Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.
Who ponders the sock? This common object is something people tug on and take off daily with hardly a thought. Unraveling the garment's history, construction, and use, Kim Adrian's Sock reintroduces us to our own bodies-- vulnerable, bipedal, and flawed.
Sock reminds us that extraordinary secrets live in mundane material realities, and shows how this floppy, often smelly, sometimes holey piece of clothing, whether machine-made or hand-knit, can also serve as...
Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.
Within the recent explosion of creative nonfiction, a new type of form is quietly emerging, what Brenda Miller calls ""hermit crab essays"". The Shell Game is an anthology of these intriguing essays that borrow their structures from ordinary, everyday sources: a recipe, a crossword puzzle, a Craig's List ad.
Within the recent explosion of creative nonfiction, a new type of form is quietly emerging, what Brenda Miller calls ""hermit crab essays"". The Shell...
Clear-sighted, darkly comic, and tender, The Twenty-Seventh Letter of the Alphabet is about a daughter's struggle to face the Medusa of generational trauma without turning to stone. Kim Adrian tries to make peace with a troubled past by cataloguing memories, anecdotes, and bits of family lore in the form of a glossary.
Clear-sighted, darkly comic, and tender, The Twenty-Seventh Letter of the Alphabet is about a daughter's struggle to face the Medusa of generational t...
