Laurie Stone's Everything Is Personal is a galvanic account of our era, a trumpet blare aimed at sleepwalkers. In essays and diary entries that are sharply observant, grieving and generous, Stone seeks links between 1968 and now, meditating with wit and complexity...A voice unlike any other, she's a fearless thinker in an age submerged in fear. --EMILY NUSSBAUM, The New Yorker

Upsetting the balance of the universe is a job description I would have liked," remarks the narrator in one of Stone's stories. The same can be said of Stone, with her acute and kinetic prose. Heartbreak, comedy, exuberance and nuance: they're all here and they're pure pleasure. --MARGO JEFFERSON, Pulitzer Prize winner and author of Negroland

An extraordinary work, remarkably and unflinchingly true to its author's powerful, instantly recognizable voice--full of wisdom and passion and fierce intelligence....There is great beauty in this brave book, right at the very heart of it. --MIKHAIL IOSSEL, author of Notes from Cyberground: Trumpland and My Old Soviet Feeling

Everything is Personal belongs on the shelf with Debord's Society of the Spectacle and Adorno's Minima Morialia, books that deliver great wisdom in rolling waves of epigrams....[Stone's] 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

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....Read Laurie Stone. Read this book. --DIANE SEUSS, author of Four-Legged Girl

Her thinking and feeling are smack dab in the middle of things, tuning into almost everything in our world, especially time. I've never considered the phrase 'patient urgency' until I read this book, and I'll definitely be moving forward in my life with this framework for criticism and living. --STEVEN DUNN, author of POTTED MEAT

Free and freeing, clear and bright, a cyclone of history written by an acutely observing eye, Everything is Personal makes radical social change and individual transformation seem not only necessary but inviting and funny. Laurie Stone has given us 'a place to live while the world learns to breathe again. --JOSEPH KECKLER, comic performer, opera singer, and author of Dragon at the Edge of a Flat World

There are many excellent essays here, but the one I'm most excited by is 'The Clock', which is admirably complicit, resistant to all manner of received wisdom, self-questioning, ferocious, and little short of revelatory. I am a besotted fan. --DAVID SHIELDS, author of Reality Hunger

Laurie Stone's exhilarating, unclassifiable book brings the stinging wit and ferocious political engagement of the feuilleton tradition of Joseph Roth into the age of the Social Media thread, with its built-in fluidity and openendedness, to brilliant effect. I can't remember when I last read anything as alive, alert, self-questioning and independent-minded as Everything is Personal. --JAMES LASDUN, author of The Fall Guy

[S]hows Stone's gifts as a critic....Fans of creative nonfiction will find Stone an animated guide to these disjointed times. --PUBLISHERS WEEKLY

[B]ooks like Streaming Now are essential to continue cultivating our consideration for ourselves and others...Stone gives herself and us readers space to think, complain, scorn, wonder, celebrate, and mourn. And that is exactly what we all need as we continue to recover, learn, and change. --GABBI CISNEROS, Porchlight Books

Each section of Streaming Now often tops or at least equals the previous one...If this tale had been written as fiction, it would be making one of those annual collections of best short stories. --BRANDON JUDELL, Medium

Even the shortest paragraphs in this book embody Stone's literary vitality and her palpable resistance to the weight of the pandemic. --STEPHANIE GEMMELL, Inklette

Laurie Stone's strange and otherworldly postcards are captivating, erudite, and moving. What is particularly startling is when you realize that the strange place she is writing from is the heart. We should all make such a trip and, thankfully, now we have this beautiful book as a guide. --IRIS SMYLES, author of Dating Tips for the Umemployed

Laurie Stone is the best writer I have encountered in quite a while. Her writing grabs me and in a sentence or two, I am in the middle of it. --JOHN LURIE, musician, painter, actor, director, and producer

Somewhere along the way one recognizes that a simple seeming collection of pensées is really the coherent exploration of a distinct and valuable cultural point of view, one that we might have lost contact with, and that we are lucky to still have. --VINCE PASSARO, author of Violence, Nudity, Adult Content

A witty, brutally honest meditation on how we live now, and most importantly, on the life worth living. Nothing is too small or too large for Laurie Stone's laser vision--her willingness to say the things we're not supposed to say or admit to doing the things we're not supposed to do--all of which will keep you reading this book in one mad dash. --GLORIA JACOBS, editor and activist

To my mind, Laurie Stone is a virtuousoi writer, and the "streaming" form--a kind of diary derived in part from blogs she has written on this site, particularly suits her genius. Her writing is full of attitude and has a defiant vibe I find completely compelling. Yes, she wants to entertain us--she is engaged in comedy--but its comedy of a most serious kind, like all real comedy. It's not schtick. Laurie means every word and the words ring true. Read this book! --ALEC MARSH, professor and author of Ezra Pound