{"product_id":"streaming-now-postcards-from-the-thing-that-is-happening-9781948340526","title":"Streaming Now: Postcards from the Thing That Is Happening","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eStreaming Now: Postcards from the Thing That Is Happening\u003c\/em\u003e is a collection of hybrid feminist narratives that perfectly captures the many paradoxes of the COVID-19 pandemic, contrasting the seemingly never-ended public catastrophes we experienced as a collective with the isolated lives we carried out in private.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eLonglisted for the 2023 PEN Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eShifting effortless between social commentary and memoir, glimpses of history and threads of fiction, Stone, a lifelong feminist and longtime contributor to the \u003cem\u003eVillage Voice\u003c\/em\u003e and NPR's \u003cem\u003eFresh Air\u003c\/em\u003e, unapologetically observes against the backdrop of a Zoom call the evolution of feminism over the years, the gendered sexual politics underlying Jeffrey Toobin's public disgrace, rage and hope on the heels of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg's death, and the way we continue to pot and maintain our plants amidst the broken narrative of our world's future. As Stone says, It's good this narrative has been broken. In the narrative that has been broken, people ignored the way so many things they wanted required the suffering of others.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn a time when most of us felt more alone than ever before, Laurie Stone's \u003cem\u003eStreaming Now: Postcards from the Thing That Is Happening\u003c\/em\u003e is a retroactive but no less timely reminder that we were less alone in our thoughts than we thought.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLaurie Stone\u003c\/strong\u003e is the author of \u003cem\u003eEverything is Personal: Notes on Now\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eMy Life as an Animal, Stories\u003c\/em\u003e. She has published numerous stories in such publications as \u003cem\u003en + 1\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eWaxwing\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eTin House\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eEvergreen Review\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eFence\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eOpen City\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThreepenny Review\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eCreative Nonfiction\u003c\/em\u003e. She lives in New York City.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Dottir Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50507658592530,"sku":"9781948340526","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_3cfde7d6-721a-4ba2-bb3b-d8be54468279.jpg?v=1730865361","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/streaming-now-postcards-from-the-thing-that-is-happening-9781948340526","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}