Kate Briggs and Pip Adam with Danielle Dutton — 'The Long Form' & 'The New Animals' скачать в хорошем качестве

Kate Briggs and Pip Adam with Danielle Dutton — 'The Long Form' & 'The New Animals'

On October 7th, 2023, Third Place Books and partnering bookstores Thank You Books (Birmingham), Brazos Bookstore (Houston), and Community Bookstore (Brooklyn) celebrated the launch of Dorothy, a publishing project's two new books of the year—'The Long Form' by Kate Briggs and 'The New Animals' by Pip Adam. The authors were joined in conversation by Danielle Dutton, co-founder and editor of Dorothy. Spencer Ruchti of Third Place Books introduced the conversation. Kate Briggs is the winner of the Windham-Campbell Prize and author of the book-length essay on translation, 'This Little Art'. 'The Long Form' is her first novel. Pip Adam is the New Zealand author of five books, including 'The New Animals', which won the Jann Medlicott Acorn Prize for Fiction. About 'The Long Form' by Kate Briggs. . . From the award-winning author of the book-length essay 'This Little Art', a debut novel that reaches back to the start of the novel tradition and outward to the complexities of contemporary life. Helen and her young baby, Rose, are awake. It is first thing on a new morning. They move, they rest, they communicate; Rose feeds. Thoughts and associations travel far beyond the remit of the front room in their rented flat, which they pace, and which, alive with them, continually becomes new. Their delicate balance is interrupted by the delivery of A History of Tom Jones by Henry Fielding—a novel that describes itself, semi-seriously, as inventing the novel-form for the very first time. As the morning progresses, Helen starts reading it. Indirectly, and each in their own distinct ways, Helen and Rose start thinking about it: its claims to newness, its length, its essayistic digressions, its invitation to imagine old and new forms of life, writing, and experience. The Long Form, Windham Campbell Prize–winner Kate Briggs’s long-awaited debut fiction, unmakes and remakes the novel to meditate on very real social issues, from housing, to care-taking, to friendship, laying bare the settings and support structures that make durational forms of co-existence first thinkable, then possible. At once acrobatic and deeply attentive, The Long Form insists on the creativity inherent in everyday life, showing how the acts of social composition (living arrangements) are continuous with the acts of artistic composition (page arrangements). It is a brilliant novel of profound contrasts and productive co-dependencies, in which the small details of a day speak to the largest questions of form, responsibility, continuation, and love. About 'The New Animals' by Pip Adam. . . Winner of the 2018 Acorn Prize, New Zealand’s highest fiction award, Pip Adam’s The New Animals is a work of Modernist ambition and contemporary urgency. Set in the Auckland fashion scene in 2016, the story moves over the course of one night through the hopes, misapprehensions, resentments, and regrets of a small group of fashion workers divided by generation and class. The young and rich act like nothing can touch them; the tired Gen Xers feel forever adrift. They are caught up in the small dramas of their lives, while all around them the world is fast becoming unhabitable. Like a contemporary heir to Virginia Woolf’s To the Lighthouse, The New Animals is a brilliant and unforgettable dive beneath the surface of life, uncovering the common ground of humanity, as well as the common plight. KATE BRIGGS grew up in Somerset, UK, and lives and works in Rotterdam, NL, where she founded and co-runs the writing and publishing project “Short Pieces That Move.” She is the translator of two volumes of Roland Barthes’s lecture and seminar notes at the Collège de France: The Preparation of the Novel and How to Live Together, both published by Columbia University Press. The Long Form follows This Little Art, a narrative essay on the practice of translation. In 2021, Kate Briggs was awarded a Windham-Campbell Prize. (Photo credit: Chloe Briggs) PIP ADAM is the author of four novels—Audition; Nothing to See; The New Animals, which won the Jann Medlicott Acorn Prize for Fiction; and I’m Working on a Building—and the short story collection Everything We Hoped For, which won the NZSA Hubert Church Best First Book Award for Fiction in 2011. Pip makes the “Better off Read” podcast and lives in Wellington, New Zealand. (Photo credit: Rebecca McMillan) Danielle Dutton's latest book, Prairie, Dresses, Art, Other, will be out from Coffee House Press in April 2024. She is the co-founder and editor of Dorothy, a publishing project.