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To After That (Toaf)
A warm-spirited elegy to an abandoned work, brilliantly comic and wryly contemplative, by one of the great artist-investigators of our time. Originally published in 2008 in the groundbreaking Atelos series, To After That (TOAF) introduced a new kind of writing--somewhere between criticism and memoir and philosophy--that Renee Gladman has continued to explore in books like Calamities and My Lesbian Novel. TOAF is a recuperative song, an effort to give space and life to an abandoned project, but it is also, itself, a beautiful meditation on process and distance and duration, and a reminder that time is the subject of any writing.
Book Details
- Publisher: Dorothy a Publishing Project
- Publish Date: Sep 17th, 2024
- Pages: 80
- Language: English
- Edition: undefined - undefined
- Dimensions: 6.80in - 5.40in - 0.40in - 0.20lb
- EAN: 9781948980258
- Categories: • American - General• Novel as Form• American - African American & Black
About the Author
Gladman, Renee: - Renee Gladman lives in Boston, Massachusettes, where she publishes Leon Works, a press for experimental fiction and cross-genre writing. Her books include NEWCOMER CAN'T SWIM (Kelsey Street Press, 2007), A PICTURE-FEELING (Roof Books, 2005), THE ACTIVIST (Krupskaya, 2003), JUICE (Kelsey Street Press, 2000), NOT RIGHT NOW (Second Story Books, 1998), and Arlem (Idiom Books, 1996). A novella Event Factory is forthcoming from Dorothy, a publishing project in fall 2010. She teaches at Brown University in the Program for Literary Arts.
Praise for this book
"Incredibly, Gladman pulls off a story about a failed piece of writing that doesn't feel self-indulgent. Instead, it's packed with wonderfully strange ideas (while writing After That, Gladman wondered if she was existing in the realm of fiction), and it builds to a clarifying conclusion about the relief of letting a project go. This is a marvel." --Publishers Weekly "Renee Gladman has always struck me as being a dreamer--she writes that way and the dreaming seems to construct the architecture of the world unfolding before our reading eyes." --Eileen Myles "Gladman manages to achieve an impossible balance between the intellectual rigor of an academic, the linguistic sensibility of a poet, and the probing logical fantasy of a visual artist." --Trevor Ketner, Kenyon Review "Reading Gladman, I sometimes feel I'm watching a mastermind manipulate a Rubik's Cube, except the goal isn't to solve it but to present every possible arrangement." --Ben Purkert, The Rumpus "Gladman pushes up against the boundaries of narrative while nestling comfortably within it. Her prose is vivid, meandering, and acute." --Publishers Weekly "TOAF is a slim little volume, but its pages swallow the world whole. If My Lesbian Novel is a book about a book coming into being, TOAF is a book about a book that never came to be. Gladman's books confront endings like lunar cycles, rebirth inherent on their face." --Erin Vachon, The Rumpus