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Streaming now : postcards from the thing that is happening / Laurie Stone.
Van Pelt Library PS3569.T64137 Z46 2022
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Stone, Laurie (Novelist), author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Authors, American--20th century--Biography.
- Authors, American.
- COVID-19 Pandemic, 2020-2023.
- Popular culture--United States--21st century.
- Popular culture.
- Literature--History and criticism.
- Literature.
- Stone, Laurie (Novelist).
- Stone, Laurie.
- Stone, Laurie (Novelist)--Diaries.
- Genre:
- Autobiographies.
- Biographies.
- Essays.
- Diaries.
- Physical Description:
- x, 201 pages ; 18 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York City : Dottir Press, 2022.
- Summary:
- "Streaming Now: Postcards from the Thing That Is Happening is a collection of hybrid feminist narratives that perfectly captures the many paradoxes of the COVID-19 pandemic, contrasting the seemingly never-ended public catastrophes we experienced as a collective with the isolated, often-mundane lives we carried out in private. Shifting effortless between social commentary and memoir, glimpses of history and threads of fiction, Stone, a lifelong feminist and longtime contributor to the Village Voice and NPR's Fresh Air, unapologetically observes against the backdrop of a Zoom call the evolution of feminism over the years, the gendered sexual politics underlying Jeffrey Toobin's public disgrace, rage and Rebecca Solnit-like hope on the heels of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg's death, and the way we continue to pot and maintain our plants amidst the broken narrative of our world's future. As Stone says, It's good this narrative has been broken. In the narrative that has been broken, people ignored the way so many things they wanted required the suffering of others. In a time when most of us felt more alone than ever before, Laurie Stone's Streaming Now: Postcards from the Thing That Is Happening is a retroactive but no less timely reminder that we were less alone in our thoughts than we thought"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: pt. 1 Pandemica, Hudson, New York
- March 28, 2020
- April 2020
- June 2020, Part 1
- June 2020, Part 2
- July 22, 2020
- September 2020
- September 29, 2020
- October 23, 2020
- October 30, 2020
- November 2020
- December 4, 2020
- February 2021
- March 2021
- July 2021
- August 2021
- pt. 2 Elsewhere, Elsewhen
- Seven Locations
- Kathy Acker and Chris Kraus, or How to Write In a Way That Will Be Reviled until Everyone Will Read You as Necessary
- Friend
- Catering
- Denouement: New York City Postcard to Ann Snitow (1943-2019)
- Give Peas a Chance
- Apartment
- New Place
- Today.
- Notes:
- Essays, part memoir and part social commentary.
- "Parts of this book have previously appeared in some fashion in the Women's Review of Books, Eevergreen Review, n+1, and Taint, Taint, Taint"--Title page verso.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten Family Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9781948340526
- 1948340526
- OCLC:
- 1319767068
- Publisher Number:
- 99991279172
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