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J.G. Ballard's 1975 novel "High Rise" contains all of the qualities we have come to expect from this author: alarming psychological insights, a study of the profoundly disturbing connections between technology and the human condition, and an intriguing plot masterfully executed. Ballard, who wrote the tremendously troubling "Crash," really knows how to dig deep into our(...)
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J.G. Ballard's 1975 novel "High Rise" contains all of the qualities we have come to expect from this author: alarming psychological insights, a study of the profoundly disturbing connections between technology and the human condition, and an intriguing plot masterfully executed. Ballard, who wrote the tremendously troubling "Crash," really knows how to dig deep into our(...)
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J.G. Ballard's 1975 novel "High Rise" contains all of the qualities we have come to expect from this author: alarming psychological insights, a study of the profoundly disturbing connections between technology and the human condition, and an intriguing plot masterfully executed. Ballard, who wrote the tremendously troubling "Crash," really knows how to dig deep into our troubling times in order to expose our tentative grasp of modernity. Some compare this book to William Golding's "Lord of the Flies," and there are definite characteristics the two novels share. I would argue, however, that "High Rise" is more eloquent and more relevant than Golding's book. Unfortunately, this Ballard novel is out of print. Try and locate a copy at your local library because the payoff is well worth the effort.
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J.G. Ballard's 1975 novel "High Rise" contains all of the qualities we have come to expect from this author: alarming psychological insights, a study of the profoundly disturbing connections between technology and the human condition, and an intriguing plot masterfully executed. Ballard, who wrote the tremendously troubling "Crash," really knows how to dig deep into our troubling times in order to expose our tentative grasp of modernity. Some compare this book to William Golding's "Lord of the Flies," and there are definite characteristics the two novels share. I would argue, however, that "High Rise" is more eloquent and more relevant than Golding's book. Unfortunately, this Ballard novel is out of print. Try and locate a copy at your local library because the payoff is well worth the effort.
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October 2014
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A collection of poems by the architect John Hejduk. Foreword by David Shapiro.
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A collection of poems by the architect John Hejduk. Foreword by David Shapiro.
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John Hejduk: Such places as memory : poems 1953-1996
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A collection of poems by the architect John Hejduk. Foreword by David Shapiro.
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A collection of poems by the architect John Hejduk. Foreword by David Shapiro.
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May 1998
May 1998
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Le désir d'être un volcan
Le désir d'être un volcan
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Les pauvres peuvent-ils être libertins ? Quelles leçons sur les hommes un chat peut-il donner ? Dans quelles circonstances Socrate va-t-il à l'abattoir ? Que disent les prostituées aux philosophes ? Quid de la pourriture de l'œuvre en soi ? Quelles relations entre stupre et stupeur ? Quelle âme ont les pousse-pieds lisboètes ? Comment vivre au pied d'un volcan ? Mondrian(...)
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Les pauvres peuvent-ils être libertins ? Quelles leçons sur les hommes un chat peut-il donner ? Dans quelles circonstances Socrate va-t-il à l'abattoir ? Que disent les prostituées aux philosophes ? Quid de la pourriture de l'œuvre en soi ? Quelles relations entre stupre et stupeur ? Quelle âme ont les pousse-pieds lisboètes ? Comment vivre au pied d'un volcan ? Mondrian(...)
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Le désir d'être un volcan
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Les pauvres peuvent-ils être libertins ? Quelles leçons sur les hommes un chat peut-il donner ? Dans quelles circonstances Socrate va-t-il à l'abattoir ? Que disent les prostituées aux philosophes ? Quid de la pourriture de l'œuvre en soi ? Quelles relations entre stupre et stupeur ? Quelle âme ont les pousse-pieds lisboètes ? Comment vivre au pied d'un volcan ? Mondrian aide-t-il à comprendre Venise ? Qui préférer : Eve, Pénélope, Carmen ou Marie ? Y a-t-il une date pour le suicide d'un nietzschéen ? Que serait une philosophie du panache ? Où peut-on légalement brûler des ouvriers ? Dans quelle ville est la tombe du prince des dandys ? Que peut-on écrire du corps de son père ? En quelle compagnie Maître Kant erre ? Y a-t-il une raison moléculaire ? Qu'est-ce que le syndrome de Gênes ? Quelles mythologies comparées pour l'eau ou le pétrus ? De quelle façon peut-on fixer des vertiges ? Quel écrivain désirait être un volcan ? Comment sculpter de l'énergie ? Faut-il remplir les cercueils de livres ? Une érection peut-elle être un auxiliaire de connaissance ? Don Juan a-t-il trouvé son inspiration capitale dans les arènes ? Que veulent les femmes ? Le libertinage est-il toujours de droite ? Qui a écrit Ainsi parlait Tarass Boulba ? Madame Claude a-t-elle lu Baudelaire ? Où peut-on visiter le cimetière des plaisirs ? Comment peut-on aimer Diogène et de Gaulle ? Pourquoi les pessimistes sont-ils des poseurs ? A quoi ressemble l'odor di femmina ? Sur tous ces sujets, Michel Onfray apporte ses réponses qui sont autant de chapitres de ce livre qui peut, et doit, être lu comme un journal hédoniste.
Le désir d'être un volcan
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Les pauvres peuvent-ils être libertins ? Quelles leçons sur les hommes un chat peut-il donner ? Dans quelles circonstances Socrate va-t-il à l'abattoir ? Que disent les prostituées aux philosophes ? Quid de la pourriture de l'œuvre en soi ? Quelles relations entre stupre et stupeur ? Quelle âme ont les pousse-pieds lisboètes ? Comment vivre au pied d'un volcan ? Mondrian aide-t-il à comprendre Venise ? Qui préférer : Eve, Pénélope, Carmen ou Marie ? Y a-t-il une date pour le suicide d'un nietzschéen ? Que serait une philosophie du panache ? Où peut-on légalement brûler des ouvriers ? Dans quelle ville est la tombe du prince des dandys ? Que peut-on écrire du corps de son père ? En quelle compagnie Maître Kant erre ? Y a-t-il une raison moléculaire ? Qu'est-ce que le syndrome de Gênes ? Quelles mythologies comparées pour l'eau ou le pétrus ? De quelle façon peut-on fixer des vertiges ? Quel écrivain désirait être un volcan ? Comment sculpter de l'énergie ? Faut-il remplir les cercueils de livres ? Une érection peut-elle être un auxiliaire de connaissance ? Don Juan a-t-il trouvé son inspiration capitale dans les arènes ? Que veulent les femmes ? Le libertinage est-il toujours de droite ? Qui a écrit Ainsi parlait Tarass Boulba ? Madame Claude a-t-elle lu Baudelaire ? Où peut-on visiter le cimetière des plaisirs ? Comment peut-on aimer Diogène et de Gaulle ? Pourquoi les pessimistes sont-ils des poseurs ? A quoi ressemble l'odor di femmina ? Sur tous ces sujets, Michel Onfray apporte ses réponses qui sont autant de chapitres de ce livre qui peut, et doit, être lu comme un journal hédoniste.
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February 1998
February 1998
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Museum visits
Museum visits
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This ensemble of comic miniatures compiles reflections on chairs, stairs, stones, goldfish, objects found, strangers observed, scenarios imagined, reasonable premises taken to absurd conclusions, and vice versa. The author erects a mental museum for his favorite artworks, only to find it swarming with tourists. He attends a harpsichord recital and lets his passions flare.(...)
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This ensemble of comic miniatures compiles reflections on chairs, stairs, stones, goldfish, objects found, strangers observed, scenarios imagined, reasonable premises taken to absurd conclusions, and vice versa. The author erects a mental museum for his favorite artworks, only to find it swarming with tourists. He attends a harpsichord recital and lets his passions flare.(...)
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February 2024
February 2024
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Museum visits
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This ensemble of comic miniatures compiles reflections on chairs, stairs, stones, goldfish, objects found, strangers observed, scenarios imagined, reasonable premises taken to absurd conclusions, and vice versa. The author erects a mental museum for his favorite artworks, only to find it swarming with tourists. He attends a harpsichord recital and lets his passions flare. He happens upon a piece of paper and imagines its sordid back story. He wonders if Hegel’s cap, on display in Stuttgart, is really worth the trip. Throughout, Chevillard’s powers of observation chime with his verbal acrobatics. His gaze—initially superficial, then deeply attentive, then practically sociopathic—manages time and again to defamiliarize the familiar with a coherent and charismatic charm. Daniel Levin Becker’s translation deftly renders the marvels of the original, and a foreword by Daniel Medin offers rich contextual commentary, making a vital wing of French literature and humor newly accessible in English.
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This ensemble of comic miniatures compiles reflections on chairs, stairs, stones, goldfish, objects found, strangers observed, scenarios imagined, reasonable premises taken to absurd conclusions, and vice versa. The author erects a mental museum for his favorite artworks, only to find it swarming with tourists. He attends a harpsichord recital and lets his passions flare. He happens upon a piece of paper and imagines its sordid back story. He wonders if Hegel’s cap, on display in Stuttgart, is really worth the trip. Throughout, Chevillard’s powers of observation chime with his verbal acrobatics. His gaze—initially superficial, then deeply attentive, then practically sociopathic—manages time and again to defamiliarize the familiar with a coherent and charismatic charm. Daniel Levin Becker’s translation deftly renders the marvels of the original, and a foreword by Daniel Medin offers rich contextual commentary, making a vital wing of French literature and humor newly accessible in English.
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February 2024
February 2024
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With Amazon’s growing power in both bookselling and publishing, considering where and how we get our books is more important now than ever. The simple act of putting a book in a reader’s hands—what booksellers call handselling—becomes a catalyst for an exploration of the moral, financial, and political pressures all indie bookstores face. From the relationship between(...)
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With Amazon’s growing power in both bookselling and publishing, considering where and how we get our books is more important now than ever. The simple act of putting a book in a reader’s hands—what booksellers call handselling—becomes a catalyst for an exploration of the moral, financial, and political pressures all indie bookstores face. From the relationship between(...)
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The art of libromancy: On selling books and reading books in the twenty-first century
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With Amazon’s growing power in both bookselling and publishing, considering where and how we get our books is more important now than ever. The simple act of putting a book in a reader’s hands—what booksellers call handselling—becomes a catalyst for an exploration of the moral, financial, and political pressures all indie bookstores face. From the relationship between bookselling and white supremacy, to censorship and the spread of misinformation, to the consolidation of the publishing industry, veteran bookseller and writer Josh Cook turns a generous yet critical eye to an industry at the heart of American culture, sharing tips and techniques for becoming a better reader and, of course, recommending great books along the way.
The art of libromancy: On selling books and reading books in the twenty-first century
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With Amazon’s growing power in both bookselling and publishing, considering where and how we get our books is more important now than ever. The simple act of putting a book in a reader’s hands—what booksellers call handselling—becomes a catalyst for an exploration of the moral, financial, and political pressures all indie bookstores face. From the relationship between bookselling and white supremacy, to censorship and the spread of misinformation, to the consolidation of the publishing industry, veteran bookseller and writer Josh Cook turns a generous yet critical eye to an industry at the heart of American culture, sharing tips and techniques for becoming a better reader and, of course, recommending great books along the way.
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August 2023
August 2023
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Obsidian situations
Obsidian situations
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Tricia Middleton’s debut verse-novel brings the artist’s genius for summoning the psychic life of the object world to the page, here trading in the resonant material vocabulary that she has honed to perfection conjuring the wayward spirits of late-stage capitalism in sculptural form, for the equally resplendent wordplay of incisive observational poetry. Ostensibly set(...)
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Tricia Middleton’s debut verse-novel brings the artist’s genius for summoning the psychic life of the object world to the page, here trading in the resonant material vocabulary that she has honed to perfection conjuring the wayward spirits of late-stage capitalism in sculptural form, for the equally resplendent wordplay of incisive observational poetry. Ostensibly set(...)
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Obsidian situations
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Tricia Middleton’s debut verse-novel brings the artist’s genius for summoning the psychic life of the object world to the page, here trading in the resonant material vocabulary that she has honed to perfection conjuring the wayward spirits of late-stage capitalism in sculptural form, for the equally resplendent wordplay of incisive observational poetry. Ostensibly set in present-day Paris, ''Obsidian situations'' spans centuries, telling a story about the epigenetics of suffering, survival, and redemption in social and cultural form. Alternating between myriad personae—sometimes artist or artwork, poet or amorphous cloud—the anonymous, decidedly female, narrator that serves as our guide to the city of light channels the souls of works of art and ideas, of artists, philosophers, courtesans and, most heartrending of all, des Enfants-Trouvés through incantatory soliloquies that call to account the half-life of Enlightenment ideals propping up the soft and saggy moral economy of the L’age Anthropocentric. As a force of self-definition and a body objectified—and so subject to the same degradation as any and all things—our champion encounters ‘situations’ that are in equal parts hilarious and heartbreaking, horrifying and wretched, breathtakingly beautiful, poignant, and mad. It’s a world of museums and collectors, artists and curators, lovers and mothers, daughters and others, charged with desire and repulsion, longing and rejection, death and devastation that, ironically, can only be transformed in art and in poetry and in dreams.
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Tricia Middleton’s debut verse-novel brings the artist’s genius for summoning the psychic life of the object world to the page, here trading in the resonant material vocabulary that she has honed to perfection conjuring the wayward spirits of late-stage capitalism in sculptural form, for the equally resplendent wordplay of incisive observational poetry. Ostensibly set in present-day Paris, ''Obsidian situations'' spans centuries, telling a story about the epigenetics of suffering, survival, and redemption in social and cultural form. Alternating between myriad personae—sometimes artist or artwork, poet or amorphous cloud—the anonymous, decidedly female, narrator that serves as our guide to the city of light channels the souls of works of art and ideas, of artists, philosophers, courtesans and, most heartrending of all, des Enfants-Trouvés through incantatory soliloquies that call to account the half-life of Enlightenment ideals propping up the soft and saggy moral economy of the L’age Anthropocentric. As a force of self-definition and a body objectified—and so subject to the same degradation as any and all things—our champion encounters ‘situations’ that are in equal parts hilarious and heartbreaking, horrifying and wretched, breathtakingly beautiful, poignant, and mad. It’s a world of museums and collectors, artists and curators, lovers and mothers, daughters and others, charged with desire and repulsion, longing and rejection, death and devastation that, ironically, can only be transformed in art and in poetry and in dreams.
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January 2023
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Un lac le matin
Un lac le matin
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Par un beau matin de 1845, Henry David Thoreau prend possession de la cabane qu’il a construite à Walden Pond, en Nouvelle-Angleterre, pour y vivre à l’écart du monde. Le livre qu’il tire de cette expérience, « Walden ou La Vie dans les bois », fera de lui le précurseur du mouvement écologiste, l’ancêtre du nature writing, le prophète de la désobéissance civile. Dans «(...)
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Par un beau matin de 1845, Henry David Thoreau prend possession de la cabane qu’il a construite à Walden Pond, en Nouvelle-Angleterre, pour y vivre à l’écart du monde. Le livre qu’il tire de cette expérience, « Walden ou La Vie dans les bois », fera de lui le précurseur du mouvement écologiste, l’ancêtre du nature writing, le prophète de la désobéissance civile. Dans «(...)
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Par un beau matin de 1845, Henry David Thoreau prend possession de la cabane qu’il a construite à Walden Pond, en Nouvelle-Angleterre, pour y vivre à l’écart du monde. Le livre qu’il tire de cette expérience, « Walden ou La Vie dans les bois », fera de lui le précurseur du mouvement écologiste, l’ancêtre du nature writing, le prophète de la désobéissance civile. Dans « Un lac le matin », Louis Hamelin capte l’extraordinaire sensibilité du personnage, ses liens complexes avec Emerson, mentor à la bienveillance parfois étouffante, et son improbable amitié avec son voisin canadien-français, Alex Therrien, bûcheron et poseur de clôtures. Surtout, le romancier fait vivre pour nous un Thoreau de chair et de sang.
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Par un beau matin de 1845, Henry David Thoreau prend possession de la cabane qu’il a construite à Walden Pond, en Nouvelle-Angleterre, pour y vivre à l’écart du monde. Le livre qu’il tire de cette expérience, « Walden ou La Vie dans les bois », fera de lui le précurseur du mouvement écologiste, l’ancêtre du nature writing, le prophète de la désobéissance civile. Dans « Un lac le matin », Louis Hamelin capte l’extraordinaire sensibilité du personnage, ses liens complexes avec Emerson, mentor à la bienveillance parfois étouffante, et son improbable amitié avec son voisin canadien-français, Alex Therrien, bûcheron et poseur de clôtures. Surtout, le romancier fait vivre pour nous un Thoreau de chair et de sang.
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October 2023
October 2023
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A load of shit
A load of shit
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John Berger’s essay begins by describing the experience of burying a year’s worth of his household’s excrement. What follows is an extended reflection—at once philosophically detached and engaged with the inescapable stuff of life—on shit as an allegory of what it means to be human.
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John Berger’s essay begins by describing the experience of burying a year’s worth of his household’s excrement. What follows is an extended reflection—at once philosophically detached and engaged with the inescapable stuff of life—on shit as an allegory of what it means to be human.
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John Berger’s essay begins by describing the experience of burying a year’s worth of his household’s excrement. What follows is an extended reflection—at once philosophically detached and engaged with the inescapable stuff of life—on shit as an allegory of what it means to be human.
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John Berger’s essay begins by describing the experience of burying a year’s worth of his household’s excrement. What follows is an extended reflection—at once philosophically detached and engaged with the inescapable stuff of life—on shit as an allegory of what it means to be human.
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The lottery in Babylon
The lottery in Babylon
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"The drunkard who comes out with an absurd order, the dreamer who suddenly wakes and with his bare hands strangles the woman sleeping beside him - are they perhaps not carrying out one of the Company's secret decisions? These silent workings, so like those of God, give rise to all manner of speculation." The affairs of Babylon are dictated by a lottery. Discreetly(...)
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"The drunkard who comes out with an absurd order, the dreamer who suddenly wakes and with his bare hands strangles the woman sleeping beside him - are they perhaps not carrying out one of the Company's secret decisions? These silent workings, so like those of God, give rise to all manner of speculation." The affairs of Babylon are dictated by a lottery. Discreetly(...)
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The lottery in Babylon
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"The drunkard who comes out with an absurd order, the dreamer who suddenly wakes and with his bare hands strangles the woman sleeping beside him - are they perhaps not carrying out one of the Company's secret decisions? These silent workings, so like those of God, give rise to all manner of speculation." The affairs of Babylon are dictated by a lottery. Discreetly administered by a mysterious and seemingly omnipotent Company, the lottery can elevate citizens to positions of wealth and power or condemn them to the most shameful punishments. Taking this fantastical conceit as its starting point, Jorge Luis Borges's short story is a characteristically brilliant achievement - a haunting mediation on the nature of chance, paranoia and divinity.
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"The drunkard who comes out with an absurd order, the dreamer who suddenly wakes and with his bare hands strangles the woman sleeping beside him - are they perhaps not carrying out one of the Company's secret decisions? These silent workings, so like those of God, give rise to all manner of speculation." The affairs of Babylon are dictated by a lottery. Discreetly administered by a mysterious and seemingly omnipotent Company, the lottery can elevate citizens to positions of wealth and power or condemn them to the most shameful punishments. Taking this fantastical conceit as its starting point, Jorge Luis Borges's short story is a characteristically brilliant achievement - a haunting mediation on the nature of chance, paranoia and divinity.
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September 2024
September 2024
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Our distance became water
Our distance became water
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"We knew very little with any certainty. One thing, though, was confirmed by everyone: that we were not the only ones flooded. For all we knew, every city across the globe had suffered a comparable fate." As an unnamed city finds itself partially submerged below water, a small community of friends and lovers is forced to adapt to a world that has been radically(...)
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"We knew very little with any certainty. One thing, though, was confirmed by everyone: that we were not the only ones flooded. For all we knew, every city across the globe had suffered a comparable fate." As an unnamed city finds itself partially submerged below water, a small community of friends and lovers is forced to adapt to a world that has been radically(...)
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Our distance became water
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"We knew very little with any certainty. One thing, though, was confirmed by everyone: that we were not the only ones flooded. For all we knew, every city across the globe had suffered a comparable fate." As an unnamed city finds itself partially submerged below water, a small community of friends and lovers is forced to adapt to a world that has been radically transformed. An arresting vision of the wages of ecological disaster, "Our distance became water" is at once lyrical, moving, and psychologically acute. Endlessly inventive in both its style and its substance, this is a singularly powerful literary response to environmental change.
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"We knew very little with any certainty. One thing, though, was confirmed by everyone: that we were not the only ones flooded. For all we knew, every city across the globe had suffered a comparable fate." As an unnamed city finds itself partially submerged below water, a small community of friends and lovers is forced to adapt to a world that has been radically transformed. An arresting vision of the wages of ecological disaster, "Our distance became water" is at once lyrical, moving, and psychologically acute. Endlessly inventive in both its style and its substance, this is a singularly powerful literary response to environmental change.
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May 2024
May 2024
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