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Blurring the boundaries between diary and essay, this book explores the break-up of a relationship, combining extracts from Scheynius’s diary – written in Swedish and translated by Saskia Vogel – with reflective essays written in English five years on.The book explores ideas about art and photography, sex and passion, the act of diary-making, destructive relationships, motherhood and home. Interspersed with black-and-white photographs, and written with the same unashamed and unfiltered honesty that defines Scheynius’s photography, 'Diary of an Ending' is an intimate hybrid of memoir and autofiction, a meditation on the passage of time and the transformative power of creativity. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN 9781913513757. 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This new edition contains new afterwords by James Dunn and the poet’s biographer Robert Dewhurst.Wieners creates a complex schizo-analysis of language, capitalism, incarceration and state power, while reflecting on unpopular themes of aging and loneliness in the gay world.Considered by many to be his poetical masterpiece, the book was met variously with indifference and outrage when it was published in 1975. In 1982, most remaining copies of the book were destroyed in the Fag Rag\/Good Gay Poets arson. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN 9798991298872. 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Radical, moving and clear-sighted, 'Replace Me' is at once a repudiation of myths of replacement and a celebration of the political possibilities inherent in embracing our own replaceability.‘A close cousin to Franco Berardi, Amber Husain conducts one of the most sweeping assessments to date of neoliberalism’s psychic toll. Beginning with the sad fact of expendability in entry-level work, she expands on Lauren Berlant’s concept of cruel optimism, diving deep into under-investigated histories to understand the roots of systemic unhappiness and the nature of desire itself.’ ­– Chris Kraus\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN 9781913512064. 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Peninsula Press. pb. 192 pages. 19.7 x 12.8 cm.\u003cbr\u003ein stock\u003c\/b\u003e","brand":"Peninsula Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47279429910758,"sku":"9781913512378","price":29.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0506\/2590\/4811\/files\/9781913512378.jpg?v=1789709382"},{"product_id":"9781913512446","title":"Long-Winded Lady, the","description":"\u003cb\u003eAuthor: Maeve Brennan\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e‘It was a weekday, an ordinary morning, business hours drawing near, but the evanescent appearance of the square said that anything might be about to happen – an operetta, a harlequinade, a pantomime, a fantasy…’ In these delightful, melancholy prose sketches Maeve Brennan goes in pursuit of the ordinary, taking us on a tour of the cheap hotels, unassuming restaurants, and crowded streets of New York City. Brennan presents herself as The Long-Winded Lady, solitary wanderer and wry observer of the human comedy. Whether she is riding the subway, failing to eat broccoli in a restaurant or watching lovers quarrel in Washington Square, Brennan captures the wavering spectacle of the metropolis with an uncanny precision that makes these slight essays at once hallucinatory and hyperreal. Originally written for The New Yorker between 1954 and 1981 and presented here in full with a new introduction by Sinéad Gleeson, these pieces reveal Maeve Brennan to be one of the twentieth century’s most accomplished documentarians of city life, and one of its finest essayists.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN 9781913512446. Peninsula Press. pb. 224 pages. 13.0 x 19.8 cm.\u003cbr\u003ein stock\u003c\/b\u003e","brand":"Peninsula Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47279430172902,"sku":"9781913512446","price":35.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0506\/2590\/4811\/files\/9781913512446.jpg?v=1789709382"},{"product_id":"9781913512507","title":"Body in the Library, the","description":"\u003cb\u003eAuthor: Graham Caveney\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Cancer, tumour, cancer. The words fizzle and dissolve into nothing like aspirin in water. I exist in the third person. The room is blue.\" When Graham Caveney was a child the word ‘cancer’ was unspeakable, only uttered in jokes told by people too frightened to say the word in any other context. Now the boy with perpetual nervousness is a fifty-something man, and the oncologist in front of him is saying words evacuated of all meaning: Inoperable. Incurable.In this startling and deeply moving memoir from one of the great chroniclers of British working-class life, Graham Caveney charts a year of disease from diagnosis to past ‘original sell-by-date’. Shot through with Northerness, tenderness, and Caveney’s trademark humour, 'The Body in the Library' reflects on an unfinished lifetime filled with books and with love.What’s it like to realise that the books on your shelf will remain unread? That the book you are writing will be your last – that you have become your own deadline?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN 9781913512507. 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Drawing on sources as disparate as graffiti, talk-show interviews, phone messages, and poetry, Conrad assembles a collage that celebrates while laughing with the cult of Elvis.A psychedelic road trip and a transcendental portrait of a man who changed music and America forever, seen through the eyes of those for whom he still lives.‘One of America’s most legendary living poets.’ Ocean Vuong‘[CAConrad] surges ahead in experiment and lasting power.’ Maggie Nelson\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN 9781913512545. Peninsula Press. pb. 160 pages. 12.9 x 19.8 cm.\u003cbr\u003ein stock\u003c\/b\u003e","brand":"Peninsula Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47279430631654,"sku":"9781913512545","price":29.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0506\/2590\/4811\/files\/9781913512545.jpg?v=1789709385"},{"product_id":"9781913512583","title":"Attention-Seeking Behaviour","description":"\u003cb\u003eAuthor: Aea Varfis-van Warmelo\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e‘I have never told anyone about this before. There is no way to prove that it happened, but why would I lie?’ Funny, sexy, and politically astute, 'Attention-Seeking Behaviour' is at once a personal confessional and a critical history of lie detection methods. Blending fiction and non-fiction – memoir, novel and essay – it wields confession shamelessly while positively embracing the proximity of literature and lying.The narrator of 'Attention-Seeking Behaviour' thinks you should know about the body she found in the park. She thinks you should know about her sex life, which is fulfilling and systematic. She thinks you should know that she is a writer, that she is ‘complex, creative and nasty’. But above all, she thinks you should know that she is a compulsive liar.Trying to break this habit for the sake of Normal Ben, an honest and uncomplicated man, she attempts a sincere reckoning with her long history of deception, its psychological roots and the terrible cost it has exacted on her relationships. But can we believe a word she says?AEA VARFIS-VAN WARMELO is a writer and poet, and an editor at Granta magazine. Her debut poetry pamphlet Intellectual Property was published by Goldsmiths Centre for Contemporary Art (2024). Attention-Seeking Behaviour is her first book.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN 9781913512583. Peninsula Press. hb. 192 pages. 19.8 x 2 x 12.9 cm.\u003cbr\u003ein stock\u003c\/b\u003e","brand":"Peninsula Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47279430893798,"sku":"9781913512583","price":45.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0506\/2590\/4811\/files\/9781913512583.jpg?v=1789709385"},{"product_id":"9781913512651","title":"On Breathing","description":"\u003cb\u003eAuthor: Jamieson Webster\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA beautiful, expansive essay about care, dependence, and what it means to breathe in an age of environmental catastrophe. A few moments after birth we begin to use our lungs for the first time. From then on, we must continue breathing for as long as we are alive. And although this mostly happens unconsciously, in a society plagued by anxiety, climate change, environmental racism, and illness, there are more and more instances that ‘teach us about the privilege that is breathing.’Why do we so easily forget the air that we breathe in common? What does it mean to breathe when the environment that sustains life now threatens it? And how can life continue to flourish under conditions that are increasingly toxic?To approach these questions, Jamieson Webster draws on psychoanalytic theory and reflects on her own experiences as an asthmatic teenager, a deep-sea diver, a palliative psychologist during covid, a psychoanalyst attentive to the somatic, and a new mother. The result is a compassionate and timely exploration of air and breathing as a way to undo the pervasive myth of the individual by considering our dependence on invisible systems, on one another, and the way we have violently neglected this important aspect of life.JAMIESON WEBSTER is a psychoanalyst in New York City. She is the author of several books, and a regular contributor to the New York Review of Books.‘When I read Jamieson Webster, I fall in love with life again. Her deep, calm, wild, and confronting intelligence leaves an essential human fingerprint on a time of fear and catastrophe. We all breathe within this book.’ – Deborah Levy\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN 9781913512651. Peninsula Press. pb. 256 pages. 20.3 x 13.1 cm.\u003cbr\u003ein stock\u003c\/b\u003e","brand":"Peninsula Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47279431123174,"sku":"9781913512651","price":35.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0506\/2590\/4811\/files\/9781913512651.jpg?v=1789709386"},{"product_id":"9781913512736","title":"Daddy Issues","description":"\u003cb\u003eAuthor: Katherine Angel\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOver the past decade, we have begun to talk more openly about the widespread harm inflicted by men on women. But little has been said about the fact that many of these men are also fathers. In Daddy Issues Katherine Angel draws on thinkers and writers from D. W. Winnicott to Valerie Solanas, from Virginia Woolf to Alison Bechdel, as she examines the place of fathers in contemporary culture.She tracks how the relationship between fathers and daughters is so often presented as a twisted romance, with the burden always falling on the daughter.Bold, challenging and nuanced, Daddy Issues asks how the mixture of love and hatred we feel towards our fathers can be turned into a relationship that is generative rather than destructive. If we are to effectively dismantle patriarchy, it is vital that fathers are kept on the hook.KATHERINE ANGEL is the author of Unmastered: A Book on Desire, Most Difficult to Tell (Penguin, 2012), and Tomorrow Sex Will Be Good Again (Verso, 2021). Her next book, Poor Freud, is forthcoming with Verso and Norton USA. She lives in London.New edition with a foreword by Helen Charman and an afterword by the author.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN 9781913512736. 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Combining memoir and essay, cultural criticism and literary experiment, it begins with a personal trauma – the account of how Emily LaBarge and her family were held hostage during the Christmas holidays of 2009 – but looks outward as much as inward for answers. ‘An incandescent book, a landmark in how to bring language to bear on the unspeakable.' – Olivia LaingSkilful and controlled, but also searching and febrile, this is a book that unsettles time and narrative, art and imagination, embodying in form the trauma that it describes. Taking in writers and artists from Vivian Gornick to Robert Burton, David Lynch to Sylvia Plath, LaBarge picks apart the structures of narrative forms to ask how it might be possible to tell the “Good Story,” and its aftermath, on its own terms.EMILY LABARGE is a Canadian writer based in London. Her essays and criticism have appeared in Granta, The London Review of Books, Artforum, Bookforum, Frieze, and The Paris Review, amongst others. 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In this nuanced analysis, Schulman disputes the traditional notion of solidarity as a simple union of equals, arguing that in a world of globalised power structures, solidarity requires collaboration of bystanders and conflicted perpetrators with the excluded and oppressed. Schulman examines a range of case studies, from the fight for abortion rights in post-Franco Spain, to NYC’s AIDS activism in the 1990s, to the current wave of protest movements against Israel’s genocide of the Palestinian people, and her own experience growing up as a queer female artist in male dominated culture industries. Reckoning with the successes and failures of these movements, she argues that action always comes at a cost, despite not always being effective. But without solidarity we are stuck with the status quo, and we lose any hope of progressive change.By turns challenging, inspiring, pragmatic, and poetic, 'The Fantasy and Necessity of Solidarity' provides a much-needed path for how we can work together towards justice now and for the future.‘This book will save lives. How many is up to us.’– Alexander CheeSARAH SCHULMAN is a novelist, playwright, screenwriter, nonfiction writer, and AIDS historian. Her books include The Gentrification of the Mind and Conflict Is Not Abuse. Her writing has appeared in The New Yorker, New York, Harper's Magazine, The Atlantic, The Nation, The New Republic, The New York Times, and The Guardian.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN 9781913512774. 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Peninsula Press. pb. 176 pages. 19.8  x 13.1 cm.\u003cbr\u003ein stock\u003c\/b\u003e","brand":"Peninsula Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47279431581926,"sku":"9781913512798","price":35.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0506\/2590\/4811\/files\/9781913512798.jpg?v=1789709389"},{"product_id":"9781913512859","title":"History of the Vertebrate, the","description":"\u003cb\u003eAuthor: Mar Garcia Puig\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOn a single day, Mar García Puig gives birth to twins and becomes elected to the Spanish Parliament as a member of the insurgent left-wing party Podemos. What might have been the best day of her life becomes the start of a terrifying ordeal; García Puig’s grip on reality begins to slip as she grapples with uncertainty, the weight of expectation, and misogyny in both of her new roles. At once intimate and epic, 'The History of the Vertebrate' is a searing account of postpartum madness.Moving between memory, culture, and the history of medicine, García Puig transforms her experience into a story about the countless women who have felt that sanity was leaving them, and about the patriarchal forces that have silenced them.In defiance of a culture that tells her the problem lies within, García Puig chooses to look outwards, examining the imbrication of madness and motherhood across centuries of science, myth, and politics while dissecting the ways in which women have been pathologised and banished from public life. MAR GARCÍA PUIG is an editor and author. From 2015 to 2023 she was a member of the Spanish Congress of Deputies for Podemos, where she served on the Culture Committee and the Equality Committee. Her books include The History of the Vertebrate and This Thing of Darkness.MARA FAYE LETHEM is a writer and translator from Catalan and Spanish. 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While progressives disdain his divisive politics, they have mostly failed to challenge meritocratic values that divide society into winners \u0026amp; losers. How do we truly escape our toxic political culture? In this essay, psychoanalyst and critic Josh Cohen suggests that the answer may lie in a notion of humility.Far from a sentimental moral virtue, humility may well be the most elusive, precarious, and indeed radical value of all, one which relies upon a full-hearted embrace of one’s inner loser. Enlisting the help of a cast of unlikely comrades – Thomas Bernhard, Franz Kafka, and Robert Walser – Cohen shows how we might move beyond a culture based on enforced positivity, resentment, and humiliation.‘With compassion, skill and verve, Josh Cohen eloquently dismantles societal and personal delusions about winning and losing. This is exactly the conversation we need to be having right now.’ – Deborah LevyAn essay about politics, humility, and loss.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN 9781999922344. Peninsula Press. pb. 128 pages. 16.4 x 11.2 cm.\u003cbr\u003ein stock\u003c\/b\u003e","brand":"Peninsula Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47279482732774,"sku":"9781999922344","price":16.5,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0506\/2590\/4811\/files\/9781999922344.jpg?v=1789710386"}],"url":"https:\/\/manic.com.au\/collections\/creative-non-fiction.oembed?page=2","provider":"Books at Manic","version":"1.0","type":"link"}