of the Year Award, and the Amazon Primera Novela (First Novel) Award. She is editor and co-founder of Ediciones Antílope. She lives in Mexico City. Author photo by Rodrigo Jardón.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"contribBio\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"contribBio\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"contribBio\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChristina MacSweeney\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan\u003e (Translator) \u003c\/span\u003ehas an MA in Literary Translation from the University of East Anglia. Her work has been recognized in a number of important awards. Her translation of Valeria Luiselli's\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Story of My Teeth\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003ewas awarded the 2016 Valle Inclán Translation Prize and also shortlisted for the Dublin Literary Award (2017). Her most recent translations include fiction and nonfiction works by Daniel Saldaña París, Elvira Navarro, Verónica Gerber Bicecci, Julián Herbert, Jazmina Barrera, and Karla Suárez. She has also contributed to anthologies of Latin American literature and published translations, articles and interviews on a variety of platforms.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003c\/tbody\u003e\n\u003c\/table\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Golden Hour Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46302168187180,"sku":"","price":24.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0793\/4623\/7740\/files\/crossstitch.jpg?v=1691890124"},{"product_id":"alone-reflections-on-solitary-living-by-daniel-schreiber-translated-by-ben-fergusson","title":"Alone: Reflections on Solitary Living by Daniel Schreiber (Translated by Ben Fergusson) (9\/8\/23)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA book for our times: a moving meditation on the tension between loneliness and freedom, individualism and love.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eAt no time before have so many people lived alone, and never has loneliness been so widely or keenly felt. Why, in a society of individualists, is living alone perceived as a shameful failure? And can we ever be happy on our own? Drawing on personal experience, as well as philosophy and sociology, Daniel Schreiber explores the tension between the desire for solitude and freedom, and the desire for companionship, intimacy, and love. Along the way he illuminates the role that friendships play in our lives—can they be a response to the loss of meaning in a world in crisis? A profoundly enlightening book on how we want to live, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eAlone\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e spent almost a year on Germany’s bestseller list.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e* * * * * \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"quoteReview\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePraise for ALONE\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\"Drawing on personal experience, as well as philosophy and sociology, Schreiber explores the tensions between our desire for solitude and our need for companionship and intimacy. The result is a ‘profoundly enlightening look at loneliness in modern life.'”\u003c\/div\u003e\n-Bookseller\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"quoteReview\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"quoteReview\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e“The most moving, memorable books are the ones that attempt to answer questions that the author has been struggling with for his entire life. In\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eAlone\u003c\/i\u003e, Schreiber—a beautiful writer and, just as important, a beautiful thinker—explores the questions of not just his life, but our age: Who am I if no one loves me? What are the limits of friendship? How does one live with deep and profound loneliness? This is a book for not just this year, but this era.”\u003c\/div\u003e\n-Hanya Yanagihara, author of \"A Little Life\"\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"quoteReview\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"quoteReview\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e“Schreiber has written a brave and searching vindication of single life, a book about the cultivation and tending of solitude, about solitude as an art. Amid the bewildering loss of everydayness imposed by the pandemic, when solitude was not chosen but enforced, Schreiber creates in these pages a moving conversation—with philosophers and poets, theorists and novelists—about the sources of value in our lives. By multiplying our sense of those sources, by insisting on the dignity of models of life that have sometimes been disparaged, this book finally becomes a document of liberation.”\u003c\/div\u003e\n-Garth Greenwell, author of \"Cleanness\"\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"quoteReview\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"quoteReview\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e“This is a book to love and to cherish. Schreiber is such a skilled and engaging writer. Without sentimentality, he digs into the taboo subject of loneliness—societal, personal, existential; the salvation of hiking, the many dimensions of friendship, the solace of literature, the value of kindness, the pleasures of solitude. You will meet Nietzsche, Sappho, Arendt—and perhaps you will meet yourself, walking in the hills, thinking about new ways to live.”\u003c\/div\u003e\n-Deborah Levy\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"quoteReview\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"quoteReview\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\"An intelligent, moving, and heartfelt meditation on the mixed joys and sorrows of solitude. Schreiber's prose is gorgeous, practically silken, and he wears his erudition so lightly that he is the best possible guide on this journey to the elegant lunar landscape of aloneness.\"\u003c\/div\u003e\n-Lauren Groff, author of \"Matrix\" and \"Fates and Furies\"\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"quoteReview\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"quoteReview\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e“Oh my god, I tore through this breathtaking book!\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eAlone\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eis gorgeously, sensitively written and yet so explicit in its honesty and vulnerability. I connected with it deeply and personally—I truly loved it.”\u003c\/div\u003e\n-Jami Attenberg, author of “All This Could Be Yours” and “I Came All This Way to Meet You”\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"quoteReview\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"quoteReview\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\"This is a book to love and to cherish. 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You will meet Nietzsche, Sappho, Arendt—and perhaps you will meet yourself, walking in the hills, thinking about new ways to live.\"\u003c\/div\u003e\n-Deborah Levy, author of \"The Cost of Living\" and \"August Blue\"\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"quoteReview\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"quoteReview\"\u003e* * * * * \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"quoteReview\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"contribBio\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author \u0026amp; Translator\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eDaniel Schreiber\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eis the author of\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eSusan Sontag\u003c\/i\u003e, the first complete biography of the intellectual icon, as well as the highly praised and bestselling German-language literary essays\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eNüchtern\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eand\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eZuhause\u003c\/i\u003e. 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Mueller's many mise en scènes—the Baltimore of John Waters, post-Stonewall Provincetown, avant-garde Italy, 1980s New York, an America enduring Reagan and AIDS—patches together a singular personal history and a primer for others. As Laing writes in her introduction, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eCollected Stories\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e amounts to \"a how-to manual for a life ricocheting joyously off the rails . . . a live corrective to conformity, conservatism, and cruelty.\"\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e* * * * * \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout the Author and Contributors\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCookie Mueller\u003c\/strong\u003e (1949–1989), nee Dorothy Karen Mueller, played leading roles in John Waters’s \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003ePink Flamingos\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eFemale Trouble\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eDesperate Living,\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e and \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eMultiple Maniacs\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e. She wrote for the \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eEast Village Eye\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e and \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eDetails\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e magazine, performed in a series of plays by Gary Indiana, and wrote numerous stories that would only be published posthumously. She died in New York City of AIDS-related complications at age 40.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eOlivia Laing\u003c\/strong\u003e is the author of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eCrudo\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eTo the River\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Trip to Echo Spring\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, and \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Lonely City\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, which was shortlisted for the National Book Critics Circle Award and translated into fifteen languages. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eChris Kraus\u003c\/strong\u003e is the author of four novels, including \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eI Love Dick\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e and \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eSummer of Hate\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e; two books of art and cultural criticism; and most recently, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eAfter Kathy Acker: A Literary Biography\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e* * * * * \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePraise for Cookie Mueller\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\"Mueller’s unflappability, her refusal of stasis and self-pity, her hunger for beauty, her readiness to find it where few else would look—all of it adds up into a singular code for living, in which the worst thing a person could do is flinch.\"\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e—Jia Tolentino,\u003ci\u003e The New Yorker\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e“\u003ci\u003eWalking Through Clear Water in a Pool Painted Black\u003c\/i\u003e is a cult classic for writers... the reissue’s new (to us) pieces demonstrate Mueller’s artistic process. They also map out her singular approach to life.”\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e—\u003c\/i\u003eNatasha Stagg, \u003ci\u003eBookforum\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e“Her chronicles of the last days of American countercultural life New York's downtown scene bursts with energy.”\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e—Zoe Dubno, \u003ci\u003eThe Nation\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e“It’s not just the stories that are exciting, it’s the revelation they contain—that we might allow such wildness to stumble on to our own paths, even just for an afternoon. 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