Bibliograph

A horse at night, on writing, Amina Cain

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A horse at night, on writing, Amina Cain

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references

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autobiography

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

A horse at night

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

1313118517

Responsibility statement

Amina Cain

Series statement

Dorothy, a Publishing Project

Sub title

on writing

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

Table Of Contents

Machine generated contents note:, Without planning it, I wrote a diary of sorts, I drove to the little shop when it was getting dark, For years now, whenever I read a short story, I recendy 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

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On writing

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