Tonight I'm Someone Else: Essays

I had a real romance with this book. ùMiranda July A highly anticipated collection, from the writer Maggie Nelson has called, ôbracingly good...refreshing and welcome,ö that explores the myriad ways in which desire and commodification intersect. From graffiti gangs and Grand Theft Auto to sugar daddies, Schopenhauer, and a deadly game of Russian roulette, in these essays, Chelsea Hodson probes her own desires to examine where the physical and the proprietary collide. She asks what our privacy, our intimacy, and our own bodies are worth in the increasingly digital world of liking, linking, and sharing. Starting with HodsonÆs own work experience, which ranges from the mundane to the bizarreùincluding modeling and working on a NASA Mars missionù Hodson expands outward, looking at the ways in which the human will submits, whether in the marketplace or in a relationship. Both tender and jarring, this collection is relevant to anyone whoÆs ever searched for what the self is worth. HodsonÆs accumulation within each piece is purposeful, and her prose vivid, clear, and sometimes even shocking, as she explores the wonderful and strange forms of desire. Tonight I'm Someone Else is a fresh, poetic debut from an exciting emerging voice, in which Hodson asks, ôHow much can a body endure?ö And the resounding answer: "Almost everything."

• | Author: Chelsea Hodson
• | Publisher: Holt Paperbacks
• | Publication Date: Jun 05, 2018
• | Number of Pages: 208 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback/Biography & Autobiography
• | ISBN-10: 1250170192
• | ISBN-13: 9781250170194