{"product_id":"a-horse-at-night-on-writing-9781948980135","title":"A Horse at Night: On Writing","description":"\u003cb\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eA Horse at Night\u003c\/i\u003e is like light from a candle in the evening: intimate, pleasurable, full of wonder. It asks us to consider fiction as life and life as fiction. Amina Cain is our generous, gentle guide through an exquisite library. A truly beautiful book.\" --Ayşegül Savaş\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"I adore her work, and sensibility,\" writes Claire-Louise Bennett of Amina Cain; and Jenny Offill: \"Cain writes beautiful precise sentences about what it means to wander through this luminous world.\" Cain's unique wandering sensibility, her attention to the small and the surprising, finds a profound new expression in her first nonfiction book, a sustained meditation on writers and their work. Driven by primary questions of authenticity and freedom in the shadow of ecological and social collapse, Cain moves associatively through a personal canon of authors-- including Marguerite Duras, Elena Ferrante, Renee Gladman, and Virginia Woolf-- and topics as timely and various as female friendships, zazen meditation, neighborhood coyotes, landscape painting, book titles, and the politics of excess. \u003ci\u003eA Horse at Night: On Writing\u003c\/i\u003e is an intimate reckoning with the contemporary moment, and a quietly brilliant contribution to the lineage of Woolf's\u003ci\u003e A Room of One's Own\u003c\/i\u003e or Gass's \u003ci\u003eOn Being Blue\u003c\/i\u003e, books that are virtuosic arguments for--and beautiful demonstrations of--the essential unity of writing and life.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAmina Cain\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of the novel \u003ci\u003eIndelicacy\u003c\/i\u003e and two collections of short fiction, \u003ci\u003eCreature\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eI Go to Some Hollow\u003c\/i\u003e. Her essays and short stories have appeared in \u003ci\u003en+1\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Paris Review Daily\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eBOMB\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eFull Stop\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eVice\u003c\/i\u003e, the Believer Logger, and other places. She lives in Los Angeles.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Dorothy a Publishing Project","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50615345348882,"sku":"9781948980135","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_a6c3facd-d0c3-48bd-851b-33c991c59895.jpg?v=1732482973","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/a-horse-at-night-on-writing-9781948980135","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}