{"product_id":"a-horse-at-night-on-writing","title":"A Horse at Night : On Writing","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA virtuosic meditation on literature and life in the tradition of Virginia Woolf’s \u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eA Room of One’s Own\u003c\/i\u003e and William H. Gass’s \u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eOn Being Blue.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e“Without planning it, I wrote a diary of sorts. Lightly. A diary of fiction. Or is that not what this is?”\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eA 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, A Horse at Night: On Writing moves associatively through a personal canon of authors \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e– including Marguerite Duras, Elena Ferrante, Renee Gladman, and Virginia Woolf \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e– and topics as timely and various as female friendships, zazen meditation, neighborhood coyotes, landscape painting, book titles, and the politics of excess. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eAmina Cain’s first nonfiction book is an individual reckoning with the contemporary moment and a quietly brilliant contribution to the lineage of Woolf’s \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eA Room of One’s Own\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e or William H. Gass’s \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eOn Being Blue,\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e books that are virtuosic arguments for \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e– and beautiful demonstrations of \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e– the essential unity of writing and life.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Amina Cain","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43521571750145,"sku":"9781914198373","price":9.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0573\/8600\/8738\/files\/websitecovertemplate_25.png?v=1687959090","url":"https:\/\/rarebirdsbooks.live\/products\/a-horse-at-night-on-writing","provider":"Rare Birds Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}