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Elisa Gabbert
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April 2008
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The Unreality of Memory: And Other Essays
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2020
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15 editions
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The Word Pretty
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2018
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2 editions
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Normal Distance
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2022
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2 editions
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Any Person Is the Only Self: Essays
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2024
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3 editions
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The Self Unstable
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2013
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4 editions
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The French Exit
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2010
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2 editions
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L' Heure Bleue
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2016
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3 editions
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That Tiny Insane Voluptuousness
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2008
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2 editions
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Thanks for Sending the Engine
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2007
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2 editions
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The Kind of Beauty That Has Nowhere to Go
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2013
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"Fantastic—can’t believe I waited so long to read this. Spookily prescient about covid with an undercurrent of intense anxiety; the quote on the back cover calling this “wildly fun” is insane as I read each essay feeling tense and terrified. But it’s "
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"This is a collection of essays about disasters, and how we (and specifically the author) process them - especially during this era where it often feels like the world is ending in a variety of ways. There are three sections, and while they aren't nam"
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The Unreality of Memory: And Other Essays:
"My second Gabbert collection, and I loved this one more than the first. An author I will continue to watch out for. She is never not witty and insightful."
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"it’s unreal how good this book is"
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“These seem to be real questions we're wrestling with - where do I focus my anxiety so that I can feel like a good citizen in an anxious society? We believe we need to worry about the right problems, even if we can't solve them.”
― The Unreality of Memory: And Other Essays
― The Unreality of Memory: And Other Essays
“Often, when something bad happens, I have a strange, instinctual desire for things to get even worse—I think of a terrible outcome and then wish for it. I recognize the pattern, but I don’t understand it. It’s as though my mind is running simulations and can’t help but prefer the most dramatic option—as though, in that eventuality, I could enjoy it from the outside.”
― The Unreality of Memory: And Other Essays
― The Unreality of Memory: And Other Essays
“As the French cultural theorist Paul Virilio famously said, “The invention of the ship was also the invention of the shipwreck.”
― The Unreality of Memory: And Other Essays
― The Unreality of Memory: And Other Essays
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