A horse at night : on writing / Amina Cain.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cain, Amina, author.

Series:

Dorothy, a publishing project (Series)

Dorothy, a Publishing Project

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cain, Amina.

Novelists, American--21st century--Biography.

Novelists, American.

Cain, Amina--Books and reading.

Fiction--Authorship--Psychological aspects.

Fiction.

Art appreciation.

Books and reading.

Genre:

essays.

Autobiographies.

Biographies.

Essays.

Physical Description:

133 pages ; 18 cm.

Edition:

First edition.

Other Title:

On writing

Place of Publication:

St. Louis, MO : Dorothy, a publishing project, [2022]

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

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Other Format:

Online version: Cain, Amina. Horse at night.

ISBN:

9781948980135

1948980134

OCLC:

1313118517