Astra 1: Ecstasy: Issue One (Astra: the International Magazine of Literature) - Softcover

Nadja Spiegelman

 
9781662619007: Astra 1: Ecstasy: Issue One (Astra: the International Magazine of Literature)

Synopsis

Astra Magazine is a brand new international literary magazine, an emerging must-read for anyone interested in the best new literature from around the world.
Astra Magazine will connect readers and writers from around the world - New York to Mexico City, Lagos to Berlin, Copenhagen to Singapore and beyond. We want to bring about a new, borderless, and vital mode of reading.
Astra is a magazine for our new moment, bringing us together while, the world over, we create new language for ourselves.
Issue No.1: Ecstasy explores many ways we experience ecstasy ― in pain and pleasure, through ourselves and others, through turmoil and peace. This issue collects writing that is engaged with the world, transcending distance and confinement through exuberance and excess.
Featuring thrilling new work from Mieko Kawakami, Catherine Lacey, Leslie Jamison, Fernanda Melchor, Terrance Hayes, Dorthe Nors, Kate Zambreno, Katharina Volckmer, Ada Limón, Solmaz Sharif, Jos Charles, Chinelo Okperanta, and many more.

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About the Author

Nadja Spiegelman is the author of the memoir I'm Supposed to Protect You From All This and several award-winning comics for children, as well as the co-editor of the 2016 project Resist! a free publication of women's comics and graphics. Previously the online editor of The Paris Review, she is now the editor-in-chief of a new international literary print quarterly, Astra Magazine.

From the Back Cover

Astra Magazine is the new literary magazine of the moment, a must-read for anyone interested in the most vital contemporary literature from around the world. The Ecstasy Issue contains work by Mieko Kawakami, Fernanda Melchor, Catherine Lacey, Leslie Jamison, Solmaz Sharif, Terrance Hayes, Don Mee Choi, Ada Limón, Sayaka Murata, and many more.

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