Essayistic inquiries come together into a sustained meditation on writers and their works, on the spaces of reading and writing fiction, and how these spaces take shape inside a life.In A Horse at Night, Amina Cain contemplates how to be honest, open and free, as a person and a writer, even (and perhaps especially) during a time of great change. She moves elegantly through a personal canon of authors – including Marguerite Duras, Elena Ferrante and Annie Ernaux – and topics as timely and various as female friendships, neighbourhood coyotes, landscape painting and the politics of excess, to profound and joyous effect.An individual reckoning with the contemporary moment and a quietly brilliant contribution to the lineage of Virginia Woolf's A Room of One's Own or William H. Gass's On Being Blue, A Horse at Night is a virtuosic argument for – and beautiful demonstration of – the essential unity of writing and life.'An exceptional book, a work of depth and elegance, with Amina Cain's bright intelligence threaded into its very seams. An exquisite creation.' Doireann Ni Ghriofa
- 144 pages
- English
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Table of contents
- Praise
- Title Page
- Contents
- Without planning it, I wrote a diary of sorts
- I drove to the little shop when it was getting dark
- For years now, whenever I read a short story
- I recently read, and loved, Annie Ernaux’s
- In The Lost Daughter, when Leda goes alone
- Sometimes a title comes easily
- When I was a teenager in Ohio, I dreamed
- Coming back from near sleep, a painting
- When I began looking at paintings of nighttime
- This autumn I’ve been reading the diaries
- In the last year I’ve become fixated on
- Not long ago I reread Gladman’s Ana Patova
- As I write this my cat Trout whines loudly
- In The Frozen Thames, Helen Humphreys writes
- Finished NDiaye’s All My Friends
- In The Ravishing of Lol Stein, a friend
- Write into the winter, and the summer
- On my laptop are jpgs of paintings of women reading
- I don’t believe in perfection
- Coming back recently to zazen meditation
- I am reading an early novel by Rachel Cusk
- While thinking and writing about novels
- For a long time I’ve been thinking
- Works cited
- Acknowledgements
- About the Author
- Also by Amina Cain
- Copyright
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