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Too much and not the mood / Durga Chew-Bose.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2017Copyright date: ©2017Edition: First editionDescription: 221 pages ; 19 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780374535957
  • 0374535957
Uniform titles:
  • Essays. Selections
Subject(s): Genre/Form:
Contents:
Heart museum -- Part of a greater pattern -- Miserable -- Gone! -- The girl -- Idea of marriage -- Moby-Dick -- D as in -- Since living alone -- Tan lines -- Summer pictures -- Some things I cannot unhear -- Upspeak -- At my least and most aware.
Summary: "An entirely original portrait of a young writer shutting out the din in order to find her own voice"-- Provided by publisher.Summary: "On April 11, 1931, Virginia Woolf ended her entry in A Writer's Diary with the words "too much and not the mood." She was describing how tired she was of correcting her own writing, of the "cramming in and the cutting out" to please other readers, wondering if she had anything at all that was truly worth saying. The character of that sentiment, the attitude of it, inspired Durga Chew-Bose to write and collect her own work. The result is a lyrical and piercingly insightful collection of essays and her own brand of essay-meets-prose poetry about identity and culture. Inspired by Maggie Nelson's Bluets, Lydia Davis's short prose, and Vivian Gornick's exploration of interior life, Chew-Bose captures the inner restlessness that keeps her always on the brink of creative expression. Too Much and Not the Mood is a beautiful and surprising exploration of what it means to be a first-generation, creative young woman working today."--Back cover.
Holdings
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Adult Book Adult Book Main Library NonFiction 814.6 C529 Available 33111008750503
Total holds: 0

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

Named a best book of 2017 by NPR, The Guardian , Slate , NYLON and The Globe and Mail (Canada)

From Durga Chew-Bose, "one of our most gifted, insightful essayists and critics" ( Nylon ), comes "a warmly considered meld of criticism and memoir" ( New Yorker ), a lyrical and piercingly insightful debut collection of essays about identity and culture.

Too Much and Not the Mood is a beautiful and surprising exploration of what it means to be a first-generation, creative young woman working today. On April 11, 1931, Virginia Woolf ended her entry in A Writer's Diary with the words "too much and not the mood" to describe her frustration with placating her readers, what she described as the "cramming in and the cutting out." She wondered if she had anything at all that was truly worth saying.

The attitude of that sentiment inspired Durga Chew-Bose to gather own writing in this lyrical collection of poetic essays that examine personhood and artistic growth. Drawing inspiration from a diverse group of incisive and inquiring female authors, Chew-Bose captures the inner restlessness that keeps her always on the brink of creative expression.

Heart museum -- Part of a greater pattern -- Miserable -- Gone! -- The girl -- Idea of marriage -- Moby-Dick -- D as in -- Since living alone -- Tan lines -- Summer pictures -- Some things I cannot unhear -- Upspeak -- At my least and most aware.

"An entirely original portrait of a young writer shutting out the din in order to find her own voice"-- Provided by publisher.

"On April 11, 1931, Virginia Woolf ended her entry in A Writer's Diary with the words "too much and not the mood." She was describing how tired she was of correcting her own writing, of the "cramming in and the cutting out" to please other readers, wondering if she had anything at all that was truly worth saying. The character of that sentiment, the attitude of it, inspired Durga Chew-Bose to write and collect her own work. The result is a lyrical and piercingly insightful collection of essays and her own brand of essay-meets-prose poetry about identity and culture. Inspired by Maggie Nelson's Bluets, Lydia Davis's short prose, and Vivian Gornick's exploration of interior life, Chew-Bose captures the inner restlessness that keeps her always on the brink of creative expression. Too Much and Not the Mood is a beautiful and surprising exploration of what it means to be a first-generation, creative young woman working today."--Back cover.

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