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I have collected here 10 book-length essays that appeal to me in their style, and that informed my writing of Having and Being Had, which I think of as a book-length essay. I have left out works that read like essays but that are entirely fictional, such as Claire-Louise Bennett’s wonderful Pond, and Anne Carson’s The Beauty of the Husband. I have also left out works that were published as poetry, such as A Pillow Book, Suzanne Buffam’s lovely homage to the zuihitsu of the 10th-century writer Sei Shōnagon. Even so, many of these books are only arguably essays. I find all of them difficult to describe and hard to categorise. This is a genre made up of works that frustrate the very concept of genre. ....
‘What does it say about capitalism that we have money and want to spend it but we can’t find anything worth buying?’ What does it say about capitalism, John asks, that we have money and want to spend it but we can’t find anything worth buying? We’re on our way home from furniture store, again. We almost bought something called a credenza, but then John opened the drawers and discovered that it wasn’t made to last. I think there are limits, I say, to what mass production can produce. We just bought a house but we don’t have furniture yet. We’ve been eating on our back stoop for three months. Last week a Mexican woman with four children rang our doorbell and asked if our front room was for rent. I’m sorry, I said awkwardly, we live here. She was confused. But, she said, it’s empty. ....
Books to look out for in 2021 Irish fiction New work that has been a long time coming generates a particular shiver of anticipation. Small Things Like These (Faber, October) will be Claire Keegan’s first new work since her novella Foster, still a bestseller 10 years on. Her publisher says: “An exquisite wintery parable, Claire Keegan’s long-awaited return tells the story of a simple act of courage and tenderness, in the face of conformity, fear and judgment.” Small Things Like These (Faber, October) will be Claire Keegan’s first new work since her novella Foster, still a bestseller 10 years on. Photograph: Alan Betson ....
Having and Being Had by Eula Biss review â saturated in capitalism We are locked into a game we canât escape . an interrogation of work, possessions and daily life by the acclaimed US writer Eula Biss . a diary eventually became this book, which takes the form of a collection of vignettes. Photograph: Gary Doak/eyevine Eula Biss . a diary eventually became this book, which takes the form of a collection of vignettes. Photograph: Gary Doak/eyevine Wed 30 Dec 2020 04.00 EST As a writer Eula Biss has two great gifts. The first is her ability to reveal to the reader what has, all along, been hidden in plain sight. She did this in ....
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