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  | | Crudo(Reprint) A Novel by Olivia Laing Paperback, 160 Pages, Published 2019 by W. W. Norton & Company ISBN-13: 978-0-393-35741-7, ISBN: 0-393-35741-4 "“Love may not be original, but this funny, fervent novel is.”― The New YorkerIt’s the summer of 2017 and Kathy―who bears a distinct resemblance to punk novelist Kathy Acker― is getting married. Meanwhile, fascism is on the rise, truth is dead, the planet is heating up, and Trump is tweeting the world ever closer to nuclear war. In Crudo, her first work of fiction, Olivia Laing radically rewires the novel with a fierce, compassionate acc ..." |
 | | The Trip to Echo Spring(Reprint) On Writers and Drinking by Olivia Laing Paperback, 384 Pages, Published 2014 by Picador ISBN-13: 978-1-250-06373-1, ISBN: 1-250-06373-6 "A "New York Times "Notable Book of 2014A "Time" "Magazine "Notable Book of 2014 Olivia Laing's widely acclaimed account of how writers in the grip of alcoholism created some of the greatest works of American literature In "The Trip to Echo Spring," Olivia Laing takes a journey across America, examining the links between creativity and alcohol in the work and lives of six extraordinary men: F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, Tennesse ..." |
 | | To the River A Journey Beneath the Surface (Canons) by Olivia Laing Paperback, 304 Pages, Published 2017 by Canongate Canons ISBN-13: 978-1-78689-158-7, ISBN: 1-78689-158-1 "Over sixty years after Virginia Woolf drowned in the River Ouse, Olivia Laing sets out to walk its banks, from the source all the way to the sea. As she walks, she reflects upon the power of rivers, refracting mythology, science, social history and literature through their waters to shed light on their eternal violence and mystery. Lyrical and stirring, To the River is a meditation on landscape and its capacity to restore hope - and h ..." |
 | | The Lonely City(Reprint) Adventures in the Art of Being Alone by Olivia Laing Paperback, 336 Pages, Published 2017 by Picador ISBN-13: 978-1-250-11803-5, ISBN: 1-250-11803-4 "A dazzling work of memoir, biography and cultural criticism on the subject of loneliness, told through the lives of six iconic artists, by the acclaimed author of "The Trip to Echo Spring." What does it mean to be lonely? How do we live, if we're not intimately engaged with another human being? How do we connect with other people? Does technology draw us closer together or trap us behind screens?When Olivia Laing moved to New York City ..." |
 | | The Trip to Echo Spring(1st Edition) On Writers and Drinking by Olivia Laing, Ernest About, Tennessee Williams, John Berryman Hardcover, 352 Pages, Published 2013 by Picador ISBN-13: 978-1-250-03956-9, ISBN: 1-250-03956-8 "WHY IS IT THAT SOME OF THE GREATEST WORKS OF LITERATURE HAVE BEEN PRODUCED BY WRITERS IN THE GRIP OF ALCOHOLISM, AN ADDICTION THAT COST THEM PERSONAL HAPPINESS AND CAUSED HARM TO THOSE WHO LOVED THEM?In "The Trip to Echo Spring," Olivia Laing examines the link between creativity and alcohol through the work and lives of six extraordinary men: F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, Tennessee Williams, John Berryman, John Cheever, and Ray ..." |
 | | To the River(Reprint) A Journey Beneath the Surface (Canons) by Olivia Laing, Nick Cave Paperback, 288 Pages, Published 2012 by Canongate Uk ISBN-13: 978-1-84767-793-8, ISBN: 1-84767-793-2 "A beautiful, lyrical book tells the tale of the river in which Virginia Woolf drowned, and heralds the arrival of a major new voice in nature writingOne midsummer week more than 60 years after Virginia Woolf drowned in the Ouse in 1941, Olivia Laing walked that same Sussex river from source to sea. The result is a passionate investigation into how history resides in a landscape—and how ghosts never quite leave the places they love. Alon ..." |
 | | Refugee Tales Volume II (2) by Josh Cohen, Jackie Kay, Ian Duhig, Rachel Holmes, Olivia Laing, Helen Macdonald, Neel Mukherjee, Kamila Shamsie, Marina Warner, David Herd, Anna Pincus, Caroline Bergvall, Alex Preston, Smith El Al, Smith Et Al Paperback, 144 Pages, Published 2017 by Comma Press ISBN-13: 978-1-910974-30-8, ISBN: 1-910974-30-7 "Upon changing his religion, a young man is denounced as an apostate and flees his country hiding in the back of a freezer lorry…After years of travelling and losing almost everything – his country, his children, his wife, his farm – an Afghan man finds unexpected warmth and comfort in a stranger’s home...A student protester is forced to leave his homeland after a government crackdown, and spends the next 25 years in limbo, trapped in th ..." |
 | | Chantal Joffe (Paperback) by Olivia Laing Paperback, 80 Pages, Published 2021 by Victoria Miro Gallery, London ISBN-13: 978-1-9997579-8-4, ISBN: 1-9997579-8-X "Published on the occasion of a new exhibition at Victoria Miro, this book ? accompanied with a new text by Olivia Laing ? includes a number of new paintings of the artist?s mother, Daryll, part of an ongoing series that Joffe began some ..." |
 | | Funny Weather(1st Edition) Art in an Emergency by Olivia Laing Hardcover, 368 Pages, Published 2020 by W. W. Norton & Company ISBN-13: 978-1-324-00570-4, ISBN: 1-324-00570-X "“One of the finest writers of the new non-fiction” (Harper’s Bazaar) explores the role of art in the tumultuous twenty-first century.In the age of Trump and Brexit, every crisis is instantly overridden by the next. The turbulent political weather of the twenty- first century generates anxiety and makes it difficult to know how to react. Olivia Laing makes a brilliant, inspiring case for why art matters more than ever, as a force of both ..." |
 | | Crudo(1st Edition) A Novel by Olivia Laing Hardcover, 160 Pages, Published 2018 by W. W. Norton & Company ISBN-13: 978-0-393-65272-7, ISBN: 0-393-65272-6 "A New York Times Notable, Washington Post, NPR, Guardian, and Bustle Best Book of 2018 A brilliant, funny, and emphatically raw novel of love on the brink of the apocalypse, from the acclaimed author of The Lonely City."She had no idea what to do with love, she experienced it as invasion, as the prelude to loss and pain, she really didn’t have a clue."Kathy is a writer. Kathy is getting married. It’s the summer of 2017 and the whole wor ..." |
 | | The Trip to Echo Spring On Writers and Drinking (Canons) by Olivia Laing Paperback, 352 Pages, Published 2017 by Canongate Canons ISBN-13: 978-1-78689-160-0, ISBN: 1-78689-160-3 "Why were so many authors of the greatest works of literature consumed by alcoholism? In The Trip to Echo Spring, Olivia Laing takes a journey across America, examining the links between creativity and drink in the overlapping work and lives of six extraordinary men: F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, Tennessee Williams, John Berryman, John Cheever and Raymond Carver. From Hemingway's Key West to Williams's New Orleans, Laing pieces ..." |
 | | THE Trip to Echo Spring Why Writers Drink by Olivia Laing, Canongate Books Ltd Hardcover, 352 Pages, Published 2013 by Canongate Books ISBN-13: 978-1-84767-794-5, ISBN: 1-84767-794-0 " Why is it that some of the greatest works of literature have been produced by writers in the grip of alcoholism, an addiction that cost them personal happiness and caused harm to those who loved them? In this title, the author examines the link between creativity and alcohol through the work and lives of six extraordinary men. " |
 | | Everybody Nominiert: Rathbones Folio Prize 2022 by Olivia Laing Hardcover, 368 Pages, Published 2021 by Pan Macmillan, United Kingdom ISBN-13: 978-1-5098-5711-1, ISBN: 1-5098-5711-7 "Olivia Laing conducts an ambitious investigation into the body and its discontents, using the life of the renegade psychoanalyst Wilhelm Reich to chart a daring course through the long struggle for bodily freedom, from gay rights and sexual ..." |
 | | The Lonely City Adventures in the Art of Being Alone by Olivia Laing Hardcover, 336 Pages, Published 1746 by Canongate Books ISBN-13: 978-1-78211-123-8, ISBN: 1-78211-123-9 "An expertly crafted work of reportage, memoir, and biography on the subject of loneliness told through the lives of six iconic artists, by the acclaimed author of The Trip to Echo Spring. You can be lonely anywhere, but there is a particular flavor to the loneliness that comes from living in a city, surrounded by thousands of strangers. The Lonely City is a roving cultural history of urban loneliness, centered on the ultimate city: Manh ..." |
 | | Crudo Laing, Olivia by Olivia Laing Paperback, 176 Pages, Published 2019 by Pan Macmillan ISBN-13: 978-1-5098-9284-6, ISBN: 1-5098-9284-2 |
 | | To the River A Journey Beneath the Surface by Olivia Laing Hardcover, 304 Pages, Published 2011 by Canongate Books ISBN-13: 978-1-84767-792-1, ISBN: 1-84767-792-4 "'To the River' is the story of the Ouse, the Sussex river which Virginia Woolf drowned in 1941. One midsummer week, over 60 years later, Olivia Laing walked Woolf's river from source to sea. The result is a passionate investigation into how history resides in a landscape and how ghosts never quite leave the places they love. To the River can be read in part as a biography of Woolf, refracted back through the river she loved. But other w ..." |
 | | Agnes Martin The Distillation of Color (Hardcover) by Agnes Martin, Durga Chew-Bose, Olivia Laing, Bruce Hainley, Andria Hickey Hardcover, 168 Pages, Published 2022 by Pace Gallery ISBN-13: 978-1-948701-39-6, ISBN: 1-948701-39-1 "Agnes Martin: The Distillation of Color traces this evolution within the context of Martin’s broadening vision during the latter half of her career—one that crystalized her pursuit of perfection and quest to deepen her understanding of ..." |
 | | Andy Warhol by Gregor Muir, Yilmaz Dziewior, Kenneth Brummel, Stephan Diederich, Olivia Laing Hardcover, 224 Pages, Published 2020 by Rizzoli Electa ISBN-13: 978-0-8478-6925-1, ISBN: 0-8478-6925-3 "A new reading of Warhol presents his life and work in the context of contemporary concerns, emphasizing his continued relevance in the digital age.As an underground art star, Andy Warhol (1928-1987) was the antidote to the prevalent abstract expressionist style of 1950s America. He introduced popular everyday subjects into his practice and openly acknowledged the wide-ranging influences on his work. Throughout his career, his forays int ..." |
 | | Funny Weather Art in an Emergency (Hardback) by Olivia Laing Hardcover, 368 Pages, Published 2020 by Picador ISBN-13: 978-1-5290-2764-8, ISBN: 1-5290-2764-0 "'A brave writer whose books open up fundamental questions about life and art' Telegraph In this remarkable, inspiring collection of essays, acclaimed writer and critic Olivia Laing makes a brilliant case for why art matters, especially in ..." |
 | | Funny Weather Art in an Emergency by Olivia Laing 368 Pages, Published 2020 by W. W. Norton & Company ISBN-13: 978-1-324-00573-5, ISBN: 1-324-00573-4 "Chantal. Joffe. March 2018 EVERY TIME I GO to Chantal's studio we eat cupcakes from Hummingbird Bakery, get hopped up on sugar and talk very fast. We met because she read The Lonely City and asked if I'd come and sit for her. I feel like ..." |
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