- 175 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
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About this book
The highly anticipated debut collection of autobiographical essays 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 Hodson's own work experience, which ranges from the mundane to the bizarreāincluding modeling and working on a NASA Mars missionāHodson 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 who's ever searched for what the self is worth.
Hodson's 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, "How much can a body endure?" And the resounding answer: "Almost everything."
Praise for Tonight I'm Someone Else
"Hodson's essays have such a sexy drama to themāand ultimately it's the romance of just getting through life; the passion that comes from being a wholly alert woman and living to tell about it. I had a real romance with this book." āMiranda July
"Hodson's writing styleĀ .Ā .Ā . offers a clear and strong point of viewĀ .Ā .Ā . This is overall a unique collection about being an artist and a woman in a world that doesn't always value either." ā Booklist
"Reading Hodson's work feels risky; it's breathtaking, both in its inherent exhilaration and also, often, because it's funnyĀ .Ā .Ā . But it also makes you feel connected to things, as if you are forging new relationships to the things and people in the world around you, uncovering new understandings about permanence, about intuition, about love and sex and lies and secrets and truth, about life." ā NYLON
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 Hodson's own work experience, which ranges from the mundane to the bizarreāincluding modeling and working on a NASA Mars missionāHodson 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 who's ever searched for what the self is worth.
Hodson's 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, "How much can a body endure?" And the resounding answer: "Almost everything."
Praise for Tonight I'm Someone Else
"Hodson's essays have such a sexy drama to themāand ultimately it's the romance of just getting through life; the passion that comes from being a wholly alert woman and living to tell about it. I had a real romance with this book." āMiranda July
"Hodson's writing styleĀ .Ā .Ā . offers a clear and strong point of viewĀ .Ā .Ā . This is overall a unique collection about being an artist and a woman in a world that doesn't always value either." ā Booklist
"Reading Hodson's work feels risky; it's breathtaking, both in its inherent exhilaration and also, often, because it's funnyĀ .Ā .Ā . But it also makes you feel connected to things, as if you are forging new relationships to the things and people in the world around you, uncovering new understandings about permanence, about intuition, about love and sex and lies and secrets and truth, about life." ā NYLON
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright Notice
- Acknowledgments
- Epigraph
- 1. Red Letters from a Red Planet
- 2. Simple Woman
- 3. Near Miss
- 4. The New Love
- 5. The End of Longing
- 6. Pity the Animal
- 7. The Id Speaks, Mid-Decision
- 8. Iām Only a Thousand Miles Away
- 9. Swollen and Victorious
- 10. Artist Statement
- 11. Halfway Out the Door
- 12. Second Row
- 13. Leaving Me
- 14. The Id Speaks, Mid-Transformation
- 15. Small Crimes
- 16. When I Turn
- Notes
- Also by Chelsea Hodson
- About the Author
- Newsletter Sign-up
- Contents
- Copyright