Any Person is the Only Self
Elisa Gabbert
Contagiously curious essays on reading, art, and the life of the mind, from the acclaimed author of The Unreality of Memory.
Who are we when we read? When we journal? Are we more ourselves alone or with friends? Right now or in memory? How does time transform us and the art we love?
In sixteen dazzling, expansive essays, the acclaimed essayist and poet Elisa Gabbert explores a life lived alongside books of all kinds: dog-eared and destroyed, cherished and discarded, classic and clichėd, familiar and profoundly new. She turns her witty, searching mind to the writers she admires, from Plath to Proust, and the themes that bind them―chance, freedom, envy, ambition, nostalgia, and happiness. She takes us to the strange edges of art and culture, from hair metal to surf movies to party fiction. Any Person Is the Only Self is a love letter to literature and to life, inviting us to think alongside one of our most thrilling and versatile critics.
Duration - 7h 34m.
Author - Elisa Gabbert.
Narrator - Elisa Gabbert.
Published Date - Thursday, 11 January 2024.
Copyright - © 2024 Elisa Gabbert ©.
Location:
United States
Description:
Contagiously curious essays on reading, art, and the life of the mind, from the acclaimed author of The Unreality of Memory. Who are we when we read? When we journal? Are we more ourselves alone or with friends? Right now or in memory? How does time transform us and the art we love? In sixteen dazzling, expansive essays, the acclaimed essayist and poet Elisa Gabbert explores a life lived alongside books of all kinds: dog-eared and destroyed, cherished and discarded, classic and clichėd, familiar and profoundly new. She turns her witty, searching mind to the writers she admires, from Plath to Proust, and the themes that bind them―chance, freedom, envy, ambition, nostalgia, and happiness. She takes us to the strange edges of art and culture, from hair metal to surf movies to party fiction. Any Person Is the Only Self is a love letter to literature and to life, inviting us to think alongside one of our most thrilling and versatile critics. Duration - 7h 34m. Author - Elisa Gabbert. Narrator - Elisa Gabbert. Published Date - Thursday, 11 January 2024. Copyright - © 2024 Elisa Gabbert ©.
Language:
English
Opening Credits
Duration:00:00:13
About the Author
Duration:00:00:31
Quote
Duration:00:00:20
On Recently Returned Books
Duration:00:19:23
The Stupid Classics Book Club
Duration:00:21:29
Weird Time in Frankenstein
Duration:00:16:58
Party Lit
Duration:00:17:50
Proust and the Joy of Suffering
Duration:00:20:22
On Jealousy
Duration:00:13:17
The Intolerable, I Guess
Duration:00:28:44
Against Completism
Duration:00:19:55
Second Selves
Duration:00:54:24
A Complicating Energy
Duration:00:32:35
Infinite Abundance on a Narrow Ledge
Duration:00:45:52
Insane Places
Duration:00:18:25
The Uncanny Child
Duration:00:20:15
Somethingness (or, Why Write?)
Duration:00:25:53
Nostalgia for a Less Innocent Time
Duration:00:47:51
Same River, Same Man
Duration:00:47:11
Acknowledgments
Duration:00:02:23
Closing Credits
Duration:00:00:39