Everything is Personal: Notes on Now - Softcover

Stone, Laurie

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1732932824 ISBN 13: 9781732932821

Publisher: Scuppernong Editions, 2020

Synopsis

Everything is Personal, Notes on Now is a collage of hybrid narratives that begin with the stunning events of November 2016 and challenge Stone, a longtime feminist and writer for the Village Voice, to feel good when everything is bad. She travels to D.C. to bird-dog senators ahead of the hearings for Brett Kavanaugh, considers the pleasures and terrors of the #MeToo movement, and remembers her 25 years at the Voice after the announcement of its demise. Freely jumping between social commentary, criticism, memoir, and fiction, Stone reconsiders the legacy of Valerie Solanas and recalls the way that in 1968 the sense of power and hope made you feel it would always be 1968. The pieces are constructed the way dreams and films are: juxtaposing images, racing along with dolly shots, moving in for close-ups, and pulling back for a sweeping sense of time. Woven through the volume are chunks from Stone's Facebook posts called "The Clock" that read like tender and funny postcards written to everyone from a time that is unimaginable, even as it's being lived.

"Stone is engaging, sharp, funny throughout these pages but no matter how far she ranges, she holds onto the recognition that daily life in the US is being lived under a dark cloud. She makes the stakes very clear. Her Notes on Now are completely illuminating."

--Chris Kraus, author of I Love Dick, from the Introduction

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Review:

"To read Laurie Stone's Everything is Personal, Notes on Now is to read Laurie Stone, is to experience a present tense intimacy with a lusty, testy, ebullient, scintillating mind, a woman's mind..."

--Diane Seuss, author of Four-Legged Girl and Still Life with Two Dead Peacocks and a Girl

"Stone knows that in a world crowded with opinions, a thought can't just be good, it has to be elegant. Her powerful sentences smile at their own precision, they don't just make a social point but offer a model on how to think, how to think in this time."

--Michael Tolkin, author of The Player and cowriter of Escape at Dannemora.

"Everything Is Personal is a galvanic account of our era, a trumpet blare aimed at sleepwalkers... A voice unlike any other, she's a fearless thinker in an age submerged in fear."

--Emily Nussbaum, author of I Like to Watch

About this edition

• Publisher: Scuppernong Editions
• Publication date: 2020
• ISBN 10: 1732932824
• ISBN 13: 9781732932821
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 200