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Tonight I'm Someone Else

Tonight I'm Someone Else - Paperback

by Chelsea Hodson
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Availability:In StockContributor:Chelsea HodsonPublish date:2018-06-05Pages:208
Languages:EnglishPublisher:Holt PaperbacksISBN-13:9781250170194ISBN-10:1250170192UPC:9781250170194Book Category:Biography & Autobiography, Literary CollectionsBook Subcategory:Literary Figures, Women, EssaysSize:8.20 x 5.50 x 0.60 inchesWeight:0.4Product ID:SCH8YJJY1Q

"I had a real romance with this book." --Miranda July

A highly anticipated collection, from the writer Maggie Nelson has called, "bracingly good...refreshing and welcome," that explores the myriad ways in which desire and commodification intersect.

From graffiti gangs and Grand Theft Auto to sugar daddies, Schopenhauer, and a deadly game of Russian roulette, in these essays, Chelsea Hodson probes her own desires to examine where the physical and the proprietary collide. She asks what our privacy, our intimacy, and our own bodies are worth in the increasingly digital world of liking, linking, and sharing.

Starting with Hodson's own work experience, which ranges from the mundane to the bizarre--including modeling and working on a NASA Mars mission-- Hodson expands outward, looking at the ways in which the human will submits, whether in the marketplace or in a relationship. Both tender and jarring, this collection is relevant to anyone who's ever searched for what the self is worth.

Hodson's accumulation within each piece is purposeful, and her prose vivid, clear, and sometimes even shocking, as she explores the wonderful and strange forms of desire. Tonight I'm Someone Else is a fresh, poetic debut from an exciting emerging voice, in which Hodson asks, "How much can a body endure?" And the resounding answer: "Almost everything."
Languages:EnglishPublisher:Holt PaperbacksISBN-13:9781250170194ISBN-10:1250170192UPC:9781250170194Book Category:Biography & Autobiography, Literary CollectionsBook Subcategory:Literary Figures, Women, EssaysSize:8.20 x 5.50 x 0.60 inchesWeight:0.4Product ID:SCH8YJJY1Q
Chelsea Hodson earned her MFA at Bennington College and was a PEN Center USA Emerging Voices Fellow. Her work has been published in The New York Times Magazine, Frieze Magazine, Black Warrior Review, The Lifted Brow, and more. She teaches at the Mors Tua Vita Mea workshop in Sezze Romano, Italy, and lives in Brooklyn, New York
Publisher: Holt Paperbacks

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