Machine generated contents note: While thinking and writing about novels. I drove to the little shop when it was getting dark -- For years now, whenever I read a short story -- I recently read, and loved, Annie Ernaux's -- In The Lost Daughter, when Leda goes alone -- Sometimes a tide comes easily -- When I was a teenager in Ohio, I dreamed -- Coming back from near sleep, a painting -- When I began looking at paintings of nighttime -- This autumn I've been reading the diaries -- In the last year I've become fixated on -- Not long ago, when I re-read Gladman's Ana Patova -- As I write this, my cat Trout whines loudly -- In The Frozen Thames, Helen Humphreys writes -- Finished NDiaye's All My Friends -- In The Ravishing of Lol Stein, a friend -- Write into the winter, and the summer -- On my laptop are Jpgs of paintings of women reading -- I don't believe in perfection -- Coming back recendy to zazen meditation -- I am reading an early novel by Rachel Cusk -- While thinking and writing about novels.
Summary:
"In Amina Cain's first nonfiction book, a series of essayistic inquiries come together to form a sustained meditation on writers and their works, on the spaces of reading and writing fiction, and how these spaces take shape inside a life. Driven by primary questions of authenticity and freedom in the shadow of ecological and social collapse, Cain moves associatively through a personal canon of authors-including Marguerite Duras, Elena Ferrante, Renee Gladman, and Virginia Woolf-and topics as timely and various as female friendships, zazen meditation, neighborhood coyotes, landscape painting, book titles, and the politics of excess. A Horse at Night: On Writing is an intimate reckoning with the contemporary moment, and a quietly brilliant contribution to the lineage of Woolf's A Room of One's Own or William H. Gass's On Being Blue, books that are virtuosic arguments for-and beautiful demonstrations of-the essential unity of writing and life"-- Provided by publisher
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