num_pages: 136
description: A virtuosic meditation on literature and life in the tradition of Virginia Woolfs A Room of Ones Own and William H. Gasss On Being Blue.Without planning it I wrote a diary of sorts. Lightly. A diary of fiction. Or is that not what this is? 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 A Horse at Night: On Writing moves associatively through a personal canon of authorsincluding Marguerite Duras Elena Ferrante Renee Gladman and Virginia Woolfand topics as timely and various as female friendships zazen meditation neighborhood coyotes landscape painting book titles and the politics of excess. Amina Cains first nonfiction book is an individual reckoning with the contemporary moment and a quietly brilliant contribution to the lineage of Woolfs A Room of Ones Own or William H. Gasss On Being Blue books that are virtuosic arguments forand beautiful demonstrations ofthe essential unity of writing and life.
language: English
title: A Horse at Night: On Writing
publisher: Dorothy, a publishing project