num_pages: 224
description: A highly anticipated collection from the writer Maggie Nelson has called bracingly goodrefreshing and welcome that explores the myriad ways in which desire and commodification intersect.From graffiti gangs and Grand Theft Auto to sugar daddies Schopenhauer and a deadly game of Russian roulette in these essays Chelsea Hodson probes her own desires to examine where the physical and the proprietary collide. She asks what our privacy our intimacy and our own bodies are worth in the increasingly digital world of liking linking and sharing.Starting with Hodsons own work experience which ranges from the mundane to the bizarreincluding modeling and working on a NASA Mars mission Hodson expands outward looking at the ways in which the human will submits whether in the marketplace or in a relationship. Both tender and jarring this collection is relevant to anyone whos ever searched for what the self is worth.Hodsons accumulation within each piece is purposeful and her prose vivid clear and sometimes even shocking as she explores the wonderful and strange forms of desire. This is a fresh poetic debut from an exciting emerging voice in which Hodson asks How much can a body endure? And the resounding answer: Almost everything.
language: English
title: Tonight I'm Someone Else: Essays
publisher: Holt Paperbacks