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Dancing on My Own
Essays on Art, Collectivity, and Joy
- by
- Simon Wu
2024
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A Literary Hub Most Noteworthy Nonfiction Book of 2024 • A Brooklyn Rail Best Art Book of 2024 • A The Millions and Hyperallergic Most Anticipated Book of 2024 • A Publishers Weekly Summer Reads Pick"A book that emerges out of the moment, electric with timely energies." –Washington Post“Keen and refreshing.” –Cathy Park Hong"Genius." –Cla...
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- Oberon Modern Plays
2010
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The Oikos Project and the two plays Oikos and Protozoa are an attempt to take responsibility for creating a different future in relation to the coming threat of climate change. Can we createa future based less on material gain and more on being in sympathy with our only planet?OIKOS Salil, a highly-successful businessman, has it all worked out: career, family, river-view des-res in Chiswick and a beautiful mistress. So why is he increasingly haunted by ghosts from t...
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Dancing on My Own
Essays on Art, Collectivity, and Joy
- by
- Simon Wu
- Narrated by
- Shawn K. Jain
Unabridged
6 hours 46 min
2024
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A Literary Hub Most Noteworthy Nonfiction Book of 2024 • A Brooklyn Rail Best Art Book of 2024 • A The Millions and Hyperallergic Most Anticipated Book of 2024 • A Publishers Weekly Summer Reads Pick""A book that emerges out of the moment, electric with timely energies."" –Washington Post“Keen and refreshing.” –Cathy Park Hong""Genius."" ...
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On The Edge and other stories
11 BBC Radio Thrillers
Unabridged
9 hours 43 min
2023
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11 gripping thrillers from some of BBC Radio's best contemporary writers, including BAFTA- winner Neil McKayInventive, intriguing and atmospheric, this eclectic selection of crime, mystery and psychological dramas immerses us in a series of diverse worlds where nothing is what it appears to be, and nobody is quite what they seem.Wide in scope and disparate in style, the stories range from a police procedural and a dark, dystopian eco-thriller to a shocking ...
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The Unreality of Memory
And Other Essays
- Narrated by
- Chelsea Stephens
Unabridged
7 hours 9 min
2020
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We stare at our phones. We keep multiple tabs open. Our chats and conversations are full of the phrase "Did you see?" The feeling that we're living in the worst of times seems to be intensifying, alongside a desire to know precisely how bad things have gotten—and each new catastrophe distracts us from the last.The Unreality of Memory collects provocative, searching essays on disaster culture, climate anxiety, and our mounting collective sense of doom. In this new collectio...
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Minor Feelings
An Asian American Reckoning
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- One World Essentials
2020
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**NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST • NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER • ONE OF TIME’S 100 MOST INFLUENTIAL PEOPLE • A ruthlessly honest, emotionally charged, and utterly original exploration of Asian American consciousness“Brilliant . . . To read this book is to become more human.”—Claudia Rankine, author of Citizen**In development as a television series starring and adapted by Greta Lee • One of Time’s...
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Recollections of My Nonexistence
A Memoir
2020
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**Shortlisted for the James Tait Black Prize for BiographyLonglisted for The Orwell Prize for Political WritingAn electric portrait of the artist as a young woman that asks how a writer finds her voice in a society that prefers women to be silent, from the author of Orwell's Roses**In Recollections of My Nonexistence, Rebecca Solnit describes her formation as a writer and as a feminist in 1980s San Francisco, in an atmosphere of gender violence on t...
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2023
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**Finalist for the 2024 Forest of Reading Evergreen Book Award and the City of Vancouver Book Award.Named a Best Book of 2023 by the Globe and Mail and Apple Books CanadaA TODAY Show Recommended ReadThis beautifully intimate memoir-in-pieces uses one woman's life-long love affair with pop culture as a revelatory lens to explore family, identity, belonging, grief, and the power of female rage.**For most of Jen Sookfong Lee's life, pop culture was an es...
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Status and Culture
How Our Desire for Social Rank Creates Taste, Identity, Art, Fashion, and Constant Change
2022
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**"Subtly altered how I see the world." —Michelle Goldberg, New York Times“[Status and Culture] consistently posits theories I'd never previously considered that instantly feel obvious.” —Chuck Klosterman, author of The Nineties“Why are you the way that you are? Status and Culture explains nearly everything about the things you choose to be—and how the society we live in takes shape in the process.” —B.J. Novak, writer and actorSo...
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Get the Picture
A Mind-Bending Journey among the Inspired Artists and Obsessive Art Fiends Who Taught Me How to See
2024
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**AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERNAMED A BEST BOOK OF 2024 BY NPR, TIME, AND THE ECONOMIST“Get the Picture is one of the funniest books I’ve read . . . Brilliant.” —The Washington Post“A gripping and often hilarious investigation into the art world. . . . Bosker goes full Tom Wolfe.” —TIME“Funny, whip-smart, and gorgeously written, Get the Picture will forever transform the way you see. . . ....
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Brown Girls
A Novel
2022
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**NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS’ CHOICE • A “boisterous and infectious debut novel” (The Guardian) about a group of friends and their immigrant families from Queens, New York—a tenderly observed, fiercely poetic love letter to a modern generation of brown girls.“An acute study of those tender moments of becoming, this is an ode to girlhood, inheritance, and the good trouble the body yields.”—Raven Leilani, author of Luster**FINALIST: The New Amer...
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Gay Bar
Why We Went Out
2021
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NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER**NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY: The New York Times * NPR * Vogue * Gay Times * Artforum *“Gay Bar is an absolute tour de force.” –Maggie Nelson"Atherton Lin has a five-octave, Mariah Carey-esque range for discussing gay sex.” –New York Times Book Review**As gay bars continue to close at an alarming rate, a writer looks back to find out what’s being lost in this ...
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